Senior Financial Controller

Ferring Holding SA; Ferring; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare company is seeking a Senior Financial Controller in West Drayton, UK. You will manage planning and control systems, oversee budgeting processes, and provide financial analysis. The ideal candidate has a master's degree in finance, 7+ years of experience, and strong leadership skills. The position offers a competitive salary and a supportive working culture that emphasizes family-building benefits.

Benefits

Parental leave for all parents

Financial support for fertility treatments

Included health and wellness benefits

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in finance and at least 2 years as a finance analyst in a multinational environment.
• Proven ability to manage internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and self-directed manner.

Responsibilities

• Ensure key controlling tasks and analytical processes in month-end closing.
• Coordinate with procurement for the forecasting process.
• Contribute to achieving financial goals and targets.

Skills

Leadership and influencing skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills (written and verbal)

Time management

Education

University master's degree in finance or economics

ACCA / CIMA / ACA

Tools

MS Office

SAP

Job description

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Senior Financial Controller

Apply locations West Drayton, United Kingdom time type Full time posted on Posted 11 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: August 31, 2025 (30+ days left to apply) job requisition id R0034671

Job Description:

At Ferring Pharmaceuticals, we help people around the world build families and live better lives. We are entrepreneurial and innovative, with a global team focused on scientific advances in the areas of reproductive and women’s health, gastroenterology and urology.

Ferring + You is all about working together and sharing ideas, so that we can bring science to life for patients around the world.

Our Commercial teams collaborate as trusted partners with patient groups, clinicians, policy makers and the scientific community to identify and develop new opportunities to help patients. Customer centric, we offer an empowering, entrepreneurial culture – and a place to thrive and grow.

Ferring+You

You will contribute to the definition, development and management of a planning and management control system able to ensure the company achieves its business results, through the coordination of the budgeting process, the collection, assessment and analysis of results, and support the interpretation and making of decisions. The role reports to the country Finance Director.

Your day at Ferring

Period end closing and reporting:

• Ensure key controlling task and analytical processes in our month closing (e.g Purchase order accruals, right postings and accuracy and other ensuring high quality)

• Perform analytical review

• Perform Internal Controls

• Costing: Perform variance analysis

• Support FD to analyse Transfer price schemes in coordination with CoE (Lisbon) and FD.

Inventory management and validation:

• Coordinate with supply chain accuracy for the forecasting process in coordination with the business, FD and Regional SNO team.

• Provide financial advice about the potential financial effects of not having the product supplies on time. Help build back up plans in coordination with logistics

Financial budgeting and planning:

• Contribute to achieving financial ambitious goals and targets; and challenge budget of other departments and of other organizational units if applicable

• Forecast P&L and cash flow

• Coordinate with the FD budget, forecast, business plan processes

• Ensure high level of forecast financial accuracy and meet working capital targets.

Projects and improvements:

• Support Regional WEC/HQ/Corporate Finance in the implementation of corporate Finance programs, processes or procedures which are to be locally applied.

• Contribute to performance management and drive continuous improvement initiatives e.g. propose standardized and coordinated use of financial information systems, identify and propose optimization measures

Management reporting and forecasting:

• Prepare period financial forecast

• Analyse on a monthly basis product P&Ls and ensure and heads up as needed the right allocations vs planned.

• Evaluate financial performance by advise and challenge the business with timely and proactive analyses, assessments of variances to the plans, financial impacts and risks; provide management information to other departments; inform timely on any unexpected issue impacting potentially the financial performance of the Country and Area, propose/implement corrective actions; identify areas of improvement in business and organization and propose implementation plan, monitor key ratios; identify & implement synergies across the country; propose efficiency improvement measures

Compliance and integrity:

• Strict implementation and adherence to internal guidelines (ICS matrix), instructions, processes and systems, local as well as global

• Contribute in internal audits and external in the controlling area.

• Strict adherence to the local fiscal and finance related regulations of the respective country

• Risk management: Inform relevant parties timely on potential issues, assess the risks and propose corrective measures

Collaboration:

• Collaborate with the CoE in all accounting and analytical processes.

