Project Financial Analyst I

Syneos Health, Inc.; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health in Farnborough, UK is seeking an entry-level Financial Analyst I to support global finance operations within a biopharmaceutical services environment.

You will analyze financial data, prepare internal reports, and provide insights to drive decision-making across budgets, forecasts, and performance metrics. The role offers exposure to pharmaceutical CRO contexts and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Education: Minimum 4 Year / Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or equivalent education and experience.
• 0–2 years of work experience.

Responsibilities

• Develops and delivers financial reporting, controls and procedures to ensure financial information is reported accurately and timely for group deadlines.
• Prepares, interprets and analyzes financial data, business metrics, and ad-hoc reports for global management.
• Prepares key reports such as annual cost and expense budgets, cost rates, cost and expense forecasting, monthly utilization, headcount, revenue backlog analysis, and/or gross profit for assigned area.
• Develops and produces monthly financial reports and commentary, as well as other financial analysis and metrics as required by senior management.
• Serves as a key contact point for interpretation and investigation of financial results in assigned area.
• Provides financial insights to business growth trends and profitability in assigned area.
• Assists management and others within Finance department with miscellaneous projects as directed by supervisor.

Skills

Pharma/CRO experience

Advanced MS Office

Financial analysis

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business/Finance/Accounting

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Oracle Finance

Job description

Updated: Today
Location: Farnborough, HAM, United Kingdom
Job ID:25112240

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.
Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

• Develops and delivers financial reporting, controls and procedures to ensure financial information is reported accurately and timely for group deadlines.
• Prepares, interprets and analyzes financial data, business metrics, and ad-hoc reports for global management.
• Prepares key reports such as annual cost and expense budgets, cost rates, cost and expense forecasting, monthly utilization, headcount, revenue backlog analysis, and/or gross profit for assigned area. Produces ad hoc reports as required.
• Develops and produces monthly financial reports and commentary, as well as other financial analysis and metrics as required by senior management. Offers methods for improving results by reviewing timeliness, accuracy and efficiencies in reporting.
• Serves as a key contact point for interpretation and investigation of financial results in assigned area.
• Provides financial insights to business growth trends and profitability in assigned area.
• Assists management and others within Finance department with miscellaneous projects as directed by supervisor.

Qualifications

Education Requirements: Minimum 4 Year / Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or equivalent education and experience. 0-2 years of work experience.

Additional Qualifications

• Must have Pharmaceutical or CRO experience
• Ability to utilize protocol and subject data to identify how to build subject visit forecast (i.e., split of forecast by multiple cohorts/arms, split by different subject status)
• Review Medidata CTMS data and determine if any additional side calculations are needed for forecast (i.e., missing screen failure costs)
• Identify inconsistency within data (i.e., significant change in visit rate for 1 site, currency error due to typo KWW instead of KRW)
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) is essential. Proficiency with accounting software packages is necessary and experience with Oracle Finance is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work with confidential and sensitive data is required.
• Requires exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, organizational, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
• Excellent financial, communication, and interpersonal skills are required as well as a high level of personal motivation to achieve.
• The ability to perform several tasks simultaneously to meet deadlines is necessary.

Disclaimer

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

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Summary

Financial Analyst I is an entry-level position within the finance department. This role primarily involves analyzing financial data, preparing financial reports, and providing recommendations to support decision-making processes. Financial Analyst I may assist in budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling activities. They may also conduct research and analysis on industry trends, competitors, and economic factors that may impact the company's financial performance. Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in financial software and tools are typically required for this role.

Description

Project Financial Analyst I

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.
Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

• Develops and delivers financial reporting, controls and procedures to ensure financial information is reported accurately and timely for group deadlines.

• Prepares, interprets and analyzes financial data, business metrics, and ad-hoc reports for global management.
• Prepares key reports such as annual cost and expense budgets, cost rates, cost and expense forecasting, monthly utilization, headcount, revenue backlog analysis, and/or gross profit for assigned area. Produces ad hoc reports as required.
• Develops and produces monthly financial reports and commentary, as well as other financial analysis and metrics as required by senior management. Offers methods for improving results by reviewing timeliness, accuracy and efficiencies in reporting.
• Serves as a key contact point for interpretation and investigation of financial results in assigned area.
• Provides financial insights to business growth trends and profitability in assigned area.
• Assists management and others within Finance department with miscellaneous projects as directed by supervisor.

Qualifications

Education Requirements: Minimum 4 Year / Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or equivalent education and experience. 0-2 years of work experience.

Additional Qualifications

• Must have Pharmaceutical or CRO experience
• Ability to utilize protocol and subject data to identify how to build subject visit forecast (i.e., split of forecast by multiple cohorts/arms, split by different subject status)
• Review Medidata CTMS data and determine if any additional side calculations are needed for forecast (i.e., missing screen failure costs)
• Identify inconsistency within data (i.e., significant change in visit rate for 1 site, currency error due to typo KWW instead of KRW)
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) is essential. Proficiency with accounting software packages is necessary and experience with Oracle Finance is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work with confidential and sensitive data is required.
• Requires exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, organizational, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
• Excellent financial, communication, and interpersonal skills are required as well as a high level of personal motivation to achieve.
• The ability to perform several tasks simultaneously to meet deadlines is necessary.

Disclaimer

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

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Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.

Summary

Financial Analyst I is an entry-level position within the finance department. This role primarily involves analyzing financial data, preparing financial reports, and providing recommendations to support decision-making processes. Financial Analyst I may assist in budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling activities. They may also conduct research and analysis on industry trends, competitors, and economic factors that may impact the company's financial performance. Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in financial software and tools are typically required for this role.

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