Associate Director FP&A Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd.

Business Strategy & Decision Support:
Working proactively with the business to understand future financial information needs and producing efficient solutions to meet these needs (Business Case Development, Benefits tracking, KPIs etc).
Effective communication across teams and business units and with external parties to achieve a positive outcome, encouraging others to demonstrate flexibility when considering options and assessing business impact.
Being actively involved in review and development of short & long-term strategy in area of accountability and maintaining an up-to-date understanding of all developments which may affect the organisation s operations and policies and proactively advising customers of all relevant matters to achieve business requirements and objectives.

Business Performance:
Having joint accountability with the business for the accuracy of forecasts and, using a good understanding of the business model and financial drivers, to challenge and influence the key cost drivers.
Developing reliable operational and financial forecasts ensuring resources are allocated to maximise value creation for AZ.
Leading the local / regional financial planning cycle in area of accountability; setting stretch but achievable performance targets, aligned with strategy and operational plans.
Highlighting opportunities & risks and delivering timely, accurate and granular reporting and commentary on performance, linking business drivers to actual spend and forecast.
Leading on technical forecast of cash, DSO and stock.
Proactively driving efficiencies including seeking cross functional process solutions.
Exploring needs of internal customers and suppliers and utilising this information to improve business results showing significant commercial and business acumen.
Post deal management on agreements in area of accountability, ability to analyse and interpret financial statements, understand complex company valuations and contribution to deal-related commercial analysis.
Preparation of all presentations for key business and finance review meetings.
Working closely with Project / Capacity Managers to model and plan for volatile cost and resource demands.

Continuous Improvement, Governance and Coaching:
Initiating changes to improve working practices and processes in Finance and communicating these amongst the Finance Business Partnering network.
Communicating governance and compliance standards and statutory regulations to non-specialists in a way that is understandable and relevant and relays the risk of commercial decisions effectively.
Leading insightful and proactive risk management processes to ensure the organisation s regulations, rules and processes are adhered to, highlighting areas of concern and promoting continuous improvement in the robustness of the processes, sharing best practice across the business.
Developing the professional capability of the Finance team and the financial understanding of non-finance managers
Manage key finance processes.
Manage cycle financial processes like month closing, budgeting, monthly reporting.