• Collaborate with SDM’s to ensure smooth service delivery

• Collaborate with GPO to work on continuous process improvements

• Collaborate with BPO to ensure a smooth relationship and a seamless delivery of the in-scope finance activities

Finance strategy and business partnering:

• Advise and challenge business with timely and proactive analyses, assessments of variances to the plans, financial impacts and risks.

• Provide Management Information to other departments

• Inform timely on any unexpected issue impacting potentially the financial performance of the Country and Area.

• Propose/implement corrective actions.

• Identify areas of improvement in business and organization and propose implementation plan.

• Monitor key ratios.

Behind our innovation…There is you

• University master’s degree in finance or economics

• ACCA / CIMA / ACA

• 7 years’ experience in finance and at least 2 years’ working experience as finance analyst in a multinational environment

• Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to manage internal and external stakeholders

• Accomplishes goal and meets deadlines in a self-directed manner and with strong attention to detail, contributing to team objectives

• Organises and manages multiple priorities and projects, including concurrent demands and resource limitations

• Analytical, quantitative and problem-solving skills

• Effective communicator, both written and verbal with strong presentation skills

• Possesses strong IT skills (MS Office, Teams, business software applications such as SAP)

People come first at Ferring.

• Get inspired from our commitment to advocate for everyone’s right to build a family, no matter who you are, where you live or who you love.

• Our inclusive support package – “Building Families at Ferring” provides equal and accessible policies for all employees who wish to start their family journey, ensuring a global standard, irrespective of location and role.

• Parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents

• Extended support on family building journey.

Making a difference in the life of millions of people means we succeed by working together. Our diverse backgrounds, experiences, expertise, and perspectives enable us to find solutions to even the most challenging problems, and our success is tied to each team member’s contributions. Imagine the power of your career when it’s Ferring + You.

Behind our purpose… There is you.

If our mission and your vision are aligned, please apply!

We strive to build and maintain an inclusive and diverse workplace with equal opportunities and mutual respect for all employees regardless of their backgrounds and socioeconomic status.

Location:

Ferring UK

Supporting our employees' family building journeys

At Ferring, we’re committed to advocating everyone’s right to build a family. That’s why we’re launching our most inclusive and comprehensive family building benefits package yet.

The package recognises the complexities of building a family and aims to remove financial barriers associated with fertility treatment and family building options, by providing financial support and a global minimum standard of 26-weeks of paid parental leave. We’ll offer support for fertility treatments, surrogacy programmes, adoption, egg freezing, counselling and related services, as well as paid leave for fertility treatment and adoption procedures.

Ferring Project Family

At Ferring, we believe in everyone’s right to a family and we commit to building families of every shape and size.

Millions of people around the world are unable to access the care, treatment and support they need to build a family. We want to change that.

We are addressing some of the greatest challenges in reproductive medicine and maternal health through our research and development programmes.

Learn more about our #FamilyProject Commitment

Driven by its entrepreneurial spirit and enabled by a decentralised organisational setup, Ferring will harness its world-class competencies in science and business with other innovative technologies to create solutions for patients and doctors.
By developing an understanding of people’s needs, we will deliver personalised healthcare solutions, integrating pharmaceutical products with diagnostics, data, devices, education and support services to optimise health outcomes.

Ferring will be the world-leading, most trusted healthcare company in reproductive medicine and maternal health, and a leader in specialty areas within gastroenterology and urology. Each of us at Ferring will contribute to providing innovative solutions to help people live better lives. We will devote significant research and development investment to new therapeutics, life cycle management and next generation healthcare solutions.

As a privately owned, specialty healthcare company that operates globally, Ferring will grow revenues at a rate that is 50% faster than the industry average. We will strive for efficiencies in our business and create flexibility to invest in opportunities to build our future.

We are, and continue to be, part of a transparent and aligned company. We strive to best address the needs of patients, stakeholders and customers by collaborating across functions, experimenting and sharing our practices, and continuously learning. We are always guided by the Ferring Philosophy.

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