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: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Avalere Health, we imagine a healthier world and create the connections to make it happen. 

About the role

· Support and drive the key performance indicators of the business unit including financial, operational and project related.

· Produce and communicate results including monthly performance packs, external reporting, and other ad hoc reports.

· Analysis of monthly actuals, quarterly forecast, and annual budget.

· Support and assist in the scenario/strategic planning and other long-range planning covering the full P&L, capex, and headcount.

· Own and understand project revenue recognition, rebates, backlog, and chargeable utilisation.

What you'll do

Financial Planning Analysis

• Support the target setting process for budget, forecast and strategic planning.
• Partner with key stakeholders to prepare and provide clear guidance and KPIs for all financial planning processes and to ensure consistent deliveries with sufficient information to explain drivers and trends.
• Support the preparation of budget, strategic planning and rolling forecast presentations that will support meetings held with Executive and Operational Committees and Board of Directors.
• Provide insightful analysis, business KPIs, trends and performance that will provide actionable insights to support and influence business decisions.
• Navigate large amounts of data to discern underlying trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Drive continuous process improvement with focus on accuracy, automation, and standardization.
• Partner with wider finance teams to ensure that systems and management reports are properly configured; define and create new insightful reports that can be deployed across the group.
• Support the timely preparation of performance reports and presentations. 

Project Revenue and Related KPIs

• Prepare, analyse, and report the monthly project revenues in accordance with GAAP and company policies.
• Co-ordinates all the inputs in the revenue model including confirmed orders, scope changes and cancellations, project billings.
• Participate, contribute, and adhere to the revenue recognition policy, narrative, and related controls.
• Review project backlog health, accrued/deferred income, and accounts receivables.
• Support the calculation and reporting of project related key performance indicators including but not limited to project profitability, project efficiency/recoverability, chargeable utilisation, delivery FTE, fee per hour/ consultant.
• Prepare, analyse, and report prediction based on capacity planning, backlog burn rate and backlog phasing.
• Serves as a financial liaison for the project management, escalating significant issues within finance and working across departments to resolve issues as required.
• Reviews all significant proposals to ensure they meet corporate profitability and cash targets.
• Supports monthly closing schedule and corporate financial reporting requirements.

Management Accounting

• Support the accounting operations in completing the month end close activities and journal posting as assigned.
• Own the volume rebates process, ensuring that accruals are materially correct, payments made in timely fashion and in line with agreements.
• Analysis and review of intercompany transactions and balances.
• Support in the preparation and review of account analysis for various departments.
• Discuss with the business actual versus forecast/budgets and commentary of variances.
• Assist with internal and external audits.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business Management or equivalent work experience
• 4-6 years of Financial Analyst experience in pharmaceutical, CRO, or Consulting business.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Requires exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, organizational, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
• Excellent financial, communication, and interpersonal skills are as well as a high level of personal motivation to achieve.
• Demonstrated ability to work with confidential and sensitive data is required.
• Ability to perform several tasks simultaneously to meet deadlines and provide leadership to less senior staff.
• Understands end to end processes, key outputs, and understands stakeholders’ expectations.
• Support the implementation of continuous improvement and performance excellence activities.
• Experience in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.

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. 

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