Job Description
General Summary:
The Vertex International Financial Team is integral to delivering Vertex’s mission of creating transformative medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. You will be working as part of a dynamic and diverse organisation alongside outstanding people who are forward thinking, collaborative and recognised leaders in their areas. The individual will report to the Senior Finance Director at Vertex’s International Headquarters in Paddington. The individual will use their business acumen and enterprise leadership mindset to play an active part on the cross functional country leadership team with a focus on providing Finance partnering support including forecasting, performance management, accounting, and internal controls.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage the monthly sales and production forecasting process by partnering with Commercial, Medical, and Supply Chain teams to understand and forecast patient and sales dynamics, and report relevant KPIs to leadership
- Work with UKI cross-functional business leads to ensure well informed investment decisions for the annual budget and monthly forecasting processes in line with company priorities
- Support International finance on long-range planning cycle to understand and forecast UKI dynamics
- Part of core deal team working to unlock reimbursement in the region; lead on all financial analysis in support of these third-party contract negotiations
- Provide timely and accurate financial reporting vs. budget and forecast for country, regional, and financial leadership
- Collaborate with line managers and the Accounting to ensure proper expense and ensure compliance with internal controls
- Active participation in UK&I Country Leadership Team to drive company culture and cross-functional collaboration
- Drive continuous improvement and participate in international and global projects to represent local needs
Knowledge and Skills:
- Solid experience of working within a finance team, particularly revenue forecasting and opex management
- Strong stakeholder management skills, able to quickly establish credibility and build effective, collaborative, working relationships at all levels.
- Ability to work under pressure whilst still maintaining attention to detail and effective controls
- Ability to manage multiple and competing priorities
- Excellent strategic and implementation skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Business administration, or equivalent business experience
- Professional finance and/or accounting qualification
- Significant experience working for a major company or division of a large corporation, or the equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience in pharmaceutical industry
- Experience working in a multinational organization
- Strong experience in Business Partnering, mainly in Commercial Operations and Finance, different departments such as Internal Controls and Compliance, Strategic planning (Accounting, Budget, Investment analysis, Forecasts, report to local and foreign board of Directors), Market analysis, Treasury (Cash Management, Foreign trade operations, Credit Management, risk management).
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Flex Designation:
Hybrid-Eligible Or On-Site Eligible
Flex Eligibility Status:
In this Hybrid-Eligible role, you can choose to be designated as:
1. Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week; or select
2. On-Site: work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.
Note: The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertex’s Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.
Company Information
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.
Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.
Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the recruiter or hiring manager, or contact Talent Acquisition at [email protected]
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What We Do
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases.
We discovered and developed the first medicines to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF), a rare, life-threatening genetic disease. In addition to clinical development programs in CF, