Senior Project Finance Analyst - US

Novotech Global•South San Francisco, CA

1d•$100,000 - $120,000

About The Position

The Senior Project Finance Analyst is responsible for ensuring excellence in financial management and controls across their assigned projects and portfolio. This is an individual contributor role working closely with Project Managers to manage project profitability, realisation, client reporting and systems support/maintenance.

Requirements

Graduate in a finance, clinical or life sciences related field.
3-5 years of experience within the pharmaceutical/CRO industry or related field.
Strong financial acumen with a desire to drive business performance and accountability.
Must have high level of proficiency in Microsoft office, specifically advanced Excel skills.
Experience with SalesForce/Certinia ERP ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Ensure revenue recognition and forecasting support is provided throughout the lifecycle of all projects within assigned portfolios.
Provide business partnering analysis on realization, profitability, budgets & forecasts on assigned projects. Support Project Managers to identify and develop plans to resolve areas of poor financial performance. Ensure financial excellence targets are met on all assigned projects- realization, profitability, maintenance of deferred revenue balance where appropriate.
Liaise with Project Management personnel offering timely advice, support and resolution to issues and omissions in month end financial process. Provide insight to senior management on project movements compared to forecast and contract on assigned projects.
Manage the month end processes on assigned projects as they relate to revenue and forecast management, and project performance.
Oversee project finance close out activities; complete final budget reconciliation in collaboration with PM and other stakeholders, including client, sites and third-party vendors. Ensure compliance with any contracted project finance requirements for completed projects.