Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

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Date: Oct 9, 2023

Location: US

Company: Cytel Software Corporation

Join us in playing an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and ultimately improve human health outcomes!

Cytel provides unrivalled biostatistics and operations research to improve drug development success rates, crucial for human welfare. Focused on using innovative applications of statistical science and adaptive clinical trial design, Cytel is at the cutting edge of technology and human ingenuity, driving healthcare forward.

The Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis will interface with several finance leaders and functions, like Human Resources, IT, Finance, Marketing, Commercial, Legal, Technology and Supply Chain to coordinate the forecasting and reporting processes and assess the cost-benefit impact of investment and expense decisions. It will also be required to analyze and assess transaction-level details and summarize results to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with the functional leaders of Cytel to build annual budgets, monitor monthly results and work on strategic initiatives to optimize financial performance.
• Play a key role in driving the annual budgeting process for all global business functions, Software & SG&A components - including staffing levels, expense projections, and investment decisions.
• Update current quarter and current year forecasting outlooks each month.
• Work closely with functional & business leaders to build and report revised projections
• Provide detailed analysis by function of monthly variations to Budget and to Prior year
• Participate in monthly financial closing activities for businesses Software and SG&A components including coordinating the flow of journal entries and accruals to the controllership team
• Maintain monthly reporting tools to provide functional leaders with clear visibility to ongoing performance vs. budgeted targets.
• Contribute to the cost optimization and transformation plan by updating and checking the savings in the global tracking tool
• Review, analyze, and approve purchase orders for major investment and expense items. Ensure purchases are in line with budgets.
• Participate and lead global projects to further simplify, automate, and improve reporting cycles and processes and cross-functional initiatives.
• Interface with functional leaders and their teams throughout the month to present updates of their performance and identify improvement areas and opportunities.
• Update and maintain existing dashboards and KPIs.
• This role has visibility within the global finance team, offers a steep learning curve and has potential for growth. This role also provides an exciting opportunity to learn about and participate in the core strategies the finance team is implementing to drive global data visibility, standardize the budgeting process, and enable consistent analysis of key information to support important business decisions.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting, CPA or MBA preferred

Experience: 7+ years of work experience with demonstrated increases in levels of responsibility. Prior experience working with private equity or in fast-paced mid-sized companies is a plus.

Skills:

• Solid grasp of core financial concepts. Ability to understand and execute accounting transactions.
• Demonstrated experience working with ERP systems and reporting & analysis tools.
• Business Intelligence tool experience (creating/publishing reports, dashboards
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills. Should have solid experience working with pivot tables, look-up functions, and charting tools.
• Ability to interface effectively with senior business leaders.
• Capability to translate complex financial sets of data into meaningful analysis and explanations
• Experience communicating forecasts, analysis, and variance explanations.
• Flexibility to work across multiple time-zones during fast-paced, compact-closing cycles.
• Strong organization skills.
• Able to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Strong communications skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze processes, identify opportunities, and execute improvement projects.
• strong analytical and judgment skills, operational-driven mindset in addition to experience working with large sets of data.

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