Site Finance Head

Job Description Summary

At Novartis, we are reimagining medicine to improve and extend people's lives—and we need bold, curious, and purpose‑driven leaders to help us get there. Step into a pivotal leadership role where your insights directly shape strategic decisions and business outcomes. As a Site Finance Head, you will lead all BPA activities across your scope, delivering high‑impact financial insights and value‑driven analysis that empower senior leadership to make confident, informed decisions.

This is a unique opportunity to influence performance, steer financial strategy, and make a meaningful impact on patients' lives through your work.

• Lead site financial planning and reporting across GTx, Aseptic, and LMO platforms, ensuring timely delivery of accurate, insightful, and actionable financial information.
• Own budgeting and forecasting processes, including development of detailed plans and clear explanation of actual performance versus targets.
• Maintain early indicators, providing proactive visibility to financial risks, opportunities, and expected outcomes.
• Drive financial performance management through value‑added analysis across key areas, including operating income, FTEs, personnel costs, direct and indirect spend, inventory, and capital investments.
• Lead the development, validation, and maintenance of product cost standards according to policies, ensuring alignment with manufacturing processes, bill of materials, routing, and overhead structures; provide transparent variance analysis (standard vs. actual) to support performance management, inventory valuation, and decision‑making.
• Conduct advanced analytics (e.g., resource allocation, profitability, benchmarking) to identify improvement opportunities and define short and long‑term performance targets.
• Partner with functional teams to define annual services provided to TRD and translate into structured cost allocations reflected in service level agreements.
• Leverage AI tools to enhance productivity and decision‑making to improve accuracy, quality, and efficiency of deliverables.
• Lead, manage, and develop the BPA team, ensuring capability building and alignment to business priorities.
• Ensure full compliance with the Novartis Accounting Manual and Novartis Financial Controls Manual, maintaining strong financial governance and control standards.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field; CPA or MBA preferred.
• 10‑15 years of progressively responsible experience in manufacturing finance, including financial planning, product costing, and performance management.
• Strong expertise in SAP (S/4
  
  HANA preferred) and financial planning tools, with demonstrated ability to leverage systems to drive insights and process efficiency.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and projects in a fast‑paced, matrix organization, demonstrating agility and sound judgment.
• Advanced communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex financial information into clear, actionable insights and effectively present to senior leadership.

• Familiarity with data visualization tools and artificial intelligence‑driven analytics.

The salary for this position is expected to range between $160,300 and $297,700 per year. Your compensation will include a performance‑based cash incentive and, depending on the level of the role, eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards. US‑based eligible employees will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits, a 401(k) with company contribution and match, and a variety of other benefits.

In addition, employees are eligible for a generous time‑off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves.

The Novartis Group of Companies are Equal Opportunity Employers and take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual…