Finance Manager

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.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. The FP&A Manager will support JAPAC financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, consolidation, and continuous-improvement initiatives through accurate, timely, and decision-useful finance deliverables. This role will report to the Senior Manager of JAPAC Finance.

This role serves as a strategic finance partner, advancing financial and related cross functional planning excellence, automation, and data-driven decision-making. The Finance Manager will strengthen forecasting accuracy, streamline reporting, and embed AI and technology-enabled solutions across finance and cross-functional teams.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Support the Senior Manager of JAPAC Finance as a key point of contact for Amgen India and JAPAC FP&A teams, coordinating day-to-day planning and reporting deliverables.
• Execute planning-cycle activities for forecasts, actuals, budgets, long-range plans, quarterly business reviews, and leadership outlooks, including data collection, consolidation, reasonableness checks, and commentary preparation.
• Maintain regional forecasting and reporting files, ensuring complete, accurate, and timely inputs to Excel-based templates and consolidation processes.
• Support planning and reporting systems activities across the forecasting cycle, including template preparation and alignment, Anaplan inputs, Hyperion loading, and master-data maintenance.
• Prepare management reporting materials, including Power BI dashboards, weekly sales reporting, PowerPoint presentations, and components-of-growth reviews.
• Analyze business performance and prepare clear financial commentary on 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.
• Perform finance reviews of distributor claims, margins, free goods, royalties, profit-share arrangements, sales reconciliations, pricing set-up, contract-management activities, and related data validation.
• Identify and implement opportunities to standardize, automate, and continuously improve FP&A processes, templates, reporting tools, and data quality.
• Build trusted working relationships with JAPAC, US, and global finance stakeholders; share knowledge and provide day-to-day support to colleagues as needed.
• Ensure assigned deliverables are completed accurately and on time, escalating issues promptly to the Senior Manager of FP&A and communicating clearly with stakeholders.

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients.

Basic Qualifications:

• Chartered accountant, Cost Accountant or a Master’s degree in Finance or Business & Administration with 8 to 12 years of accounting and/or finance  experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry experience
• Experience collaborating effectively across functions and multiple time zones
• Knowledge and understanding of financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, management reporting, consolidation, and quarter-close activities
• Strong expertise in financial modeling, scenario planning, and advanced analytics.
• High digital fluency, including familiarity with AI tools, automation platforms (RPA), and large data concept
• Experience with ERP/EPM/BI systems (e.g., SAPS4, Anaplan, Power BI, Tableau) and data-driven decision support.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate data into clear strategic insights.
• Strong project and change management skills in cross-functional, matrixed environments
• Strong attention to detail & ability to operate with a sense of urgency

Good To Have Skills:

• Experience working within a local affiliate in a global matrix organization.
• Strong understanding of commercial finance & analytics
• Familiarity with affiliate budgeting cycles (Plan, Forecast, LRS, Scenarios) and regional reporting requirements.
• Experience partnering closely with Business Unit leads and General Managers.
• Exposure to launch planning, lifecycle management, or portfolio re-prioritization at affiliate level.

Soft Skills:

• Analytical, interpersonal, collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain financial insights clearly to finance and business stakeholders
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative, accountability, and self-motivation
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully and meet demanding deadlines
• Collaborative, with a focus on achieving team goals

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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