Associate Director FP&A

Location: Telangana (Sandoz)

Job Description Summary

Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally. Join us, the future is ours to shape!

The Associate Director FP&A, provides end-to-end financial leadership across the Generics value chain, serving as the trusted finance business partner for portfolio management, BD&L initiatives, and strategic projects. The role drives value creation through insightful financial analysis, robust business partnering, and data-driven decision support, requiring strong financial modeling, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills. The scope will focus on Gx, but will provide business analytics across all global commercial platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Long-Term Strategy & Portfolio Finance

Drive long-term portfolio value by supporting strategy development, business case analytics, and platform-level planning. Lead financial assessments across the pipeline lifecycle, contributing to asset selection, ROI optimization, GPC decision-making, and commercialization reviews to support informed investment and portfolio prioritization decisions.

Business Cases structures & valuation

Drive the financial assessment and execution of BD&L opportunities by leading valuation, due diligence, deal structuring, and scenario-based financial modeling. Provide data-driven insights and risk analyses that inform negotiations, optimize deal terms, and support sound investment decisions.

Planning and Reporting

Lead Generics Platform performance management, planning, and reporting processes, providing financial insights and recommendations through analysis of business performance across regions, segments, molecules, products, and markets.

Lead financial performance management of BD&L activities through robust planning, tracking, KPI development, and reporting. Leverage analytics and lessons learned to improve investment effectiveness, strengthen financial assessments, and drive continuous value creation across the Generics Platform.

S&OP, Supply and Demand Finance

Supports platform commercial and supply chain functions on short/mid-term and long-term financial implications of the 3 year regional demand planning (APO). Support APO analysis versus various scenarios, including APO dollarization dashboards. Provides financial support for LTDCP activities

Business Partnering

Provide platform-level analytics to support decision-making and cross-functional alignment with End 2 End perspective. Provide in-depth knowledge of the business and work cross functional with all needed stakeholders: financial (e.g. tax, treasury, accounting, funds flow, ESO, STO, SGD, etc.) and business (e.g. BD&L, Platformer, wider CCO, STO, Regions, etc.)

Governance, Compliance, and Control

Ensure strong financial governance, full compliance and adherence to internal controls and audit requirements.

Key Performance Indicators/Measures of Success

• Drive BU target net sales, maximize EV
• Increasing GX Pipeline Value, decisions on right assets
• High quality business cases, strong BD stakeholder fedback
• Reporting accuracy, consistency and compliance