Finance Sr Manager

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