As the Vice President of FP&A, you'll lead the financial strategy, planning, and analysis activities, providing senior management with financial insights and projections for strategic decision-making, while overseeing the monthly and quarterly reporting process, quarterly forecasting, and annual budget processes. This role will act as a strategic advisor to the CFO and executive team, translating data into actionable insights to drive growth, profitability, and operational efficiency. This role is essential for steering business decisions and ensuring financial goals align with corporate objectives. This role requires advanced strategic thinking and communication skills.   

Essential duties include but are not limited to:

Planning:

• Lead and scale the FP&A function, setting the vision, structure, and operational rigor needed to support scalable, strategic decision-making as we grow.
• Partner with the CFO on earnings prep and Board-facing materials, delivering essential insights to internal and external stakeholders.
• Influence company-wide decisions as a trusted advisor to senior executives and cross-functional leads, translating financial insights into strategic growth initiatives.
• Act as a strategic partner to business units, providing financial guidance and support

Reporting & Analytics:

• Optimize annual budget and quarterly forecast process & consolidation
• Oversee the development of financial models for budgeting and forecasting
• Responsible for synthesizing budget and Long-Term Strategic Plan information and data for senior executive and investor stakeholders
• Lead development of financial modeling for organic growth investments
• Develop short and long-term forecasting models
• Responsible for the monthly and quarterly financial reporting packages for the Executive Mgmt team and the Board of Directors
• Optimize processes to accelerate monthly and quarterly reporting
• Collaborate with management teams to maintain financial results in line with budgets and forecasts, deploying countermeasures as needed to achieve targeted financial outcomes
• Provide FP&A support for the SG&A functions (e.g. HR, IT, etc.)

Financial Operations:

• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and development throughout the FP&A team.
• Collaborate across IT and the broader Finance Organization to modernize financial tools and processes
• Managing the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports and presentations for the CFO
• Optimize the monthly financial close timeline
• Partner with cross-functional transformation teams to implement key, strategic and financial initiatives
• Facilitate and contribute to senior finance leadership team responsible for best practice sharing, career development and department planning
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing FP&A team
• Foster a collaborative and results-driven culture within the team
• Provide ongoing training and professional development opportunities for team members

Qualifications:

Minimum Required:

• Bachelor’s degree with a concentration finance, accounting, economics, or business administration
• A minimum of 15 years relevant experience
• Excellent communication and administration skills; ability to communicate complex financial insights clearly and effectively at all levels, including the Board
• Bring proven experience partnering with complex global organizations approaching $1billion of revenue and 3,000+ employees
• Possess sharp analytical and problem-solving skills with deep expertise in financial modeling.
• Experience with financial planning software and ERP systems
• Strong MS Office skills e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI
• Ability to work in a complex multi-service international company
• Ability to champion change and continuous improvement

Other Preferred:

• Pharma services experience
• Experience interacting with senior executives and investors
• Finance experience working across multiple business models
• Experience interacting across all levels of an organization
• CPA, CFA, MBA or Masters of Finance
• Self-starting attitude with a strong desire to learn and grow in fast paced environment
• Demonstrated critical thinking, analytical, interpretative and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail and ability to deliver high quality work

Job Summary

The Manager, Business Relationship Management (BRM) is the primary liaison between IT and business stakeholders.  The BRM’s goal is to partner with the business to define technology strategies, define solutions, engage with vendors, and deploy technology. 

The BRM understands business processes and provides technology guidance to the business, ensuring maximum ROI for IT investments.  The BRM owns executive-level relationships and serves as a single point of focus, working to converge IT solutions across multiple functions, departments and business lines.  The BRM regularly evaluates existing technologies and evaluates modernization and cost effectiveness of these platforms. 

Duties

• Lead technology strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals. 
• Prioritize technology and AI initiatives and coordinating the assessment, deployment and management of current and future systems. 
• Assess industry, technology, and competitor trends to identify opportunities to apply technology, AI, and Automation to improve revenue and EBITDA  
• Own the relationship with business operations team and executives  
• Own relationship with current and potential vendors  
• Partner with department leaders to understand business strategy, demand, and priorities and help the business propose programs/projects which will drive those strategic goals. 
• Leverage and optimize both new and existing hardware /software with a focus on collaboration, automation, and efficiencies across business units. 
• Direct continuous improvements of systems and procedures.  
• Anticipate how business strategy or policy changes will impact systems and processes. 
• Identify opportunities for appropriate and cost-effective investment in IT systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, procurement and in-house development. 
• Participate in the development of IT and business budgets. 
• Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IT spending initiatives. 
• Measure effectiveness of deployed solutions. 
• Evaluate and qualify technology solutions/platforms. 
• Participate in client programs and audits as required for optimal utilization, effectiveness, and success. 
• And other job duties as assigned by the line manager.

Education and Experience

Minimum Education & Experience:

• Bachelors Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or technical discipline 
• Professional educational certificates such as Certified Business Relationship Manager (CBRM), Project Management Professional (PMP), technical certifications or equivalent experience   
• 5+ years of experience managing and directing an IT function including experience in strategic planning and execution.   
• 5+ years of experience facilitating the development and implementation of business initiatives and projects 

 Preferred Education & Experience:

• Proven experience in strategic IT planning, organization, and development 
• Working knowledge of project management methodologies and systems 
• Advanced knowledge of the pharma commercialization process  
• Advanced knowledge of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and related lab acquisition and analysis software
• Or equivalent combination of education, professional training and experience that provides the individual with the required knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job.
• Ability to listen and build rapport as a strategic partner, vertically within the business unit, as well as with leadership and functional teams 
• Ability to map joint organizational vision and long-term thinking, imagination, and idea generation 
• Knowing when to push an agenda and when to let a situation develop, rest, or advance 
• Exceptional ability to lead change using positive and collaborative methods 
• Ability to set expectations with business partners and effectively leverage governance for a positive business partner experience 
• Understand and integrate business strategies and trends in technology to deliver value 
• Ability to identify gaps and areas that need improvement 
• Ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical individuals 
• Strong client service focus on exhibiting proactivity and follow-through commitments 
• Ability to establish a vision for a platform / technology and collaborate with different teams in implementing that vision. 
• Experience in interacting with development teams to deliver first pass quality 
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.