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Job Profile Summary
Reporting to the Senior Director – Finance, Digitization and Strategic Initiatives, this role is the execution engine behind the modernization agenda spanning Commercial Finance and Strategic Global Sourcing (SGS). The Manager owns delivery of assigned digitization, process redesign, and contracting initiatives — building the business case, baselining performance honestly, tracking benefits to the P&L, and reporting progress against committed KPIs. Critically, this role owns quality assurance, quality control, and SOX and internal control integrity across the digitization portfolio broadly — not solely within SGS finance — ensuring that every process that is redesigned, automated, or migrated to a new system emerges with control coverage equal to or stronger than the state it replaced, and with documentation and evidence that withstand internal and external audit. This role is expected to challenge existing processes, assumptions, and reporting routines rather than administer them: identifying low-value and duplicated activity, quantifying its cost, and designing the target-state process that removes it without weakening control. The Manager also supports the build-out of the SGS contract digitization capability and contracting strategy, and prepares the analysis, materials, and value cases the Senior Director carries into enterprise digitization governance forums.
Job Description PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leads assigned initiatives within the sourcing and Commercial Finance modernization portfolio from business case through implementation, maintaining the plan, milestones, owners, dependencies, and status reporting
- Builds and defends the financial case for each initiative — hard savings, cost avoidance, working capital, and margin impact — using defensible baselines rather than estimates
- Baselines, tracks, and reports the KPI set defined by Finance, Sourcing, and Commercial leadership; escalates initiatives that are off-track and recommends corrective action or reset
- Performs current-state process analysis across sourcing and sourcing finance; documents handoffs, cycle times, controls, and effort, and identifies work that can be retired, consolidated, or automated
- Quantifies the cost of manual workarounds, duplicated effort, and fragmented systems, and models the headcount and cost-structure impact of the proposed target state
- Designs target-state processes and operating procedures with clear before/after cost, cycle-time, and quality measures, and supports adoption and change management through go-live
- Owns the quality assurance and quality control framework for the digitization portfolio broadly — defines test plans, acceptance criteria, data validation and reconciliation routines, and post-implementation reviews, and provides sign-off before a new process or system moves to production
- Ensures every process redesign, automation, and system migration preserves or strengthens SOX coverage: identifies impacted key controls, redesigns them for the target state, updates control narratives and risk-control matrices, and secures agreement from Controllership, Internal Audit, and external audit
- Partners with Controllership, Internal Audit, and IT General Controls owners to maintain segregation of duties, system access, change management, and audit evidence standards across new and existing digital workflows
- Establishes ongoing control monitoring and exception reporting for automated and digitized processes, including data integrity and reconciliation checks, so control breakdowns are detected and remediated before they become audit findings
- Maintains process, control, and system documentation across the initiative portfolio to a standard that withstands internal and external audit scrutiny, and supports auditor walkthroughs and testing requests
- Supports the design and stand-up of the SGS contract digitization capability, covering intake, authoring, approval, execution, repository, and downstream contract data usage
- Assists in developing and rolling out SGS contracting standards, templates, playbooks, and delegation-of-authority guidelines in partnership with category management
- Analyzes contract and sourcing data to surface value leakage, off-contract spend, expiring agreements, and terms that constrain commercial objectives
- Partners with technology, sourcing, commercial, and operations teams to translate business requirements into system and workflow solutions, and supports testing, deployment, and user enablement
- Prepares business cases, benefits-realization reporting, and decision materials for the enterprise digitization governance steering committee
- Builds and maintains reporting, dashboards, and models that track initiative benefits from commitment through realization in the P&L
- Establishes and maintains continuous-improvement routines so gains are sustained after an initiative closes
- Acts as a key point of contact between Commercial Finance and SGS on assigned initiatives, resolving issues and unblocking work that crosses functional lines
- Provides day-to-day direction, review, and coaching to analysts supporting assigned initiatives
- Performs related duties as assigned
EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field
Normally requires a minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible related experience across finance, sourcing/procurement, transformation, or operational excellence; experience delivering technology-enabled process change preferred
MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced credential is preferred
MINIMUM SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS:
- Proficiency in the English language (equivalent to CEFR B2 Proficiency Rating or above in IELTS)
- Ability to work partial US time zone shift (4 hours of overlap with Eastern Time Zone)
- Strong commercial finance capability: business case construction, baselining, benefits tracking, and variance analysis
- Working knowledge of SOX 404, internal control design, and IT General Controls (ITGC) as applied to finance systems and automated processes is required
- Experience with QA/QC methodology — test planning, UAT, data validation, and post-implementation review — for system or process implementations
- Ability to implement processes resulting in satisfactory audit practices, and to work directly with internal and external auditors
- Demonstrated ability to challenge established processes constructively and to not accept “this is how we do it” as an answer
- Working knowledge of contract lifecycle management, sourcing/procurement platforms, or workflow automation tools is desired
- Working knowledge of SAP and related finance or sourcing systems is desired
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint; proficiency in Microsoft Suite required
- Experience with data visualization and reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent) is preferred
- Process mapping, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement methodology (Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent) is preferred
- Knowledge of the US pharmaceutical distribution industry or another regulated industry is favorable
- Proven ability to influence and drive outcomes in a matrixed environment without direct authority
- Project management skills; ability to run multiple concurrent initiatives to committed milestones
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, including preparing materials for senior leadership
- Strong analytical skills; ability to analyze data and situations quickly and draw defensible conclusions
- Strong problem-solving skills; ability to work through ambiguous and difficult tasks
- Strong organizational skills; attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy
- Capable of making sound decisions and recommendations to achieve goals
- Resourceful in pursuing or recommending new ideas, processes, and technology
- Experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary, diverse, and dynamic team(s) with varying levels of responsibility
- Experience working with a team in multiple locations (including shared services) is preferred
- Performs ad-hoc tasks as required
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Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business administration, economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.
Master's degree in finance, accounting, business administration, economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.
7+ years of experience in finance, FP and A, corporate finance, business finance required.
3+ years of experience in a management capacity preferred.
Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), or other finance-related certification preferred.
Manages preparation and review of budgets, forecasts, financial models, and executive reporting packages.
Oversees analysis of financial performance, trends, risks, and variances to provide actionable business insights.
Manages Financial Planning and Analysis (FP and A) processes, timelines, and deliverables across planning and reporting cycles.
Advises and partners with senior leaders to evaluate business performance and support strategic decisions.
Develops team capability, strengthens controls, and drives continuous improvement in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP and A) processes.
What Cencora offersBenefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.
Full time
Affiliated CompaniesAffiliated Companies: CENCORA BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
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