Novartis India
Novartis India | Senior Financial Analyst, Business Planning & Analysis
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Job Highlights
Responsibilities
- You’ll act as an important link between Finance and Information Technology, supporting critical planning, closing and day-to-day operations while helping solve system and data challenges.
- You’ll build on your hands-on SAP Business Planning and Consolidation expertise while developing your capabilities in SAP Analytics Cloud as our planning environment evolves.
- With future rollouts ahead, this is an opportunity to grow your technical expertise, broaden your impact and help shape how Finance works across the organization.
- Act as a key link between Finance and Information Technology, supporting effective day-to-day planning system operations.
- Prepare budgets, forecasts and variance analyses, translating financial performance into clear, actionable business insights.
- Support end-to-end month-end close checks, planning submissions and validation activities to ensure smooth business operations.
- Coordinate with Information Technology and cross-functional teams to investigate and resolve system, data and integration issues.
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders during planning cycles, close activities and incidents, driving timely resolution and follow-through.
- Translate business needs into effective planning solutions, defining clear requirements, priorities and expected outcomes.
- Test and validate system enhancements and changes, supporting successful deployment and business readiness.
Skills
- Hands-on experience with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, supporting planning, closing and operational processes.
- Strong knowledge of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and related Finance processes.
- Ability to analyze complex data flows, system integrations and dependencies to identify and resolve issues.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with a techno-functional mindset across Finance and technology.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills, working effectively across Finance, technology and diverse user groups.
- Knowledge or experience of SAP Analytics Cloud, with an interest in building deeper expertise as the planning environment evolves.
- Familiarity with emerging artificial intelligence capabilities and AI-enabled Finance tools, including Microsoft Copilot.
- Understanding, Planning Analysis, Problem Solving, Process Optimization, Stakeholder Influence.
About the company
Novartis
Novartis was created in 1996 when two Swiss companies, Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz, merged; the oldest of its predecessors, Geigy, was founded in Basel in 1758. Still headquartered in Basel, the group has narrowed its focus in recent years, spinning off Alcon in 2019 and Sandoz in October 2023, and now concentrates on innovative medicines in cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases, immunology, neuroscience and oncology. Its shares trade on the SIX Swiss Exchange, with ADRs on the NYSE. Novartis has been in India since 1947. Its Indian company is Novartis Healthcare Private Limited, and the Novartis Corporate Center in Hyderabad houses development, operations and finance teams that work for the group globally.
Novartis's finance roles in India are concentrated in Hyderabad, where teams handle business planning and analysis and digital finance for the group. Recent openings include a senior financial analyst in business planning and analysis and a manager in digital finance. Postings ask for a qualified Chartered Accountant or an MBA in Finance, one also accepts an MBA in Analytics or Systems, and at least two years of relevant finance experience is mentioned.
