Sr. Associate I, Business Planning & Analysis

Overview

Prepare the company's budgeting and forecasting process, analyze consolidated financial data, and provide business analysis and insight to management to support informed decision-making.

What you'll do

• Manage the planning process with a high degree of accuracy: Long Range Planning, Budget, and Forecasting.
• Proactively advise on early warnings and opportunities to supported finance and business teams.
• Track actual results against established objectives and highlight root cause events of variances.
• Drive existing management reporting.
• Analyze financial results, distill and synthesize issues, and communicate key messages to supported finance and business teams to enable corrective actions as necessary.
• Directly contribute to achievement of Alcon financial objectives (Sales, Profit and Cash Flow) through financial analysis supporting operational decision making.
• Participate in ad-hoc projects and ad hoc analysis as assigned.
• Use financial systems (ASPIRE, APMR, SAP, etc.) disciplined to manage and perform analytical analysis of financial results.
• Develop, deploy and maintain innovative decision support tools and technologies that enhance the depth, breadth, speed and efficiency of decision support capabilities.
• Liaise with the country FRA team to analyze key balance sheet accounts and provide insights on open items.
• Visit the market at an agreed frequency with country finance to understand market dynamics for effective financial support.
• Deliver assigned projects as per the project charter with positive customer feedback.
• Comply with the Alcon accounting manual and financial control manual, to the extent applicable to accounting and reporting activities.
• Submit quality and timely Monthly / Quarterly Business Results, Budget, and Latest Forecast.
• Achieve forecasting accuracy within agreed parameters.
• Engage with key stakeholders across geographies (e.g. APAC, Europe, GEM, China, Japan and LATAM).

Details

• Location: Bangalore.
• Stakeholders include BPA, Country HoFs, and Country Commercial team leaders; functions include S&OP, Pricing, and IMG.
• Financial responsibility of approximately $$$ Mio across 2 countries and the region.