Commercial Finance Manager
Full Time Permanent role
Citywest Office
The Role:
As part of our Uniphar Pharma Finance team, the Commercial Finance Manager will play a key role in driving business performance by providing financial analysis, strategic insights and decision support to our finance teams.
Main duties & responsibilities
- Commercial Finance: Work with the business leaders to understand business drivers, provide financial support & reporting, insights and analysis, detailed commercial analysis of trends/ customers/ products, including tender/ contract review, modelling & transaction/opportunity analysis.
- M&A: Support financial integration of acquisitions, complete detailed review of new acquired entity processes across financial report, tax, commercial finance. Work with newly acquired entities to identify gaps and develop plans and processes to ensure effective financial efficient integration, meeting group deadlines. Manage finance set of new organic opportunities (eg: roll out new entities, contracting, end to end set up of new profit streams)
- Reporting: Responsibility for preparation and presentation of monthly business reporting packs unit (incorporating multiple entities) to tight deadlines. Provide financial insight and support to drive positive business outcomes, development of a suite of KPIs to track performance, identify risks and opportunities.
- Financial control: Work with entity finance teams to ensure an accurate and timely month end close. Complete monthly control review of each entity, incorporating detailed review of entity P&L, balance sheet and overall operations.
- Audit : Work with entity finance teams to deliver Group audit requirements (internal & external). Review of entity statutory accounts. Ownership and co-ordination of divisional risk register, divisional finance governance manual and divisional accounting policies.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify improvement opportunities that drive ensure strong foundation of financial control with common processes in place across all entities. Work with teams to implement process improvements that drive commercial and financial results. Roll out project plans and manage implementation across world wide entities
- People Management: Build, manage and develop the finance teams across multiple entities and geographies.
Requirements:
- Qualified Chartered Accountant with 5+ years PQE
- Strong Commercial Acumen is essential
- Excellent communication skills and presentation skills, with demonstrated experience working with non-financial managers
- High level of computer literacy (SAP preferred) with strong financial systems & process knowledge, experience of financial controls and procedures
- Experience in working with ever evolving and growing environments, demonstrated flexibility to manage competing priorities
- Someone who is ambitious and dynamic, looking to challenge themselves and develop their career
Location/ Travel
This role will be a Hybrid role between our Citywest office and working remotely. The successful candidate will be required onsite 2/3 days per week and during specific financial dates throughout the year.
This role will involve travel to multi-site locations
Uniphar Background
Uniphar Group is a rapidly expanding diversified healthcare services business with a global footprint and a proud heritage in Ireland. Since Uniphar became a publicly listed company in 2019, the Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions, which continue to strengthen Uniphar’s international reach. With a workforce of more than 3,000 spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and medtech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines and treatments around the world.
Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Uniphar Supply Chain & Retail, Uniphar Medtech and Uniphar Pharma
Please note that Uniphar is an equal-opportunity employer; we do not discriminate and welcome all responses.
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