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At Bristol Myers Squibb, we’re creating innovative medicines for patients who are fighting serious diseases. We’re also nurturing our own team with inspiring work and challenging career options. No matter our role, each of us contributes. And that makes all the difference.

The Regional Controller will play a pivotal role in supporting the Global Financial Services deliverables. This role will be responsible for managing and directing all financial operations across several markets in the Region, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and providing strategic financial guidance for the Region. The Regional Controller will lead a team of 7-9 direct reports located across the markets, and actively participate in various activities including:

• Overseeing accounting operations, financial reporting, internal controls, and compliance with local and international accounting standards and corporate policies.
• Maintaining accurate financial records, analysing financial performance, and supporting decision-making processes.
• Supporting Finance Transformation projects and leading processes standardization and simplification to maximize efficiencies.
• Collaborating and engaging with key finance and other stakeholders and leaders to support business and financial reporting requirements.
• Leading the development and execution of the strategy, governance, and end-to-end processes, ensuring compliance with all local laws and regulations.
• Developing and leading a high-performance organization, cultivating a culture of collaboration, customer centricity and continuous improvement, supporting the teams’ development plans.
• Maintaining a sound internal controls environment, taking action to mitigate control risks.

Successful candidates will possess excellent leadership skills and ability to gain a clear understanding of the business dynamics in each market, collaborate in a cross functional structure, and to inspire and motivate team members to deliver exceptional results.  

A minimum of 15 years of experience is required, with 7+ years in financial management leadership roles, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry.

The position will be based in the BMS’s Hyderabad location (expected 80% in-person) and will require about 10% travel, including internationally.

Key Responsibilities and Major Duties:

Financial Management / Reporting activities

• Lead financial reporting processes across the Region to ensure compliance with local and international accounting standards, local regulations and BMS Corporate Policies.
• Manage month/quarter/year-end close processes, including journal entries, accruals and account reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting.
• Work in close coordination with local markets, BPO, Hyderabad Hub and the Legal Entity and Statutory CoE to prepare financial statements.
• Provide insightful financial analysis and variance explanations to senior management, highlighting key performance indicators and trends, to support decision-making.
• Establish and maintain effective internal controls to safeguard company assets and ensure accuracy in financial reporting.
• Coordinate and support internal/external audits, including collaborating with auditors and BMS Tax CoE, addressing inquiries, and resolving audit findings; provide necessary documentation and explanations to ensure a smooth audit process.

Performance Excellence

• Support the Finance of the Future transformation for the Region including the successful execution of the geolocation and centralization strategies, including processes outsourcing.
• Lead innovation, process improvements and standardization to ensure global process and reporting frameworks are harmonized and simplified.
• Design and track key performance indicators establishing ambitious performance objectives; design strong strategies and execution plans to achieve them.
• Articulate material risks and opportunities and take an active role in designing and executing mitigation or contingency plans.

Team Leadership and Culture

• Develop and lead a high-performance, multi-national teams proficient in BMS systems and policies; enable continuous learning & growth experiences for individuals.
• Responsible for department budget and headcount for the region
• Cultivate a culture of collaboration, innovation, customer centricity and performance excellence to maximize business impact.

Supervisory Responsibility (List job titles of positions that report directly or indirectly to this position and indicate nature of relationship):

Direct reports:

• 7-9 direct reports based across markets.
• Total organization of ~15 people, based across markets, once fully implemented.

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.

BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

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