Senior Manager II - FP&A Opex Planning Ops

Job description

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. The Senior Manager II – FP&A, Operating Expense (OpEx) Planning & Analysis – OPS COE for BMS will be a highly collaborative Finance business partner. This exceptional leader will act as a "player-coach," overseeing and supporting execution of FP&A activities for the market focused OpEx team in BMS's Hyderabad Hub and demonstrate the following attributes: • Exceptional expertise in financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and financial modelling • Deep understanding of the business landscape, cost drivers, spend trends, OpEx forecasting, and industry dynamics in the market • Outstanding ability to forge strong partnerships with fellow Hub team members and in-market Finance colleagues to provide high quality services in a timely fashion • Open communication and cooperation to ensure the FP&A Hub in Hyderabad remains an integral part of the local FP&A teams, aligned to broader vision and strategy, and contributes to the overall success of the Finance function and BMS • Act as a key liaison between finance and other business units ensuring alignment with overall goals and driving performance improvements. • Serves as a member of the OPS COE Innovation Council, championing digital transformation, automation, and AI-enabled solutions across the FP&A function. • (INS) • (EPM) Successful candidates will possess excellent leadership skills, inspiring and motivating team members to deliver exceptional results. A minimum of 10-14 years of experience is required. The position will be based in BMS's Hyderabad Location (expected 50% in-person) with minimal travel expected. Key Responsibilities and Major Duties: FP&A activities • Leads team and supports execution of Finance Planning & Analysis / OpEx Planning for Regional and MR COE consumption • Shall serve as day-to-day OpEx forecasting contact for MR COE FP&A team • Leads a team that builds and reviews budget and projections for operating expense planning across all cost centers and markets • Analyzes discretionary and non-discretionary spend, cost center performance, and drives accrual and reclassification reviews • Provides effective analyses to clearly highlight key spend trends / variances and rationale • Prepares presentations for budget & projection reviews; updates OpEx forecast templates as needed • Prepares analysis of monthly actual OpEx variances vs. budget / projection in alignment with standard framework and templates • Active involvement in driving right adoption of the spend planning and forecasting tools. Liaise with relevant teams to ensure information accuracy for all regions. • Business partnering and provide financial insights and support to help MR COE have right discussions with the business partners on cost management • Manages and executes special projects, ad-hoc analysis to ensure highly effective outcomes Process standardization and improvement • Support Director, FP&A Operations, who owns FP&A Operations process globally for BMS • Support the development and execution of a global strategy for policies, processes, and technologies • Define and establish consistent end to end process, KPIs and targets and intervene accordingly to drive results improvement • Collaborate with data owners / stewards to align on process and data issues • Propose forecasting improvement projects with a focus on delivering key business outcomes • Develop the business case for process improvement decisions, and tracks actuals against the plan to validate execution and improve future plans • Participating in process governance • Identify, design and incorporate industry leading practices into standard operations within the Hyderabad Hub necessary to identify, and raise / resolve issues involving tradeoffs, especially around cost, quality, and customer service • Maintain a culture of continuous improvement at all levels of the organization and foster a business-oriented culture; continuously monitor the needs of the business • Solicit feedback from internal customers, both operationally and regionally, to determine the best response to continually improve process performance and year-over-year cost reductions • Ensure and continually validate operating procedures are established and documented to support execution, and are maintained to align with process changes Digital, technology and innovation • Serves as an active member of the OPS COE Innovation Council, identifying, prioritizing, and driving digital, automation, and AI initiatives within the tower and across the Hub • Designs, builds, and deploys AI agents and generative-AI enabled workflows to automate recurring FP&A tasks such as variance commentary, data validation, and report generation • Develops and maintains interactive dashboards and self-service reporting using Power BI (or equivalent BI tools) to deliver real-time financial insights to stakeholders • Leverages automation and low-code / no-code tools (e.g., Power Automate, Alteryx, Python) to streamline data preparation, reconciliation, and forecasting processes • Partners with Digital, Data & Technology teams to translate business requirements into scalable, governed technical solutions • Promotes data literacy and upskills the team on emerging analytics and AI tools, embedding a culture of continuous digital innovation Relationship management and teaming • Interacts with MR COE team for all the markets • Serves as an inspirational and engagin