Lead Consultant - FP&A Product Analyst

Job Title: Lead Consultant - FP&A Product Analyst

Career Level: E

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to redefine an industry and change lives? Join us as a Lead Consultant - FP&A Product Analyst at a world-leading pharmaceutical company headquartered in the United Kingdom, operating in over 100 countries. Based in Chennai, you'll be part of the GITC BA Team, bringing your broad functional knowledge and technical expertise in FP&A applications like Oracle Hyperion/EPM or SAP SAC Planning. Your experience with FI and CO models in SAP will be invaluable as you help transform our ability to develop life-changing medicines.

Accountabilities:

As an FP&A Analyst, you'll drive projects from design to deployment, ensuring seamless integration between business processes, technical solutions, and data objects. You'll facilitate workshops to gather and map business requirements, perform detailed analyses, and collaborate with technical teams to translate these into effective solutions. Working closely with architects, you'll define optimal solutions that improve business value, identify areas for improvement, and demonstrate new technologies to enhance efficiency.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Good understanding of business processes in the life sciences/pharmaceutical domain.
• Ability to understand business requirements from business users.
• Professional experience as a Business Analyst preferred.
• Experience working with applications supporting FP&A and/or Finance and Controlling.
• Main liaison between business and technical application teams.
• Collaborate to establish the technical vision and analyze gaps between business requirements and system capabilities.
• Manage testing cycles (test plan, test scripts, UAT, etc.).
• Mapping current processes and the to-be.
• Guide and support business users.
• Experience of successfully using business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change.
• Exposure is essential to highly customized Finance application environments and working on interfaces between Finance and Non-Finance systems.
• Very good understanding of integration of Oracle/SAP SAC planning modules and end-to-end business processes.
• Ability to work in large and globally diverse/distributed teams.
• Superb communication and interpersonal skills.
• Well versed in English. Excellent spoken and written skills.
• Willingness to work in shifts and Working from Office.
• Proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Experience working in a Globally distributed team.
• At least 8 to 10 years of desired experience in SAP Lead, Business Analyst
• Lead, or Oracle EPM/Hyperion Consultant or SAP FICO/SAC Consultant roles.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Awareness about SAP S4 FI, CO and SAC, Agile and JIRA.
• Engagement, communication, and customer management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills.
• Preferred SAP FICO/SAC / Hana Certified.
• Education Background: Commerce/Engineering Graduate or Postgraduate, preferably looking for CA & CMA

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we spark bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, our work directly impacts patients by redefining our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak by combining innovative science with leading digital technology platforms. With a passion for data, analytics, AI, machine learning, and more, we drive cross-company change to disrupt the entire industry. Here, you'll find countless opportunities to innovate, take ownership, and explore new solutions in a dynamic environment.

Ready to make a meaningful impact? Apply now and be part of our journey!