Financial Planning Analyst

Job description

·  Location
Maidenhead, Berkshire
·  Salary
£64,000.00/Year
·  Category
Accountancy & Finance - Analyst
·  Job type
Permanent
·  Industry
Banking and Financial Services
·  External Reference
JN-072020-133920

Our client, a leading medical device manufacture is seeking to recruit a financial planning analyst on a permanent basis. This is a full-time role, initially working from home during COVID restrictions but will be based in Maidenhead.

Start Date: ASAP

Rate of pay: up to £64,000 (depending on experience)

Hours of work: Monday - Friday 37.5 hours per week

Type of Contract Duration: Permanent

Purpose of the Role/ What you'll be doing:

As a Financial Planning Analyst, your duties will include

·  Provide financial expertise, support, perspectives and insights from a financial standpoint including supporting and driving the business initiatives, strategic actions and to understand and justify budgetary/plan commitments

·  Supports new customer set-up, new product introductions, pricing decisions and approvals, and order management by day to day interaction with customer service, supply chain and other shared functions, and remote manufacturers

·  Business Planning; Lead the preparation of the annual financial plans, including working with Global Commercial, Region and BU management teams

·  Responsible for Monthly Performance Reviews and analytics with affiliates and preparation of Monthly Highlights and monitors key events that impact region

·  Leads monthly S&OP process, forecasts and alignment to RLBEs

·  Support the wider Finance and Commercial team in forecasting inputs (assumptions) and required reasons for variances vs. actuals for ADS, LBE and ad-hoc projections

·  Establishes financial policies consistent with Corporate/division policies that allow effective management of the business and provides proper controls.

·  Supports and helps maintain proper controls and procedures related to purchase order process, check requests, capital authorizations, customer profiles, etc.

·  Leads Financial transformation initiative (back office and shared services changes)

The Candidate:

In order to be successful in this role you will have possessed all or some of the below criteria:

·  Bachelor's degree with finance qualification - CPA, CIMA or equivalent.

·  At least 10 years' experience, obtained preferably in a multinational environment, in the Pharma, Diagnostics, Med Devices or similar industries

·  Experience in a regional role or large affiliate (s)

·  Highly analytical with a good appreciation and knowledge of the business

·  Strong initiative and self-starter

·  Excellent communication skills, ability to communicate at various levels and to work through effective prioritization of conflicting demands with multi-functional management

·  Ability to challenge

·  High degree of maturity in dealing with issues and affiliates with high complexity.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our sourcing specialists now.

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