Senior Consultant - Business Performance Analyst

Job Title: Senior Consultant - Business Performance Analyst
Grade - D

Introduction to role

As a Global IT function, IGNITE accelerates the impact of technology, data, and AI to fuel AstraZeneca’s Bold Ambition. The Business Operations and Transformation Team enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of IGNITE by developing and implementing strategies and transformation initiatives that drive operational improvements and optimize processes, ensuring that IGNITE achieves its strategic goals.

The core of this role is to drive improvements in Business Performance through the power of data-driven insights. You will work closely with the Senior Leader community in IGNITE to develop data visualizations to enable accelerated time to decision making, provide data-driven insights, and establish performance measures to maintain the operational health and productivity of IGNITE.

Accountabilities

We are seeking a dynamic IGNITE Business Performance Analyst to join our Business Operations and Transformation Team. This role will be an integral part of our team and pivotal in ensuring that IGNITE business operations run efficiently and effectively. As a key contributor, you will drive the smooth functioning of our business operations, facilitate financial management and reporting processes, manage our cloud funding model, and enable operational transformation initiatives through data-driven insights.

Key responsibilities include:

• Business Performance: Support assessment of all aspects of business performance in the functional area: create and design appropriate measures, evaluate metrics and outputs, and report on business performance and trends so that IGNITE understands business performance against key indicators, risks, and actions to mitigate risks.
• Financial Management & Reporting Processes: Collaborate with the IGNITE finance business partner to enable the efficient execution of quarterly financial reporting cycles, including increased transparency through reporting.
• Cloud Funding Model Management: Oversee the operations of a cloud funding model, specifically its demand management, cost allocation, and recharge processes, ensuring accuracy of recharges and demand in alignment with business objectives.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with key stakeholders such as project managers and budget owners to understand demand needs, provide insights, and maintain accurate reporting.
• Operational Efficiency: Collaborate in the optimization and improvements of business operational processes to ensure efficient and effective operations within IGNITE.
• Enabling Transformation: Collaborate with the head of Business Operations and Transformation and the wider team on transformational initiatives that improve the business operations of IGNITE.
• Continuous Improvement: Through data and process analysis, identify potential areas for improvement in IGNITE’s business operations.

Essential Skills/Experience

• A degree or equivalent qualification or relevant professional experience.
• Background and experience in business operations
• Background and experience in Business Performance
• Ability to analyze data and provide actionable insights in business language
• Background and experience in maintaining financial operations
• Working knowledge of BI and Portfolio Tools (e.g. PowerBI, Snowflake)

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Proven experience in life sciences, healthcare, or other related field
• Knowledge of technology, data, and AI
• Knowledge of data analysis and process improvement

At AstraZeneca, we are shaping our digital journey by uniting technologies, tools, and platforms with our collective expertise to drive our transformational journey forward. We leverage leading technologies and explore data to make improved decisions that help us reach the right outcomes quicker. Our ever-changing environment encourages us to challenge, innovate, and find bold new ways of approaching everyday tasks. We empower our diverse team of specialists to explore and express their ideas freely while continuously expanding their knowledge.

Join us now to make a significant impact on AstraZeneca's growth!