Career Category
Operations
Job Description
Position Summary
The Manager, R&D; Business Operations - Budget Management & Execution is responsible for leading the end-to-end budget planning, forecasting, execution, and reporting processes for one or more R&D; functions. The role serves as a trusted business partner to functional leadership, R&D; Finance, and cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring financial plans accurately reflect portfolio priorities, operational requirements, and evolving business needs.
The Manager provides financial analysis, decision support, and operational oversight to enable effective resource allocation and financially responsible execution. This role also drives consistent application of budget management processes, systems, controls, and reporting standards across the supported organization.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead the end-to-end budget management and execution process for one or more VP-level R&D; functions.
• Coordinate annual budget planning, long-range planning, quarterly forecasts, leadership updates, and periodic financial exercises.




• Own the budget-management cadence, including complete line-item visibility for planned spend, commitments, actuals, forecast and closed-with-Finance status.
• Translate business strategies, portfolio priorities, resource plans, and operational assumptions into actionable financial forecasts.
• Partner with functional leadership and R&D; Finance to ensure budgets and forecasts reflect the latest business priorities and anticipated spend.
• Lead recurring budget reviews with RAEs, functional leads and Finance. Identify variance, unused funds, forecast risk, engagement funding needs and required actions.
• Provide timely financial reporting, variance analysis, trend analysis, and identification of financial risks and opportunities.
• Develop financial scenarios and business cases to support investment, resource allocation, portfolio, and operating-model decisions.
• Maintain accurate alignment between plan

📌 Budget Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 AMGEN
📍 Hyderabad