FP&A Lead - Maternity Cover

Job Description Summary

Owns and drives the end-to-end FP&A agenda in the market, including financial planning, closing and reporting, performance monitoring, and S&OP/integrated planning. Ensures high-quality, accurate, and timely financial insights to support decision-making, while maintaining compliance with global standards and continuously improving processes and systems. Leads and develops the FP&A team to strengthen business partnering, analytical capabilities, and performance culture.

Job Description

Your Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Own and drive the market financial planning process (LO, MYR, TGT, SP), ensuring forecast accuracy and alignment with global, regional, and cluster expectations.
Lead performance consolidation and variance analysis in close collaboration with the CFO.
Manage the monthly closing process and deliver high-quality financial reporting, dashboards, and management presentations.
Monitor financial performance through KPIs, providing actionable insights and ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
Lead the financial planning activities within the S&OP process, including Integrated Reconciliation and APO volume monetization at Gross and Net level.
Ensure compliance with global FP&A standards and drive continuous process improvement initiatives.
Leverage financial systems, reporting tools, and emerging technologies (including AI) to enhance analytical capabilities and decision-making.
Lead, coach, and develop the FP&A team, fostering a strong performance, business partnering, and continuous learning culture.

What you’ll bring to the role:
Essential Requirements:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
3+ years of experience in FP&A, Controlling, Financial Planning, or related Finance roles.
Fluent in Italian and English.

Solid experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and performance analysis.
Strong proficiency in Excel and Finance/ERP systems (SAP and BI tools are a plus).
Experience supporting business decision-making and participating in S&OP/Integrated Planning processes.
Proven people management and team development experience.
Strong analytical, stakeholder management, and business partnering skills.

Compensation Structure & Criteria:

Sandoz compensation is determined by job level, qualifications, niche skills, experience, and location within company salary ranges. Fully proficient and highly effective employees can expect a starting salary around market median, with those new to the level or with less functional depth at the lower end of the range and those with sustained superior or niche skills towards the higher end of the range. Internal equity and external market data inform our range placement. Annual salary reviews consider performance outcomes, market alignment, and business needs.

Why Sandoz?

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of good health.

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills, experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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Skills Desired

Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, AI Driven, Building Effective Teams, Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, Financial And Management Reporting, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Pmi (Post-Merger Integration), Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Understanding Value Drivers