Senior Manager I, Japan FP&A

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 I, FP&A Country Lead is a high-calibre FP&A professional within MR COE, responsible for the end-to-end FP&A consolidation, performance management, financial storytelling, and business partnering

This role is ideally suited to a high-potential finance professional with strong FP&A fundamentals, growing leadership capability, and the commercial curiosity and technical rigour to manage a complex, multi-country, multi-currency portfolio.

• Exceptional expertise in financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and financial modelling
• Expertise across the full P&L — revenue through operating profit — across markets with different commercial models and regulatory environments
• Commercially savvy leader with a deep understanding of the business landscape, market / product trends, revenue/P&L forecasting
• Expert ability to translate complex multi-market financial dynamics into a story that a business leader can act on. Able to go deep on the detail and also able to stay at the headline.
• 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 liaison, build and encourage commercial finance partnerships across the team and other business units ensuring alignment with overall goals and driving performance improvements.
• Actively using and advocating for AI and automation tools in the team's work
• Expert at the complete people management cycle for direct reports spanning across goals, performance feedback, developmental feedback, performance management, and career advocacy
• Successful candidates will possess excellent leadership skills, inspiring and motivating team members to deliver exceptional results.
• Enables adoption of new ways of working across the team and the wider organization/ finance community — with change management instinct

A minimum of 8-10 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:

The SM I manages a direct team of 2-3 team members, each supporting day-to-day execution across defined markets. The SM I role is expected to provide guidance, coaching, and performance support to the team — helping ensure the FP&A function delivers with accuracy, timeliness, stakeholder value, and continuous improvement across the assigned market clusters.

FP&A Monthly & Quarterly Performance Reviews

• Guide the team in producing performance analyses that go beyond variance reports /numbers to understand what is driving the variance and what it means for the rest of the year
• Review and challenge performance narratives before they reach the Finance Directors of the markets, Head of Finance of the country
• Support the development of a consolidated performance narrative by bringing together market inputs into a clear story for Finance Directors and country finance leadership
• Understand the commercial context behind the financials well enough to ask the right questions and challenge the right assumptions

Strategic Business Partnering & Planning

• Coordinate the country budget cycle across the team — supporting the planning calendar, clarifying responsibilities, aligning on quality expectations, and tracking the consolidated timeline
• Guide the team in working with their country finance heads to build credible, well-supported business plans — plans that reflect commercial context, trends, volume assumptions, pricing dynamics, investment plans, and cost trajectories and targets from HQ
• Help the team bring commercial insight into country finance conversations — using evidence to assess assumptions, connect financial performance to business drivers, and support country teams in understanding financial implications
• Develop the team's commercial acumen — each team member should understand the commercial model of their markets well enough to connect financial performance to business drivers; they're not just reading financial statements, they're interpreting the business
• Contribute to consistent analytical approaches across market clusters — including scenario analysis, sensitivity modelling, and driver-based performance review — so the team can apply practical tools more effectively

Operational & Process Excellence, standardization and improvement

• Support Associate Director APAC and Director, FP&A MR COE, who owns FP&A MR COE for Ex-US for BMS
• Review team outputs — market performance narratives, planning submissions, consolidated performance dashboards /packs
• Set and maintain quality standards across all five market clusters and build a culture of accuracy
• Support efficiency improvements across the team's workflows by identifying manual or low-value activities and working with the team to simplify processes where possible
• Support the planning calendar by helping define milestones and owners across the team, monitoring progress, and escalating risks where needed
• Participate in COE governance forums — represent the team's perspective in Eiffel reviews, planning calendar discussions, and cross-COE process improvement conversations
• Collaborate actively with AD APAC — share process improvements, align on planning standards and global assumptions, and contribute to building a strong EX-US MR COE team focused on business partnering
• Solicit feedback from business, internal customers, both operationally and regionally, to determine the best response to continually improve process performance

Relationship management

• Interacts with OPS COE team for all the markets
• Provides clear direction and day-to-day leadership to help the team stay aligned on FP&A priorities for the market
• Shares leading practices and learning with other Hub sub-tower teams
• Collaborates across Hub sub-towers to drive process standardization and innovation
• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with Executive Director – GBO and HYD Hub FP&A Lead, Associate Director APAC, Director Ex-US MR COE and with Director – FP&A OPS COE
• Assists in recruiting, hiring, and retaining of strong local team members
• Identifies and manages training and upskilling of local team members

Risk management

• Articulates material risks and opportunities and takes an active role supporting MR COE in designing and executing response or contingency plans

We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

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