Digital Finance BPA Manager
Novartis
5 - 10 years
Hyderabad
Posted: 01/08/2025
Job Description
Summary
lead the design, implementation, and optimization of SAP solutions. You will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that our SAP solutions effectively meet business requirements, enhance financial processes, and drive data-driven decision-making.
About the Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Primary POC: Act as the primary point of contact for SAP BPC/SAC solutions, owning the product backlog, prioritizing features, and driving the development and delivery of enhancements and updates
- Requirements Gathering: Collaborate closely with business users, finance teams, and stakeholders to elicit, document, and prioritize SAP requirements that align with financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting needs.
- Solution Design: Translate business requirements into comprehensive SAP BPC/SAC solutions, encompassing data models, reporting templates, financial planning models and consolidation processes.
- Technical Collaboration: Work closely with IT teams, SAP experts, and developers to
ensure the successful implementation and integration of SAP solutions, providing
clear guidance and fostering effective communication. - Change Management: Facilitate the adoption of new SAP BPC/SAC solutions by coordinating
training, communication, and support activities for end-users, addressing challenges and
concerns proactively. - Continuous Improvement: Monitor the performance of SAP BPC/SAC solutions, gather user
feedback, and drive continuous improvements to enhance system usability, efficiency,
and accuracy. - Access Management, Data Integrity and Governance: Ensure proper access
management, data quality and integrity within SAP BPC/SAC, establishing and enforcing data
governance standards and best practices. - Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks associated with SAP BPC/SAC processes,
controls, and data integrity, collaborating with relevant stakeholders to ensure
compliance. - Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of SAP BPC/SAC configurations,
processes, and enhancements, serving as a resource for both technical and nontechnical
stakeholders. - Vendor Management: Collaborate with external SAP consultants, vendors, and partners
to leverage expertise and optimize SAP BPC/SAC solutions.
Essential requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Information Systems, or a related field; Master's degree is a plus.
- 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or in a similar role with a strong focus on SAP BPC/SAC solutions.
- In-depth knowledge of SAP BPC & SAC functionalities, including financial planning, budgeting,
forecasting, and consolidation processes. - Strong understanding of financial concepts, processes, and reporting requirements
- Familiarity with SAP technologies, data integration, and reporting tools.
- Excellent communication skills to effectively bridge the gap between business and technical teams.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to troubleshoot issues, analyze data, and provide insights.
- Project management skills to lead SAP BPC implementation projects and coordinate teams.
- Change management expertise to drive user adoption and manage resistance to system changes.
- Problem-solving orientation with the ability to address challenges and find innovative solutions. Flexibility to adapt to evolving business needs and technology advancements
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
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About Company
Novartis is a leading global healthcare company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. It specializes in the research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of innovative pharmaceuticals. Formed in 1996 through the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz, Novartis focuses on areas such as oncology, neuroscience, immunology, cardiovascular diseases, and gene therapies.With a strong commitment to scientific innovation, Novartis invests heavily in R&D and collaborates with biotech companies and academic institutions worldwide. The company operates in over 140 countries and serves millions of patients globally. Novartis is also known for its efforts in access to medicine, using programs like Novartis Access and Novartis Foundation to support underserved populations.
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