• General Ledger (GL) Management; Review and approve the Journal Vouchers prepared by Middle Office or Back Office teams, provide support documentation, guidance on chart of accounts and additional posting Keys, performing Balance Sheet reconciliation on these GLs owned by the market and perform random reviews on trial balance.

• Audit Management; Drive the relationship with Internal/External auditors and manage the request of information ensuring timely compliance with requirements, dealing with internal departments and external parties to collect required evidence support, including AFS completion management.

• Tax Management; Manage the taxes calendar with different external parties and Group/Middle Office taxes team, properly review tax calculations prepared by 3rd party including but not limited to VAT, CIT, Provisional Taxes and drive the relation with SARS or another external agent for all matters related to AZ.

• Bank admin: Act as a main point of contact/system admin with Bankers, ensuring mandates are up to date, banking approvals and different authorizations.

• Financial Controls Framework: Complete financial controls related to local functions, support the standardization of controls/policies/governance by Middle Office.

• SOTC function: Accountable for SOTC process being held and Market/Distributor level ensuring sales are properly being registered in local systems and reported correctly, provide support and assistance to system administrator in case of system errors and drive the interface changes/updates, main point of contact with distributor on Astrazeneca behalf for AR management/Cash Collections & DSO.

• Finance PO management: Request PO creation manage the process for vendors related to finance function (Auditors, Bankers, Tax Specialists. Etc) Additionally perform checks on POs created by different functions and ownership of the governance process/Interacting with P2P, PO creators, Procurement Manager.

• Main point of Contact with Back Office (3rd Party): Drive relationship with 3rd party for transnational services based in India (P2P, SOTC, R2R, Master Data) Providing approvals/escalation point.

• Transfer Price Management: transfer prices update on SAP and different systems, dealing with transfer pricing team in order to provide/review data, collaborate with the different external parties for TP related reporting/issues.

• Business Strategy & Decision Support; supporting key business & investment decisions with solid skills in scoping customer requirements, analysing issues, developing options and enabling appropriate decision making based on strategic business need
• Business Performance; driving financial performance and business activity, to deliver and communicate performance and business planning submissions/reporting, and to advise senior management on key drivers. 
• Continuous Improvement, Coaching & Governance; supporting continuous improvement in Finance processes and capabilities and to lead financial risk management and financial governance in area of accountability.

• 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)
  • Assessing the relevant input required to support others during difficult business decisions
  • Negotiating and communicating effectively 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

R&D Business decisions to be supported, material in both value and impact, would include: Strategic change programmes, Investment propositions (including large scale capital programmes), Sourcing strategies and capacity decisions, Commercial and/or Procurement decisions,  Drug Project Milestones

• 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 financial planning cycle in area of accountability; setting stretching but attainable performance targets and incentives, aligned to strategy and operational plans,
  • Highlighting sensitivities & risks and delivering timely, accurate and granular reporting and commentary of [global] performance, linking business drivers to actual spend and forecast; 
  • Working with the Business to identify and drive through opportunities for efficiencies
  • Exploring needs with 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, able to analyse and interpret financial statements, understand complex company valuations and contribute to deal-related commercial analysis.
  • Preparing all presentations for key finance review meetings with EVPs in R&D Discovery, Development and Finance Function VP.
  • Working closely with Project/Capacity Managers to model and plan for volatile cost and resource demands]
• Continuous Improvement, Coaching & Governance
  • Identifying opportunities to improve working practices and processes in Finance and supporting their implementation 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
  • Coaching business analysts in their provision of support to finance planning and business cases

Measures

Delivery of the operating unit and functional scorecard

Deliver of the operating unit’s performance and planning submissions and reporting requirements.

Feedback from finance networks and business customers

Quality of business cases and decision support materials

Timely, accurate and insightful performance reporting

Conformance with key process deliverables and timelines

Date Posted

Closing Date

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