Associate Director, Finance

Perceptive Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a strategic Associate Director of Finance to drive financial performance and support business leaders. This role involves forecasting, budgeting, and providing insightful financial analysis to shape the company's strategy. With a focus on collaboration and process improvement, you'll work closely with senior stakeholders to optimize financial outcomes. Join a dynamic team committed to changing the future of clinical research and make a meaningful impact in the biopharmaceutical sector.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Health Cash Plan

Private health and dental insurance

Cycle to work scheme

Generous pension scheme

Life assurance

Season ticket loan

Qualifications

• Solid professional experience in a similar role.
• Significant experience in FP&A and strategic finance roles.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to the business unit, driving financial performance.
• Develop financial plans, forecasts, and reporting for management.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Financial Analysis

Communication Skills

Critical Thinking

Process Improvement

Education

Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting

MBA

Tools

Excel

Workday

Job description

Associate Director, Finance page is loaded

Associate Director, Finance

Apply locations GBR - London (Hammersmith Hospital) time type Full time posted on Posted 3 Days Ago job requisition id JR103895

Associate Director, Finance page is loaded

Associate Director, Finance

Apply locations GBR - London (Hammersmith Hospital) time type Full time posted on Posted 3 Days Ago job requisition id JR103895

We’re on a mission to change the future of
clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the
biopharmaceutical industry bring medical
treatments to the market, faster.
Our mission is to change the world
but to do this, we need people like you.

What can we offer you?

Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

YOURSELF
• 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy more)

HEALTH
• Health Cash Plan
• Optional private health, dental insurance, and health screens
• Cycle to work scheme

WEALTH
• Generous pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution
• Life assurance
• Season ticket loan

About the role

Hammersmith office based minimum x3 days per week.

The Role:

We are seeking an accomplished and driven Associate Director Finance to join our Finance team. In this high-impact role, you will serve as a strategic partner to senior business leaders, responsible for forecasting and the budgeting process, providing insightful financial analysis, forward-looking guidance, and decision support to help shape and execute our business strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted advisor to the Hammersmith Discovery business unit, driving financial performance through deep partnership and insight.
• Advises on financial planning and budgeting.
• Develops financial plans and forecasts.
• Assists with the definition and operation of effective financial control and decision making.
• Analyses actual revenues and expenditure, explains variances, and advises on options in use of available budget.
• Leads FP&A developing and improving our reporting to the management team and Board on a timely and accurate basis, supporting the CFO.
• Drives the BU Economic and operational planning process and subsequent forecasting process by partnering with the BU and Perceptive leadership to establish goals and targets.
• Applies current financial and accounting standards, policies and controls, mitigates risk between business and BU financial goals and accounting principles and controls.
• Identifies and prioritise risks and develops solutions to achieve business objectives while remaining compliant.
• Provides performance optimization recommendations to the BU and follows through to deliver timely resolution.
• Provides accurate transparent and timely financial analysis on economic and operations P&L and KPIs to support the leadership decision making process.
• Articulating financial implications of business decisions to assist in the management of profitability, costs, metric efficiencies, and resources providing analysis on revenue, costs, and metrics.
• Monitor key project financial management performance indicators identify areas for improvement, develop solutions and adjust policies and procedures to improve financial outcomes.
• Drives organisational process and system improvement opportunities by leading or participating in change initiatives.
• Collaborate with the BU leadership to identify new / refine existing best practice and communicate to key stakeholders across the business to drive accountability of performance management.
• Analyse financial and operational results, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Provide robust scenario modelling and strategic decision support.
• Influence senior stakeholders through storytelling with data and clear recommendations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, marketing, commercial, and other teams to ensure alignment on financial targets.
• Function as senior individual contributor at the Hammersmith site, leveraging colleagues in finance globally from our shared service.

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, confident presenter
• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail.
• Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.
• Demonstrable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks.
• Shows initiative and self-confidence, is adaptable and is able to cope with changing and evolving priorities.
• Ability to identify and implement process improvements.
• A self-starter and able to work under own initiative.
• Ability to operate collaboratively within a global team environment.
• Takes ownership and responsibility.
• Able to build strong relationships with key senior business leaders and to influence decision making to ensure delivery of business goals.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Solid professional experience in the same or very similar role

• Significant progressive experience in FP&A, business partnering, or strategic finance roles.
• Strong business acumen and a proven ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills; experience with Workday preferable
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• A strategic thinker with a bias for action and a passion for driving results.

Education, qualifications:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or equivalent
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field, MBA a plus
• English – Fluent

Come as you are.
We're proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, colour, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

At Perceptive, we enable the world’s pharmaceutical, biotech, and clinical research organizations to rapidly discover and advance life-changing treatments.

Together, our global team delivers unmatched scientific and technological expertise, global operational experience, and end-to-end solutions to help the global research community realize tomorrow’s new therapies. To do this, we need people like you.

Serving Science

At Perceptive, your work will enable our customers to bring lifesaving and life-improving options to patients around the world. Learn how you can make a difference by joining our team and uniting under our shared goal – serving science to improve people’s lives.

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