Why choose AstraZeneca India?
Help push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients. After 45 years in India, we’re continuing to secure a future where everyone can access affordable, sustainable, innovative healthcare.
The part you play in our business will be challenging, yet rewarding, requiring you to use your resilient, collaborative and diplomatic skillsets to make connections. The majority of your work will be field based, and will require you to be highly-organised, planning your monthly schedule, attending meetings and calls, as well as writing up reports.
Who do we look for?
Calling all tech innovators, ownership takers, challenge seekers and proactive collaborators. At AstraZeneca, breakthroughs born in the lab become transformative medicine for the world's most complex diseases. We empower people like you to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention, and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. You'll embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.
Here, diverse minds and bold disruptors can meaningfully impact the future of healthcare using cutting-edge technology. Whether you join us in Bengaluru or Chennai, you can make a tangible impact within a global biopharmaceutical company that invests in your future. Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients every day.
Success Profile
Ready to make an impact in your career? If you're passionate, growth-orientated and a true team player, we'll help you succeed. Here are some of the skills and capabilities we look for.
Tech innovators
Make a greater impact through our digitally enabled enterprise. Use your skills in data and technology to transform and optimise our operations, helping us deliver meaningful work that changes lives.
Ownership takers
If you're a self-aware self-starter who craves autonomy, AstraZeneca provides the perfect environment to take ownership and grow. Here, you'll feel empowered to lead and reach excellence at every level — with unrivalled support when you need it.
Challenge seekers
Adapting and advancing our progress means constantly challenging the status quo. In this dynamic environment where everything we do has urgency and focus, you'll have the ability to show up, speak up and confidently take smart risks.
Proactive collaborators
Your unique perspectives make our ambitions and capabilities possible. Our culture of sharing ideas, learning and improving together helps us consistently set the bar higher. As a proactive collaborator, you'll seek out ways to bring people together to achieve their best.
Responsibilities
Job Title: Senior Manager - Finance Transformation (AI & Technology)
Career Level: E
As Senior Manager, you will set the vision, build the roadmap, and own delivery for AI-led finance products. You will be empowered to prioritize what matters, collaborate with top talent, and see your work land—at pace and at scale.
Accountabilities:
Product Strategy and Vision: Define product vision and roadmap for finance transformation initiatives demonstrating AI/ML, analytics, automation, and modern data platforms; align priorities with Finance leadership and enterprise strategy to deliver measurable outcomes.
Business Analysis and Requirements: Lead discovery and process analysis; build epics, features, and user stories with acceptance criteria; document end-to-end requirements, non-functional needs, and data dependencies to ensure visibility and quality at every stage.
Collaborator Engagement: Facilitate workshops with Finance, Data, Tech, and Compliance collaborators; handle expectations, resolve ambiguity, and drive consensus on scope and success metrics to unlock decision-making and momentum.
Delivery Leadership: Serve as Product Owner for one or more agile squads; prioritize backlog, handle sprints, and ensure delivery against outcomes; support solution design, testing, and readiness so products are usable, reliable, and scalable.
Data and AI Use Cases: Identify, qualify, and shape AI-led use cases (forecasting, anomaly detection, reconciliations, close optimization, working capital insights); partner with data science and engineering to operationalize models and embed them in day-to-day work.
Process and Controls: Reinvent finance processes (Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, FP&A) with automation and analytics; ensure solutions meet control, audit, and regulatory standards to sustain trust and compliance.
Organizational Change and Adoption: Develop rollout, training, and communication plans; supervise adoption and value realization; refine products based on feedback and performance to enhance impact and value.
Continuous Improvement: Supervise emerging technologies and procedures; propose enhancements and new capabilities to keep Finance at the innovative and continuously improve.
Essential Skills/Experience:
Product strategy and vision-setting for finance transformation initiatives demonstrating AI/ML, analytics, automation, and modern data platforms, aligned to enterprise strategy.
