PharmaLex is one of the largest providers of Development Consulting, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Management & Compliance and Pharmacovigilance, Epidemiology and Risk Management worldwide. Through our US, European and Asian offices, we provide integrated drug development services through a complete range of offerings including regulatory strategy and operations, quality management and compliance, pharmacovigilance and lifecycle management. PharmaLex has extensive regulatory and scientific experience in all therapeutic areas and product formulations.

The Finance Manager is a dependable self-starter who brings a high level of ownership over work, an enthusiastic attitude and a collaborative mindset to support our efforts to provide regulatory and development consulting solutions for pharmaceutical and biotech companies of all sizes. Supports VP of Finance and management with financial information by compiling financial statements and preparing complex analysis. Partner with business leaders to provide financial insights to help drive the company results. Support in month end reporting, cost /project /profitability analysis, budgeting, forecasting, performance dashboard. Establish and improve key finance indicators and processes.

PharmaLex is a proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skill, and experiences within our workforce. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

Reports to (title): VP of Finance

Number of direct/indirect reports: N/A

Provisional budget: N/A

Travel expectations (in %): Up to 5%

Key Responsibilities and Activities Business Partnering

• Act as business partner for business segments: DCS, REG, and PER, work with service line leaders and business heads to identify risk and opportunities, help drive the financial results.
• Tracking and Reporting Key Performance Indictors (KPIs)
• Establish detail cost analysis model per project and resource to understand staffing impact on profitability in various businesses.
• Become the trusted point of contact for the VDCs for questions regarding staffing, pricing, etc., and their impact on the cost / profit of potential changes in projects

Financial Reporting

• Own and prepare monthly financial reporting packages with variance analysis and action driven comments.
• Improve transparency of the financials.
• Manage internal reporting and analysis system, including development of enhancements
• Ad hoc financial analysis and reporting as requested by operating and parent companies
• Prepare leadership presentations as needed (monthly VDC reports, US leadership meeting, support of country manager report),
• Lead monthly performance review discussions with businesses

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Improve accuracy of forecast process, including obtaining and understand the orderbook, identify gaps between the orderbook and the actual revenue, work with the business to identify and quantify opportunities based on probability, reporting and variance analysis, and determine key revenue and operating expense drivers impacting the P&L
• Coordinate and create the annual budget.
• Strategic planning, provide all strategic benchmarking initiatives by monitoring, collecting and analyzing financial data

Profitability

• Become a subject matter expert (SME) of the Project Calculation Tool (PCT), coaching new hires, and service area heads on how to read the file, use the file for scoping, and understand the underlying calculations.
• Analyze business efficiency and profitability, model business scenarios to explore effectiveness and profitability improvement for all VDCs in US and PR.
• Understand cost and bill rate for intercompany, internal employees, external consultants etc., design tools to measure and improve profitability.

Continuous Improvements

• Identifying business process improvements opportunities, developing financial systems roadmap, assessing reporting and analysis needs, and working with work stream leads to successfully complete the project
• Other duties as assigned

Required Education, Experience, Skills and Competencies

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business required.
• 5-7 years of experience with business partnering, financial analysis & modelling, planning, forecasting and reporting.
• 1-2 years of management experience in leading and coaching finance staffs.
• Advanced capabilities and experience in the use and application of PC tools, mainly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Detail oriented with excellent analytical, quantitative and investigative skills.
• Ability to multi-task and work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Comfortable in a team environment with changing priorities and time pressures.
• Open minded with ability to learn new systems and processes
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to interact with and present financial results to all levels of management.
• Ability to adapt under regularly changing conditions
• Outstanding organization, analytical, and problem-solving skills

*This is a remote position

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