Rajat Sarkar

• Business partnered and worked with Product strategy therapeutic area Leads (Oncology) to support financial activities (Budget, LO, Month-close, Strategic Planning)
• Creating and maintaining of vital core working files for planning and reporting of sales and cost
• Conduct presentations on RLT oncology to leadership with professionalism and clarity
• Responsible for providing analytics team with relevant data for RLT brands and Kymriah, handling their questions, and providing financial inputs.
• Support improvement and streamlining of existing management reporting processes
• Business Partnering with other areas of business (FRA, Insights and Analytics Team) to support on time and accurate information gathering
• Worked on product strategy & FTE costs, PR/Comms/Capability & Ops cost management
• Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work.
• Developed a strong company culture focused on employee engagement, collaboration, and continuous learning opportunities.
• Recruited, interviewed and hired employees and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement.

Partner proactively with other Managed Markets Finance departments (Commercial), BP&A, FSC and US Managed Markets functions to prepare Revenue Deductions budgets, spending outlooks, and Strat Plan

• Support forecast owner for healthcare reform potential changes by preparing financial valuations and aligning with key stakeholders on assumptions
• Established Medicines Brand - responsible for Budget, LFs and Strat plan for > 20 products
• Cash flow consolidation reporting to treasury - Central Corporate finance team
• Prepare insights and analytics of monthly Actual vs Projection
• Prepare monthly variance analysis and inform Sr Management of any known risks and opportunities
• Perform ad hoc analysis as requested by Sr Management
• Developed and maintained relationships with stakeholders through timely check ins.

• Review Managed Market Commercial Rebates, provide quantitative and qualitative variance analysis, reporting of patterns, insights and trends to decision-makers
• Review Cash Flow, Quarterly Variance & Trend Analysis
• Providing insights of the quarterly regional US sales data of products to internal customers of Novartis (Commercial/Medicare Contracting & Analysis Team, Oncology team and Key Account Managers in US)
• Responsible of releasing payments for all US regional accounts executed from Hyderabad ~$90M/Qtr
• Implement business strategies and financial controls within team
• Weekly and quarterly reporting of Business Performances of team to the Sr Management
• Responsible for hiring, people development and performance evaluation of team
• Manager, Revenue US Commercial market, Sandoz (Previously - Novartis Division) Oct 2022 - May 2023
• Lead additional team of 5 members
• Responsible for hiring, people development and performance evaluation of team
• Review and analyze Sandoz business processes
• Interacting with internal and external customers to understand issues and corrective actions
• Prepared Team Metrics presentation on quarterly basis and provide management with current month performance

• Prepare sales volume & GR flash reports, monthly volume and revenue dashboards
• Prepare NR Forecast, Sales Volume Forecast and actualization of P&L for the BU
• Compare and present Month to Date Sales Phasing of Actuals vs Latest Forecast and AOP for all Business Units
• Preparation of KPI metrics
• Responsible for calculating and loading Sales Units, Sales amount, COGS Actuals in system as part of month end closing
• Upload Budget and NOPBT in CFR system, A&M and D&A budget in Skelta system and P&L in HFM system
• Prepare Monthly Business Review presentation for business units
• Preparing and Maintaining SOPs of new transitioned process as well as with any change in existing process
• Drive process improvement ideas and implement them to improve productivity
• Traveled to APAC regions to understand line of business for Vietnam and Indonesia and successfully transitioned its finance activities to Hyderabad GBS

• Calculate Managed Market Commercial Rebates to identify revenue deduction savings ($), provide quantitative and qualitative variance analysis, reporting of patterns, insights and trends to decision-makers
• Perform Cash Flow, Quarterly Variance & Trend Analysis
• Providing insights of the quarterly US sales data of products to internal customers of Novartis (Commercial/Medicare Contracting & Analysis Team, Oncology team and Key Account Managers in US)
• Reviewing pricing, understand contracting language, contract setup in Model N system, sales and product analytics of US managed market (Both for Commercial and Medicaid Programs)
• Review Financial data provided by PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) and identifying variances or trends, which can have a significant impact on management decisions
• Review and analyze business processes and identify potential process improvements for Managed Market (US) Interacting with internal and external customers to understand issues and corrective actions
• Provide information and handle audit request from compliance team

• Analysis of financial statement as per US GAAP and IFRS Standards (International Financial Reporting Standards)
• Gathering financial data from the clients and reviewing the same in order to understand clients' requirements regarding the Financial & Tax Compliance
• Executing various tax projects, by working in coordination with Senior Managers and within set deadlines
• Preparing financial work papers for analysis and tax calculations
• Worked closely with highly valued internal and external customers of the company
• Worked in close coordination with high-net-worth individuals and top private equity clients