Senior Manager, Finance and Digitization

Overview

Lead assigned digitization, process redesign and contracting initiatives within the Commercial Finance and Strategic Global Sourcing (SGS) modernization portfolio, owning quality assurance, quality control and SOX/internal control integrity across the digitization portfolio.

What you'll do

• Lead assigned initiatives from business case through implementation, maintaining the plan, milestones, owners, dependencies and status reporting
• Build and defend the financial case for each initiative, covering hard savings, cost avoidance, working capital and margin impact, using defensible baselines
• Baseline, track and report the KPI set defined by Finance, Sourcing and Commercial leadership; escalate off-track initiatives and recommend corrective action or reset
• Perform current-state process analysis across sourcing and sourcing finance, documenting handoffs, cycle times, controls and effort, and identify work to retire, consolidate or automate
• Quantify the cost of manual workarounds, duplicated effort and fragmented systems, and model the headcount and cost-structure impact of the target state
• Design target-state processes and operating procedures with clear before/after cost, cycle-time and quality measures, and support adoption and change management through go-live
• Own the QA/QC framework for the digitization portfolio, defining test plans, acceptance criteria, data validation and reconciliation routines, and post-implementation reviews, and provide sign-off before processes or systems move to production
• Ensure every process redesign, automation and system migration preserves or strengthens SOX coverage, redesigning key controls, updating control narratives and risk-control matrices, and securing agreement from Controllership, Internal Audit and external audit
• Partner with Controllership, Internal Audit and IT General Controls owners to maintain segregation of duties, system access, change management and audit evidence standards
• Establish ongoing control monitoring and exception reporting for automated and digitized processes, including data integrity and reconciliation checks
• Maintain process, control and system documentation to a standard that withstands internal and external audit, and support auditor walkthroughs and testing requests
• Support the design and stand-up of the SGS contract digitization capability, covering intake, authoring, approval, execution, repository and downstream contract data usage
• Assist in developing and rolling out SGS contracting standards, templates, playbooks and delegation-of-authority guidelines in partnership with category management
• Analyze contract and sourcing data to surface value leakage, off-contract spend, expiring agreements and terms that constrain commercial objectives
• Partner with technology, sourcing, commercial and operations teams to translate business requirements into system and workflow solutions, and support testing, deployment and user enablement
• Prepare business cases, benefits-realization reporting and decision materials for the enterprise digitization governance steering committee
• Build and maintain reporting, dashboards and models that track initiative benefits from commitment through realization in the P&L
• Establish and maintain continuous-improvement routines so gains are sustained after an initiative closes
• Act as key point of contact between Commercial Finance and SGS on assigned initiatives, resolving issues and unblocking cross-functional work
• Provide day-to-day direction, review and coaching to analysts supporting assigned initiatives
• Perform related duties as assigned

What you'll need

• Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Supply Chain, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Normally a minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible related experience across finance, sourcing/procurement, transformation or operational excellence
• Proficiency in English (equivalent to CEFR B2 or IELTS equivalent)
• Ability to work a partial US time zone shift with 4 hours of overlap with Eastern Time Zone
• Strong commercial finance capability: business case construction, baselining, benefits tracking and variance analysis
• Working knowledge of SOX 404, internal control design and IT General Controls (ITGC) as applied to finance systems and automated processes
• Experience with QA/QC methodology, including test planning, UAT, data validation and post-implementation review
• Ability to implement processes resulting in satisfactory audit practices and to work directly with internal and external auditors
• Demonstrated ability to challenge established processes constructively
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint; proficiency in Microsoft Suite
• Ability to influence and drive outcomes in a matrixed environment without direct authority
• Project management skills; ability to run multiple concurrent initiatives to committed milestones
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing, including preparing materials for senior leadership
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills, with attention to detail
• Experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams and working across multiple locations, including shared services

Nice to have

• Experience delivering technology-enabled process change
• MBA, CPA or equivalent advanced credential
• Working knowledge of contract lifecycle management, sourcing/procurement platforms or workflow automation tools
• Working knowledge of SAP and related finance or sourcing systems
• Experience with data visualization and reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau or equivalent)
• Process mapping, root cause analysis and continuous improvement methodology (Lean, Six Sigma or equivalent)
• Knowledge of the US pharmaceutical distribution industry or another regulated industry

Details

• Location: Pune, India
• Full-time employment
• Affiliated company: Cencora Business Services India Private Limited