Finance Manager
Hybrid or Remote Working
About ApotheCom
We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Manager to join our ApotheCom team.
ApotheCom is an exciting leader in the field of medical communications. Drawn together from several backgrounds including the pharmaceutical industry, research, marketing, medical and regulatory writing, sales, publishing, digital media and design, we have the experience and all-round ability to conceive and deliver the best quality medical communications programmes.
About the role
Key responsibilities will include:
- Manage monthly accounting close for financial reporting, for 6 entities with flash revenue reporting and final reporting in accordance with agreed deadlines.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to prepare management reporting packs to specified timeframes.
- Provide commentary against budget, latest forecast and prior year, including identifying and setting up reporting for KPIs.
- Support preparation & maintenance of rolling forecasts of the P&L, ensuring changing business needs and activities are captured.
- Responsible for correct accounting of costs and maintaining control of consolidated balance sheet.
- Prepare and maintain cash flow forecast (both direct, and indirect).
- Work with external accountants and internal subject matter experts to complete statutory and tax reporting for geographies as required.
- Prepare reports as required by the Inizio Group including tax, treasury and accounting queries.
- Review overhead expense accounts, preparing month end journal entries for accruals and mis postings and preparing correction journals where necessary.
- Line management of 1 Finance team member.
About you:
To succeed in this role, you will have:
- ACCA, ACA or CIMA qualified with 2 years PQE.
- Previous experience of managing the month end process including flash reporting, preparation of management reporting packs and providing commentary against budget.
- Previous experience with intercompany accounting.
- Strong teamworking skills, with the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
- Ability to work on own initiative with a pro-active approach to work.
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills, with advanced experience in Excel (including experience with pivot tables and Power Query).
- Demonstrable experience of developing and maintaining strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience of working with accounting software, experience with Maconomy or Oracle is highly desirable.
- Previous line management experience is desirable.
- Keen attention to detail expertise, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and prioritise work to set timelines.
In addition to a great compensation and benefits package including private medical insurance and a company pension, we are happy to talk dynamic working. We are also known for our friendly and informal working environment with Friday socials across our offices, regular wellbeing weeks, and Town Hall events. We offer excellent opportunities for career and personal development.
We are committed to promoting a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging. We believe that strength in diversity and inclusivity is a driver of our success.
Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.
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What We Do
ApotheCom is a Global Medical Communications Powerhouse with offices in London, Leeds, Yardley, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Boston, Lebanon, Auckland, Tokyo and Johannesburg.
Our mission is to be an effective and proactive broker of collaborative and sustained engagement for the healthcare community, to drive meaningful change and positive outcomes.
ApotheCom is uniquely able to create and deploy teams across many geographies, pulling on specialized skills and specific market expertise. The team comprises 130 PhDs and PharmDs and more than 250 content developers who understand how to tell the scientific, clinical, and value stories to reach specific audiences.
The global team structure supports dedicated practice areas in Scientific Communications and Publications, Medical Education and Access Pathways and Outcomes in addition to therapeutic areas of excellence across chronic diseases, oncology, vaccines and infectious diseases, cell and genes therapies and specialized medicine. The matrix structure has been created to fuel innovation and flexibility, with increased specialization and focus on multi-functional team working. At our core, we bring data agility, integrated evidence planning, scientific and value storytelling, convergence of technology and insight-driven problem-solving.
Our single, global team structure with dedicated practice areas and defined therapeutic expertise has been specifically designed to remove every barrier to being able to provide the best expertise in the right place and at the right time for our clients.
ApotheCom is part of Inizio Medical. Inizio is a strategic partner for health and life sciences with a full suite of medical, marketing, advisory and engagement services.
