At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.
The Commercial Finance Lead, ANZ is a pivotal member of the ANZ Leadership Team, acting as the strategic business partner to the General Manager and the in-market Commercial Organization. In this role, the Commercial Finance Lead is responsible for Financial Planning and Analysis (“FP&A”), while deeply embedded in strategic decision support, resource allocation, and business transformations.
The Commercial Finance Lead works with a high-performing finance team within the market and above-market and may act as a dotted line leader to members of matrixed finance teams (e.g., Controllership, Business Controls Function, Order to Cash). In addition, the Commercial Finance Lead is expected to drive strong and productive relationships with centralized finance functions, such as the FP&A CoE in Hyderabad, India, and the Commercial Finance HQ teams and collaborate across functions to shape the market’s commercial strategy, drive performance, and unlock value. This is a role for a visionary finance leader who thrives in complexity, influences without authority, and communicates effectively to bring clarity, actionable insights and risk management to every business conversation.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Business Partnership
Serve as a trusted advisor to the General Manager and market Commercial Leadership Team.
Provide financial and non-financial insights/analysis to support strategic decisions across all therapeutic areas, functions and the local market (for the entire BMS portfolio).
Drive resource allocation aligned with company priorities and analytics.
Financial Leadership
Lead Commercial Finance function with direct and indirect team members within the market and the centralized locations from which Finance and FP&A capabilities are delivered.
Partner closely with other functions that enable service delivery to the Commercial team, including Statutory Accounting and Tax, Order to Cash, Internal Controls, Supply Chain, BI&T.
Own all financial planning and performance management processes, including budgets, projections, period end closes and variance analysis, financial presentations to senior management (i.e. Regional Commercial Leads).
Identify risks and opportunities, and partner with the Commercial leadership in the design of mitigation or acceleration plans.
Understand local and macro business and healthcare dynamics to enable translation of market insights into actionable financial strategies.
Drive innovation and adoption of AI to enhance ability to generate data driven insights and automation.
Talent & Team Leadership
Build and inspire a high-performing, matrixed, finance team with strong business acumen, analytical capabilities, and communication skills.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and integrity.
Develop future finance leaders through coaching, feedback, and stretch opportunities.
Cross-Functional Influence
Represent Finance in cross-functional initiatives, Business Development transactions, and Transformation projects.
Collaborate and influence Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Legal, HR, and Supply to drive business outcomes.
Actively contribute to regional and global finance objectives/initiatives.
External stakeholder management including alliance partners, key customers, and payers to administer government rebates or other obligations.
Qualifications & Experience
10+ years of progressive finance experience in multinational organizations, along with CPA or equivalent qualifications.
Preference for Pharma, life sciences and/or healthcare industry experience; consideration given to other industries.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive strategic decisions.
Strong business acumen required (brands/market/access).
Strong command of financial planning, analysis, modeling, and reporting.
Proven ability to thrive in matrix organizations and cross-functional leadership.
Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.
How We Work
Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.
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R1606502 : Commercial Finance Lead - ANZ
