Senior Financial Analyst, Fp&A

Job Summary

The role will provide dedicated commercial financial planning & analysis support to the Gamete business stream of the Fertility Solutions division. This is a hands-on role, partnering with senior individuals, requiring good commercial understanding and business acumen. The role requires a global mind-set to support the organization’s global strategy.

Essential Functions

• Working with the Controlling team to ensure that Group accounting policies are adhered to.
• Ensuring that budget/spend proposals are robustly examined with a strong focus on opex efficiency
• Leading the month end analysis for Gamete, investigating and explaining any deviations from plan
• Supporting the development and enhancement of commercially focused Internal controls
• Some travel will form a necessary part of this role ~5% of time
• Supporting other FP&A projects and initiatives as required to management decision-making
• Critically reviewing contracts, pricing, and other commercial proposals
• Implementing & developing a process for monitoring product profitability
• Analysis of both revenue, opex, & margin
• Developing business plans and decision models to support commercial proposals
• Daily sales reporting & weekly sales projections
• Reviewing, tracking, and coordinating requests for Capital investment in Gamete & ensuring (with Controlling) that additions and disposals are processed in accordance with Group policy.
• Developing reports and explaining deviations on a monthly and quarterly basis to senior management
• Ensuring robust oversight of revenue deferrals and accruals
• Provide support to assist and develop the reporting processes for the wider FP&A team, supporting other FP&A projects as and when required
• Developing new tools and techniques to support forecasting, reporting, and analysis
• Leading the preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts for the Gamete business

Qualifications

• Clear and confident communicator able to convey complex information succinctly.
• A strategic mindset, with the confidence to challenge the norm and ability to influence others and drive change.
• Adaptable, being able to change in response to new information and different or unexpected circumstances.
• Direct, hands-on experience in creating, tracking and controlling actual, forecasts and budget metrics, and with an active curiosity to identify opportunities for the business.
• Experience gained in a Global/US matrix managed businesses is beneficial
• Will have hands-on experience in an FP&A role within a commercial/operational organization
• Due to the international nature of the business, must be prepared to work flexible hours
• Hybrid office/home working with an expectation of being in the office a maximum of 50% of the time
• Proven ability to analyze and understand key business drivers as well as providing clear and succinct recommendations to management.
• Superb spreadsheet and modelling skills.
• An excellent relationship builder who is able to work closely with commercial and operational stakeholders to ensure Finance is a “Trusted Business Partner”.
• Recognized Accountancy Qualification Qualified (e.g. CPA, CGMA, ACCA)
• Analytically minded, to drive consistent unbiased analysis of business proposals to support both the timely and accurate decision making.
• Solid finance foundation and the ability to work in a multi-cultural, diverse environment.
• Educated to degree level
• A commercial and entrepreneurial mindset to allow opportunities and risks to be successfully identified, realized and/or mitigated.