**Senior Manager-FPandA

Senior Manager-FP&A (Budgeting & Forecasting/Financial Planning & Analysis/Opex Management & Business Partnering

Instrumental in shaping financial performance insights and supporting informed business decisions across Pharmanovia. The role will oversee monthly reporting and maintenance of the Management Information (MI) pack, communicating key business insights to internal and external stakeholders and translating complex financial drivers into clear, meaningful insights for senior leaders with varying levels of financial understanding. It will own the annual Budgeting process, quarterly reforecasts and Long Range Plan, ensuring the adoption of best practices and driving process improvements. The successful candidate will bring a strong numerical background, excellent communication and presentation skills, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively to deliver diligently against tight deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

• Ownership of the budgeting/ forecast processes, including managing workflows, collaboration with key stakeholders/ effective communications and data gathering/ consolidation

• Preparation of monthly Management Information pack for key internal stakeholders, ensuring appropriate communication and capability to build an effective narrative

• Ownership of the consolidated Risk & Opportunities process, ensuring accurate and timely information to drive strategic decision making

• Ensure timely updates of routine forecast information & supporting key stakeholders in their inputs

• Ownership of Opex Finance Business Partnership, maintaining strong relations with cost centre owners

• Leading development of building an underlying opex database, ensuring we can improve management of opex, and better underpin project related costings for the business

• Preparation of regular and ad-hoc reporting to Executive Team from both a budgeting and forecasting perspective and a monthly reporting perspective

• Collaborating with the Finance team, Market Owners and Department Heads to ensure accuracy of information between Budget & Actuals

• Assist wider business functions as required on an ad-hoc basis

• Development of the FP&A team, ensuring well developed career paths for direct reports

• Maintenance and management of Purchase Order process, ensuring end to end support across the business

• Ownership of PowerBI from a Finance perspective, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness of automated reporting, and driving continuous improvement

Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Finance, Mathematics, Economics or a quantitative based related field

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ Years Experience in Finance, including an understanding of practices, processes and exposure to financial systems

• Experience in developing effective financial communications to senior management

• Prior experience implementing financial systems

• Experience in the Pharmaceutical industry, particularly related to departmental structure and key areas of cost

• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret and analyse complex financial and technical data

• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint), with understanding of other relevant forecasting/reporting tools desirable

• Basic understanding of pharmaceutical industry along with willingness to develop in-depth expertise

• Detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously

• Excellent standard of written and verbal communication in business English; able to relate to stakeholders at all levels and from different cultural backgrounds with varying degrees of financial understanding

What we offer (benefits & career development)

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Opportunities to develop finance expertise and contribute to process improvement initiatives.

• An inclusive workplace culture that supports collaboration and work-life balance.

How to apply (application process & equal opportunities)

Please submit your CV outlining your relevant experience. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.