Responsibilities
1. Providing analysis and delivering insight that links financial reports to business strategies
2. Providing effective commercial procedures, or initiating change, to ensure key operational, commercial, and financial targets are delivered
3. Building partnerships and maintaining strong relationships with all senior managers and their teams.
4. Work with EMEA business partners to develop better forecasting tools.
5. Driving and leading ad hoc commercial and operational projects to ensure successful delivery against an agreed timeline.
6. Provide regular updates on Key performance indicators.
7. Provide support to build business cases, including ROI calculations.
8. Drive analysis of key trends on a proactive basis and understand business drivers behind the trends that are visible in the results.
9. Support the delivery of a credible Annual Operating Plan by providing a review of data and making recommendations based on this analysis.
10. Work with business leaders to ensure resources are utilised efficiently to meet business goals.
11. Work with Financial analysts to build reporting dashboards that provide real-time information.
Qualifications
12. A qualified accountant or holds a master’s degree in finance/Accounting.
13. Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills
14. Expert knowledge in Office 365, including Excel, Powerpoint and Power BI (would be an advantage).
15. SAP with business warehouse experience would be useful.
16. Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, and additional European languages would be beneficial.
17. Project management expertise or experience would be an advantage
18. Extensive experience working in a commercial environment, preferably in the Life sciences industry.
19. A self-starting mind-set, able to look ahead, innovate and continually improve agility and adaptability, is comfortable that change is a constant and can adapt actions and thinking to suit different conditions or situations.
20. Comfortable working autonomously.
21. Collaboration & teamwork – possess the ability to listen, share information and work effectively with team members to accomplish goals.
22. Communication – able to express ideas clearly, effectively and with meaning. Enables effective communication across the function or team. Ability to influence and challenge others by communicating clear facts convincingly and respectfully.
23. Creative thinker/Innovator – Can look for alternative approaches. Always willing to look at something differently, constantly asking what if? Including the ability to apply creative and unconventional solutions to complex problems.
24. Enterprise-minded – The ability to see the big picture whilst helping implement procedural change. Also uses expert knowledge to make sound judgments and to act on them where appropriate.
25. Solutions-driven mindset – ability to analyse a problem and construct solutions to resolve said problem.