Finance Director

Job description

**Job Summary:** This role supports various financial analysis and forecasting activities as far as they relate to operations outside the US, including preparation of budgets/forecasts, review and analysis of Actuals, regular and ad-hoc analysis and advice. The role partners the business in the country and liaises with above-country colleagues in the CFO functions outside the US, as well as global head-office colleagues in the CFO functions in the US. The analysis supports critical business decisions. Direct line management of this role sits within Finance, not Accounting; and this role does not record Actuals in the Accounting system. **Key responsibilities:** Act as Finance Partner to the country / site and the GCC: - Participate in and contribute towards site/country and GCC leadership; - Partner the site/country leadership and employees for matters related to Finance and CFO functions, liaise with relevant other CFO teams as required; - Line manage Office Managers and finance employees at local site / country and elsewhere as required. - Partner and support the GCC as required, and line-manage local finance employees, who support deliverables by Finance teams outside India, for example in the US, Europe and Japan. Provide local presence for CFO functions, and act as a steward for corporate governance and compliance with CFO related policies: - Provide Finance support to legal entity / country specific Finance topics; - Key Liaison between Accounting and the subsidiary; review legal entity financial data and financial statements, and work with Accounting to ensure accuracy; - Key Liaison between Corporate Treasury and the subsidiary, ensuring all local operations are adequately funded to meet operating needs. Supplies Treasury with cash forecasts as needed. - Key Liaison between Corporate Tax and the subsidiary, reviewing annual tax filings for the legal entity and ensuring accurate inputs for tax calculations and forecasts. - Provide financial expertise on the country to all functions; - Approve purchase requisitions for the country. Finance Partner local business functions: - Enter forecast into system and present forecasts to relevant management; - Conduct Actuals vs Forecast analysis; - Implement tools and manage the resource planning activities, including FTE utilization across multiple diverse programs and cost centres; - Together with the business own the P&L for the country, take ownership of profitability in the country; - Track, review, and report costs; have Accounting make corrections if required; - Collate accruals and communicate to Accounting to be created at quarter-ends; - Work closely with internal Finance colleagues for corporate needs and deliverables; - Advise the business and the Accounting department on appropriate coding of transactions, so they show up correctly in the prepared analysis later on; - Liaise with stakeholders to track invoices against purchase orders; Support ex-US above-country Finance effort: - Perform tasks related to consolidating budget/forecast for all countries outside the US and financials related to ‘above-country’ management outside the US, and analysis and presentation thereof, as required. **Education & Experience** **Required:** Relevant under-graduate degree, and relevant post-graduate (such as MBA) and/or professional finance-related qualifications Key skills: Ability to deal with ambiguity, proactive and persistent, ability to look at issues from different perspectives 10+ years of relevant post-qualification finance-related work experience, mainly spent in the biotech/pharma industry and/or Shared Service Centre environment