Senior Manager, T&G Finance (m/f/d)

Job Description Summary

The Senior Manager, T&G Finance plays a key role in supporting the financial aspects of the company’s transformation and growth agenda, with financial oversight and value assurance for major restructuring and transformation programmes. As the dedicated finance business partner for ESG and Strategy, the role provides financial support for selected strategic projects, target setting, forecasting, performance management, investment assessment, and management reporting. The role partners with functional leaders to connect Transformation, Strategic and ESG priorities with financial outcomes, evaluate trade-offs, identify risks and opportunities, and assists with resource allocation to the initiatives that create the greatest sustainable value. It also promotes financial rigour, effective governance, and continuous improvement across the Transformation and Growth function.

Job Description

Job Description:

Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally. Join us, the future is ours to shape!

Your Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Monitor transformation programme performance, including costs, savings, value delivery, milestones, and forecast accuracy; escalate material deviations and recommend corrective actions.
• Provide regular financial performance reporting, variance analysis, and forward-looking insights on costs, headcount, investments, benefits, risks, and opportunities.
• Act as the primary finance business partner for the Transformation, ESG and Strategy functions, building trusted relationships and providing proactive, decision-relevant financial advice.
• Lead the annual target-setting, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes for the broader Transformation and Growth function.
• Translate strategic priorities, ESG commitments, and operating plans into clear financial assumptions, resource requirements, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Develop, review, and challenge business cases, including scenario modelling, sensitivity analysis, NPV, ROIC, payback, and other relevant value measures.
• Support prioritisation and resource-allocation decisions by assessing strategic fit, affordability, execution risk, financial impact, and expected business or stakeholder value.
• Partner with ESG stakeholders to evaluate the financial implications of sustainability commitments, regulatory requirements, ESG data and reporting needs, and value-creation initiatives.
• Support the development and tracking of ESG KPIs and connect non-financial performance indicators to financial outcomes, risks, investment needs, and long-term value.
• Partner with Strategy to support strategic planning, market and competitor analysis, scenario development, portfolio choices, and financial assessments for senior leadership discussions.
• Prepare clear, concise financial materials, insights, and recommendations for senior leadership and relevant governance forums.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews of transformation, ESG, and strategic initiatives to compare actual outcomes with approved plans and capture lessons learned.
• Ensure compliance with financial governance, internal controls, Management Authorization Limits, and applicable approval requirements.
• Coordinate with FP&A, Accounting, ESG Reporting, Tax, Treasury, Procurement, and other relevant teams to ensure consistent assumptions, reliable data, and effective execution.
• Drive standardisation, automation, and continuous improvement of planning, reporting, and performance-management processes.
• Perform the required Business Planning and Analysis activities for the Transformation and Growth function and provide ad hoc financial analysis and support.

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field; MBA or relevant professional certification is a plus.
• 6–8 years of progressive experience in finance, FP&A, business partnering, strategic finance, controlling, or a similar analytical role.
• Demonstrated experience in budgeting, forecasting, performance management, business-case development, and senior-management reporting.
• Strong financial modelling, project management, analytical, and problem-solving skills with a high level of attention to detail.
• Experience supporting transformation, ESG, sustainability, corporate strategy, or strategic planning activities is preferred.
• Ability to translate complex strategic and non-financial topics into clear financial implications and actionable recommendations.
• Strong communication, presentation, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively.
• Ability to work collaboratively across functions and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, global, and matrixed environment.
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, financial planning and reporting tools, and project-tracking tools.
• Experience in life sciences, healthcare, or another dynamic and regulated industry is a plus.

As part of your application, please submit your current CV as well as proof of your highest educational qualification (e.g., diploma, master’s degree, doctorate). Additional documents such as employment references may be uploaded optionally but are not mandatory.

Compensation Structure & Criteria: 

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. 

• Job location: Holzkirchen, Germany
• Starting pay range: EUR 83,200 - 154,400 ​
• Variable compensation: 15% performance-based bonus
• Additional benefits include: 30 vacation days per year (in full time), 1.200€ vacation payment (in full time), €40/month in capital-forming benefits (in full time), company pension, flex-hybrid working 50% per week in the office, access to our learning & development platforms Skillsoft & Learnlight, Access to our employee share program “OurShare”
• Pay frequency: Monthly
• Expected weekly working hours: 40 hours
• Contract type: full time​

Why Sandoz?

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of good health.

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people 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 careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported! 

Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster. 

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, Building Effective Teams, Capital Allocation, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, Financial And Management Reporting, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Pmi (Post-Merger Integration), Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Understanding Value Drivers