Novartis Healthcare/BioTech

Lead - Business Planning & Analysis

Hyderabad, India Hybrid Full-time

Location: Hyderabad (Office)

Job Description Summary

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Ready to turn financial insight into meaningful business impact? In this senior individual-contributor role, you’ll lead Business Planning & Analysis activities across Digital, Data and IT Finance, partnering with senior leaders to shape decisions, strengthen financial performance and translate complex data into clear, actionable insights. You’ll bring a CFO mindset, taking end-to-end ownership of planning, forecasting and performance management while navigating complexity, influencing across functions and developing proposals and solutions with limited direction.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead Business Planning and Analysis activities, providing high-quality financial insights and decision support to business leaders.
  • Drive consistent implementation of financial planning processes, strategies and policies across the organisation.
  • Deliver timely management reporting, forecasts and financial analysis to support informed business decisions.
  • Lead detailed budgeting and forecasting to support global, regional and business planning.
  • Develop early-warning financial tracking to identify emerging risks, opportunities and performance trends.
  • Analyse expenses, cash flow, investments and project costs to identify opportunities to improve performance.
  • Partner with leadership on financial, cost and risk analysis, translating insights into corrective actions.
  • Deliver profitability, resource allocation and benchmarking analysis to shape short- and long-term priorities.
  • Provide transversal leadership across BPA workstreams, aligning stakeholders and driving outcomes through influence rather than formal people management.

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