## [Group Head - Int Finance CoE](/req-10087691-group-head-int-finance-coe "Group Head - Int Finance CoE")
Job ID REQ-10087691
Sep 24, 2026
LOC_IN
### About the Role
Key Requirements:
- Strategic Business Partnership: Partner with country BPA team to support strategy execution and business priorities. Provide financial insights and recommendations to optimize investments, resource allocation, and profitability.
- Financial Planning & Analysis: Support budgeting, forecasting, latest outlooks, strategic plans, and month-end reviews. Deliver comprehensive analyses of actuals versus plan, forecast, and prior year performance. Drive understanding of key business drivers, risks, opportunities, and performance trends.
- Performance Management & Reporting: Establish standardized KPI frameworks and business performance dashboards. Provide insightful management reporting to leadership teams.
- CoE Leadership & Capability Building: Lead, coach, and develop a diverse team of finance professionals and foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and innovation. Drive standardization, simplification, and harmonization of finance processes across markets. Build organizational capabilities in analytics, automation, and business partnering.
- Data, Analytics & Digital Transformation: Champion automation and AI-enabled solutions to improve finance processes and decision support. Drive development of self-service reporting and advanced analytics capabilities.
- Ensure high-quality master data governance and scalable reporting solutions. Leverage technologies such as Power BI, Power Query, Power Apps, GenAI, and digital finance tools to enhance productivity and insights.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Data & Digital, and Global BPA teams. Align regional and local financial processes with global standards.
- Support organizational transformation and change management initiatives. Facilitate knowledge sharing and best-practice adoption across the international organization.
Essential Requirements:
- Professional qualification required (ACCA/CIMA/CPA/CA/MBA Finance, or equivalent).
- 10 + years of experience in FP&A, BPA, Finance Business Partnering, or Commercial Finance.
- Proven leadership experience managing global or regional finance teams. Experience supporting Global functions within a complex multinational environment.
- Strong track record in strategic planning, forecasting, performance management, and business partnering.
- Strong knowledge of financial planning and reporting processes with expertise in Excel, Power BI, Power Query, and reporting technologies. Knowledge of SAP, BPC is a plus.
- Experience with automation, digital finance solutions, and AI-enabled analytics. Strong understanding of resource allocation and investment governance methodologies.
Desirable Requirements:
- Influence strategic decisions through data-driven financial insights.
- Build a best-in-class BPA CoE delivering scalable and efficient finance services.
- Drive operational excellence through standardization and automation.
- Develop a highly engaged, high-performing finance organization that supports International growth and transformation.
### Role Requirements
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Division DIV_FI
Business Unit Finance
Location LOC_IN
Site Hyderabad (Office)
Company / Legal Entity IN10 (FCRS = IN010) Novartis Healthcare Private Limited
Functional Area FCT_FN
Job Type Full time
Employment Type Regular
Shift Work No
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Job ID REQ-10087691
### Group Head - Int Finance CoE
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