Finance Business Partner (Pharma Agency)

About Avalere Health

Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally.

Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind.

We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity,  SenseMaking allows us to  transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as SenseMakers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.

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The Finance Business Partner will be a strategic partner to the US Marketing leadership team by implementing data driven analytics and scaling financial processes + reporting for Avalere Health’s largest division. They will partner with finance and business leaders to drive reporting and analytics across the business and provide actionable insights. This role has regular exposure to Marketing, commercial and finance senior leaders and will play an active role in supporting and communicating the business strategy and financial management. 

• BUSINESS PARTNER:
• Partner with project delivery and client service leadership teams to track project revenue, staffing allocations and build key performance indicators to ensure financial statements align with business performance
• Provide actionable analysis, insights, and recommendations to maximize financial performance that support commercial decision-making
• Support business as required with new client pricing and staff planning 
• PLANNING AND REPORTING:
• Lead and coordinate the planning (budgets and reforecasts) and reporting processes for US Marketing
• Produce and present high quality & timely divisional weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports, analytics and key metrics to Marketing and finance leadership
• Review and comment on the divisional financial results including key performance indicators and metrics that drive divisional performance to support leadership and board presentations
• Drive change and lead transformation process to establish a best-in-class finance reporting function through technological, process, analysis, and reporting improvements
• ACCOUNTING AND CONTROLS:
• Lead monthly financial reporting and revenue recognition process across workforce management and financial systems
• Liaise with Corporate FP&A, Human Resources and accounting to ensure data accuracy
• Collaborate with accounting / controllership to ensure financial processes and procedures operate within a strong control environment and ensure regulatory compliance
• Own financial reporting timetable in liaison with Controllership and participate and contribute to annual audit for group and local entities

• 5+ years’ experience as a finance business partner or graduate of finance leadership rotational program with strong technical & leadership skills able to operate in a fast paced and challenging environment
• Excellent time management, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Self-starter, organized and able to priorities effectively and work through ambiguity while committed to simplification and continuous improvement
• High attention to detail with 'big picture' awareness
• Compelling influencing skills
• Positive outlook and generates enthusiasm and energy with a determined, can-do approach
• Proficient with Microsoft Office packages, Adobe WorkFront and Oracle NetSuite (desirable) 

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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