Senior Manager I, Japan FP&A

Job Summary

The Senior Manager I, FP&A Country Lead is a high-calibre FP&A professional within MR COE, responsible for the end-to-end FP&A consolidation, performance management, financial storytelling, and business partnering.

This role is ideally suited to a high-potential finance professional with strong FP&A fundamentals, growing leadership capability, and the commercial curiosity and technical rigour to manage a complex, multi-country, multi-currency portfolio.

Experience

A minimum of 8-10 years of experience is required.

Location

The position will be based in BMSs Hyderabad Location (expected 50% in-person) with minimal travel expected.

Key Responsibilities and Major Duties

The SM I manages a direct team of 2-3 team members, each supporting day-to-day execution across defined markets. The SM I role is expected to provide guidance, coaching, and performance support to the team - helping ensure the FP&A function delivers with accuracy, timeliness, stakeholder value, and continuous improvement across the assigned market clusters.

FP&A Monthly & Quarterly Performance Reviews

• Guide the team in producing performance analyses that go beyond variance reports /numbers to understand what is driving the variance and what it means for the rest of the year
• Review and challenge performance narratives before they reach the Finance Directors of the markets, Head of Finance of the country
• Support the development of a consolidated performance narrative by bringing together market inputs into a clear story for Finance Directors and country finance leadership
• Understand the commercial context behind the financials well enough to ask the right questions and challenge the right assumptions

Strategic Business Partnering & Planning

• Coordinate the country budget cycle across the team - supporting the planning calendar, clarifying responsibilities, aligning on quality expectations, and tracking the consolidated timeline
• Guide the team in working with their country finance heads to build credible, well-supported business plans - plans that reflect commercial context, trends, volume assumptions, pricing dynamics, investment plans, and cost trajectories and targets from HQ
• Help the team bring commercial insight into country finance conversations - using evidence to assess assumptions, connect financial performance to business drivers, and support country teams in understanding financial implications
• Develop the teams commercial acumen - each team member should understand the commercial model of their markets well enough to connect financial performance to business drivers; theyre not just reading financial statements, theyre interpreting the business
• Contribute to consistent analytical approaches across market clusters - including scenario analysis, sensitivity modelling, and driver-based performance review - so the team can apply practical tools more effectively

Operational & Process Excellence, standardization and improvement

• Support Associate Director APAC and Director, FP&A MR COE, who owns FP&A MR COE for Ex-US for BMS
• Review team outputs - market performance narratives, planning submissions, consolidated performance dashboards /packs
• Set and maintain quality standards across all five market clusters and build a culture of accuracy
• Support efficiency improvements across the teams workflows by identifying manual or low-value activities and working with the team to simplify processes where possible
• Support the planning calendar by helping define milestones and owners across the team, monitoring progress, and escalating risks where needed
• Participate in COE governance forums - represent the teams perspective in Eiffel reviews, planning calendar discussions, and cross-COE process improvement conversations
• Collaborate actively with AD APAC - share process improvements, align on planning standards and global assumptions, and contribute to building a strong EX-US MR COE team focused on business partnering
• Solicit feedback from business, internal customers, both operationally and regionally, to determine the best response to continually improve process performance

Relationship management

• Interacts with OPS COE team for all the markets
• Provides clear direction and day-to-day leadership to help the team stay aligned on FP&A priorities for the market
• Shares leading practices and learning with other Hub sub-tower teams
• Collaborates across Hub sub-towers to drive process standardization and innovation
• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with Executive Director - GBO and HYD Hub FP&A Lead, Associate Director APAC, Director Ex-US MR COE and with Director - FP&A OPS COE
• Assists in recruiting, hiring, and retaining of strong local team members
• Identifies and manages training and upskilling of local team members

Risk management

• Articulates material risks and opportunities and takes an active role supporting MR COE in designing and executing response or contingency plans