Finance Director in Manchester

About Avalere Health Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries. Our 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology — to create the connections that make better health happen.Avalere Health partners with its clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: At Avalere Health, we imagine a healthier world and create the connections to make it happen.  Salary:  Competitive + excellent benefits (bonus, pension, healthcare, life cover, etc) Location Manchester / Hybrid About the role Reporting into the CFO you will support the Divisional/ Business Leaders within our Medical Communications capability, and other capabilities where required. You will cover financial planning, analysis & reporting, project finance support including developing, tracking, and improving upon KPI’s ( Recovery, Utilization, Cost/FTE etc.), commercial support, including MSA negotiations, pricing, and pitch support; and ad-hoc analysis to support the business and group.You will be an integral member of the Finance Leadership Team helping with key deliverables for the above functions.

What you'll do

Finance Business Partnering

Acting as a trusted business partner to the key stakeholders; by actively challenging and participating in decision and coordinate the planning process (budgets and reforecasts).

Lead, manage and develop the finance teams across all central support functions and strategic functions.

Develop and maintain a board pack and KPI dashboard that helps to steer the senior leadership team with key strategic decisions.

Provide actionable analysis, insights, and recommendations to maximise financial performance, support commercial decision-making and make the right capital investments.

Delivering robust and accurate analysis of business performance for individual business sectors identifying risks, issues, and opportunities.

Driving change and leading the transformation process to establish a best-in-class FP&A and performance reporting function through technological, process, analysis, and reporting improvements.

Leading and owning business performance reporting through insights.

Challenging the status quo and building a holistic understanding of the business.

Challenging monthly performance to inform and facilitate decision making across multiple stakeholders.

Financial Deliverables

Manage the production and timely presentation of high quality divisional monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports to both internal and external stakeholders in compliance with Group accounting policies.

Review and comment the divisional financial results including the key performance indicators and metrics that drive the divisional performance.

Ensuring internal reporting deadlines are met.

Manage all group deliverables in a timely manner

Anticipate and contribute to the annual audit.

Be the "technical expert" across the Finance function, advising on best practice and the application of revenue recognition and other accounting standards across the business

Commercial Support

Support the commercial organization where needed

Help track and analyse new sales opportunities for profitability

Negotiate favourable financial terms in MSA’s

Help track and analyse sales reporting and conversion to revenue

Other Leadership Functions:

Collaborate with the Finance Leadership team to develop and deliver the Finance Strategy

Develop and lead a team of finance professionals in support of the business

About you

10 years of relevant work experience demonstrating continued growth and progression in the field

3-5 years of Medical Communication experience preferred

Qualified accountant with minimum 5+ years of PQE

Prior people leadership with demonstrated experience in coaching and developing direct reports required

Must be willing to travel and work 2-3 days a week in our Manchester offices

Excellent time management, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Flexibility to occasionally accommodate US time zone requirements

Self-starter organised and able to prioritise effectively.

High attention to detail with 'big picture' awareness.

What we can offer Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges. At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope. We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide. We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.  We encourage all applicants to read our   before applying to Avalere Health.