Hands-on business analysis and requirements management, including discovery, process analysis, epics, features, user stories with acceptance criteria, non-functional needs, and data dependencies.
Shown collaborator engagement across Finance, Data, Tech, and Compliance, with experience facilitating workshops, resolving ambiguity, and building consensus on scope and success metrics.
Agile delivery leadership as a Product Owner, including backlog prioritization, sprint management, solution design support, testing oversight, and readiness activities focused on outcomes.
Practical experience identifying and shaping AI-led use cases (forecasting, anomaly detection, reconciliations, close optimization, working capital insights) and operationalizing models with data science and engineering.
Expertise reimagining finance processes (Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, FP&A) using automation and analytics while meeting control, audit, and regulatory requirements.
Organizational change and adoption planning, including training, communications, value tracking, and product iteration based on user feedback and performance.
Continuous improvement approach, supervising emerging technologies and procedures and proposing enhancements to keep Finance at the pioneering.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
Professional background in finance transformation within large, sophisticated organizations, ideally with exposure to regulated environments.
Familiarity with enterprise finance and data platforms (for example, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, Workday, Coupa, Snowflake, Databricks) and modern data integration patterns.
Understanding of control frameworks and compliance standards (such as SOX), data privacy, model risk management, and audit considerations for AI/ML.
Experience with MLOps, feature stores, and model monitoring to sustain production AI capabilities.
Relevant qualifications such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA, or MBA; training in product management, design thinking, or agile at scale.
Track record leading global, cross-functional initiatives and landing measurable value in Finance.
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we ignite aggressive thinking with the power to
inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge
perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that
Doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual
flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
Why AstraZeneca:
Here, ambitious ideas become real outcomes. You will work with diverse authorities who combine product craft, data science, and financial acumen to modernize how we plan, close, and invest—so resources move faster to the science that matters. We put aggressive thinkers in the same room to solve hard problems, pair modern technology with detailed controls, and value understanding alongside ambition. Your impact will be visible in how Finance operates day to day, and in how quickly our enterprise can back promising research and deliver for patients.
Call to Action:
If you are ready to build AI-powered finance products that deliver measurable value and help speed life-changing medicines to patients, take the lead and step forward today!
Date Posted
26-Jan-2026Closing Date
12-Feb-2026AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.
Reasons to Join
Thomas Mathisen
There are many things I enjoy when working at AstraZeneca, mainly the Speak up culture, the great colleagues that are in my teams, the great products that AstraZeneca provides to our patients and the challenging conversations I have around our medicines.
Christine Recchio
Working at AstraZeneca has impacted my life in such a positive way. I now have an improved work-life balance through creating my own schedule and time management, I feel a balance that I didn’t have before.
Stephanie Ling
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy working in AstraZeneca, my colleagues being one of them. My team members and the managers have provided a great deal of guidance in helping me to be more confident in my daily work.
What we offer
We're driven by our shared values of serving people, society and the planet. Our people make this possible, which is why we prioritise diversity, safety, empowerment and collaboration. Discover what a career at AstraZeneca could mean for you.
Lifelong learning
Our development opportunities are second to none. You'll have the chance to grow your abilities, skills and knowledge constantly as you accelerate your career. From leadership projects and constructive coaching to overseas talent exchanges and global collaboration programmes, you'll never stand still.
Autonomy and reward
Experience the power of shaping your career how you want to. We are a high-performing learning organisation with autonomy over how we learn. Make big decisions, learn from your mistakes and continue growing — with performance-based rewards as part of the package.
Health and wellbeing
An energised work environment is only possible when our people have a healthy work-life balance and are supported for their individual needs. That's why we have a dedicated team to ensure your physical, financial and psychological wellbeing is a top priority.
Inclusion and diversity
Diversity and inclusion are embedded in everything we do. We're at our best and most creative when drawing on our different views, experiences and strengths. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone can thrive in a culture of respect, collaboration and innovation.
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