Finance and procurement Operation manager

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We're looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Purpose Of The Role
This is an opportunity to manage financial operations for - Hyderabad team.

As you aspire to do big things in your career, you will bring curiosity, creativity, professional maturity, and high learning agility. You will demonstrate a strong commitment and care for getting every detail right, you will communicate clearly and succinctly, and be a natural planner and driver. You will be working closely with multiple stakeholders to manage contingent workers, purchase orders, invoices and other activities for smooth financial operations.

The project work includes planning and coordinating with finance managers, tech leaders and site finance and procurement teams. You will be responsible for ensuring –

• Partnering with Tech leaders and vendors to get contingent worker support as per business needs
• Tracking lifecycle of a contingent worker
• Creating POs as needed by business
• Creating invoices for vendors services
• Managing vendors
• Support monthly financial operations for some business areas
• Compliance with Lilly's policies for all tasks

Key Criteria:
We are looking for an experienced person who has demonstrated independent and proactive ownership in taking end-to-end accountability from conceptualizing, planning, preparation, disciplined execution and monitoring book of work, tasks and activities with minimal oversight; is proactive and thought provoking in engaging with strong learning mindset and agility in building and developing on new ideas and skills without being asked; has the right attitude and mindset to positively surprise and delight the stakeholders with tangible outcomes and experiences; has the right can-do will-do calm mindset and patience to effectively deal with ambiguities, unknowns and complexities to deliver strongly; is purposeful in challenging the status quo and naturally collaborative to partner effectively and robustly with the different parties; excellent at managing stakeholder expectations with proactive and persuasive communication with no gap; ability to understand problems and attending to them with high sense of urgency, ownership until resolution.

Responsibilities
Vendor and Contingent worker Management -

• Assist and support Hyderabad leaders in managing contingent workers
• Work closely with vendors to source profiles as per skill requirements stated by the business
• Track contingent worker through his/her life cycle in Lilly and ensure onboarding and offboarding as per Lilly policies
• Partner with site procurement and Tech operations and strategy leader to manage the vendor relationships
• Track metrics to measure vendor performance
• Partner with site IT for onboarding in Lilly
• Maintain detailed records of contingent worker – start date, end date, cost centre, manager etc
• Actively plan and think of automation opportunities to remove manual tasks

Procurement -

• Create Purchase orders (PO) and invoices as needed by the business
• Track PO usage and report monthly run rates
• Actively forecast PO usage and top-up POs as needed to ensure business continuity
• Learn Lilly's procurement policies
• Ensure compliance to Lilly's policies and procedures
• Maintain detailed records of PO usage
• Process invoices on time
• Ensure compliance of vendors to agreed upon MSA terms
• Review, track and report payments made to vendors
• Forecast PO budgets based on historical usage to create new POs for next financial year
• Maintain open POs for vendors providing food / transport / other goodies services for tech team
• Actively plan and think of automation opportunities to remove manual tasks

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Bachelors degree with 5 years of experience in a matrix organization in procurement and financial operations

Must Haves

• Administrative and management skills
• Strong quantitative skills
• Thoroughness and attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously
• Capacity to read and comprehend large amounts of information quickly
• Confidentiality and discretion
• Excellent oral & written communication skills
• Ability to deal with ambiguity
• Experience in managing and working with senior level stakeholders
• Ability to collaborate with multiple teams
• Ability to network and work in a matrix organization
• Strong knowledge of MS excel
• Exposure to SAP systems for financial management
• Process-driven
• Critical thinking

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