Strategic Finance & Analytics Lead

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Job Description

Sandoz is a global market leader in Biosimilar and Generics medicine, a market leader in a sector is helped pioneer. Our Vision is to be the world’s leading and most valued generic and biosimilar medicine company.

We are pursuing access to medicine goals in two areas:

• ensuring responsible access to critical antibiotics which is seen as the backbone of modern medicine, and 
• democratizing access to biologic therapies through healthy competition

As a Strategic Finance & Analytics Lead you will support Sandoz’s senior finance and strategy leadership in driving data-driven decision-making, portfolio value creation and long-term financial performance. This role combines strong corporate finance expertise, strategic thinking and advanced analytics capabilities to deliver high-quality insights across portfolio strategy, capital allocation, M&A and performance management.

To design, develop and implement automation solutions using Power Automate, Power Query, VBA, etc. to streamline business processes, improve operational efficiency and minimize manual intervention while ensuring accuracy and compliance.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

 Corporate Strategy & Portfolio Decision Support

• Support corporate and portfolio strategy initiatives across generics, biosimilars, and mature brands.

• Analyze strategic scenarios related to portfolio optimization, market entry/exit, footprint decisions, and value-creation initiatives.

• Translate complex business questions into structured analytical frameworks and financial assessments.

M&A, Partnerships & Capital Allocation

• Support M&A, divestment, and partnership evaluations including valuation, scenario analysis, and business cases.

• Assess capital allocation trade-offs and returns across strategic initiatives.

• Collaborate with Business Development, Finance, Tax, and Legal stakeholders.

Corporate Finance & Financial Analysis

• Build advanced financial models (DCF, scenario analysis, cash flow, working capital).

• Analyze P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow drivers.

• Link financial performance to operational and strategic levers.

• Develop Financial models to support business decisions and strategic initiatives.

Data Analytics & Advanced Excel

• Act as an advanced Excel and finance analytics expert.

• Build scalable, transparent, and decision-ready analytical models.

• Develop standardized templates and analytical tools across Finance and Strategy.

• Automate recurring reporting task ending using Power query, Copilot, macros to improve efficiency and reduce manual efforts.

• Design and implement RPA workflows using Microsoft Power Automate to streamline business processes, integrate systems and reduce manual intervention

• Develop automated flows for data extraction, approval workflows and report generation across Excel, SharePoint and outlook.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner with Finance, Corporate Strategy, FP&A, Data & Tools, Commercial, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain teams.

• Communicate insights clearly to senior stakeholders.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define KPIs and translate business requirement into analytical output.
   

What you'll bring to the role

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, Economics, Business, Engineering, or related field.

• 5–8+ years of experience in corporate finance, strategy, M&A, or analytics roles.

• Strong corporate finance, valuation, and Excel modeling expertise.

• Experience in pharma, healthcare, or regulated industries preferred.

• Technical expertise in VBA, Power Query, CoPilot, RPA, or other tools that support process automation.

What You'll Receive

Sandoz compensation is determined by job level, qualifications, niche skills, experience, and location within company salary ranges. Fully proficient and highly effective employees can expect a starting salary around market median, with those new to the level or with less functional depth at the lower end of the range and those with sustained superior or niche skills towards the higher end of the range. Internal equity and external market data inform our range placement. Annual salary reviews consider performance outcomes, market alignment, and business needs.

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!

Join us!

Commitment To Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.

The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.

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Skills Desired

Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, AI Driven, Compliance And Controls, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, Employee Engagement, Financial And Management, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Reporting, Understanding Value Drivers

Global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines, operating as an independent company spun off from Novartis. Based in Basel.

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