Finance Senior Manager – JAPAC Finance

Career Category

Finance

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Senior Manager – JAPAC Finance

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world.
 

The JAPAC Finance Senior Manager will lead a team of FP&A staff and Finance & Administration (F&A) staff based in Amgen India responsible for supporting JAPAC financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, consolidation, and ad-hoc projects. You will also support JAPAC finance and administration activities, including close support, financial controls, cash-flow forecasting, statutory and audit support, and accurate financial reporting. In this vital role, you will report to the Director of FP&A.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of FP&A staff and F&A staff for JAPAC based in Amgen India and serve as the primary point of contact between Amgen India FP&A and JAPAC FP&A and F&A teams.
• Lead planning-cycle activities for forecasts, actuals, budgets, long-range plans, quarterly business reviews, and leadership outlooks, including local data collection, consolidation, reasonableness checks, and commentary preparation.
• Coordinate regional forecasting and reporting through Excel-based templates and consolidation files; prepare accurate, timely outputs for regional and global stakeholders.
• Manage planning and reporting systems activities across the forecasting cycle, including template preparation and alignment, Anaplan inputs, Hyperion loading, and master-data maintenance.
• Develop and publish management reporting materials, including Power BI dashboards, weekly sales reporting, PowerPoint presentations, and components-of-growth reviews.
• Provide insightful financial analysis and commentary on business performance, growth drivers, investment trade-offs, forecast risks and opportunities, and market trends.
• Support budget coordination and expense management activities, including purchase orders, SPOC and non-PO accruals, actuals tracking, and OPEX and T&E monitoring.
• Support finance reviews of distributor claims, margins, free goods, royalties, profit-share arrangements, sales reconciliations, pricing set-up, contract-management activities, and related data validation.
• Drive standardization, automation, and continuous improvement of FP&A processes, templates, and reporting tools in collaboration with JAPAC, US, and global counterparts.
• Coordinate F&A close and reporting activities, including SPOC and non-PO accruals, review of prepayments and deposits, manual journal entries, payroll and non-payroll journal preparation, and local GAAP journal posting.
• Prepare and maintain monthly cash-flow forecasts, support intercompany payment documentation, cash accounting, bank reconciliations, intercompany bank transfers, and bank-signatory administration.
• Support transfer-pricing and related processes, including management-fee and transfer-pricing adjustment calculations, actual true-up validation, Business Travel Account (BTA) reconciliation, and Gross-To-Net (GTN) settlement review.
• Perform finance review of payments, support VAT-preparation data, monitor T&E in accordance with local guidance, and maintain strong controls over payment and expense-management activities.
• Prepare financial reporting packages and monthly and quarterly reconciliations between US GAAP and local GAAP, including trial-balance, income-statement, and balance-sheet analysis.
• Support statutory and internal audits, local government statistical and regulatory surveys, IICC testing, and timely resolution of audit findings and control issues.
• Maintain accurate supporting records, including fixed-asset registers, bank statements, vendor reconciliations, and documentation required for local statutory, tax, and finance processes.
• Ensure the quality, completeness, and timeliness of assigned F&A deliverables; identify opportunities to standardize, automate, and continuously improve processes and controls.
• Build trusted working relationships with finance, tax, treasury, controllership, and business stakeholders across JAPAC, US, and global teams.
• Escalate material risks, exceptions, and issues promptly to the JAPAC Finance Director, and communicate clearly and proactively with relevant stakeholders.
• Prioritize career development and mentoring of the Amgen India (JAPAC Finance) team.
• Ensure team deliverables are completed accurately and on time, with clear, proactive communication to JAPAC Finance and other global finance stakeholders.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients

Basic Qualifications:

• Chartered accountant, Cost Accountant, CPA or a Master’s degree in Economics, Finance or Business & Administration
• 12+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, G&A Finance, Technology Finance, Project Controls, or a related finance discipline.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry experience
• Experience managing teams and operating in a multiple time-zone environment
• Knowledge and understanding of financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, management reporting, consolidation, and quarter-close activities
• Strong analytical skills; ability to be decisive, build teams, and provide leadership
• Excellent discernment (e.g., knowledge of business drivers, finding solutions, and knowledge of accounting, finance, and other business areas)

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Big 4 and Fortune 500 FP&A experience
• Initiative-taker with excellent analytical and presentation skills
• Capable of building and maintaining complex financial models and management reporting tools
• Solid overall knowledge of financial systems and tools (e.g., SAP, Hyperion, Anaplan, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, Tableau)
• Solid understanding of forecasting, long-range planning, budgeting, business partnering, and variance analysis
• Proven ability to work effectively in ambiguous situations and team environment

Soft Skills:

• Analytical, interpersonal, team building, leadership, and conflict resolution skills
• Effective communication skills (both verbal and written), including the ability to interact with Amgen senior management effectively and confidentially
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully
• Collaborative, with a focus on achieving team goals

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

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We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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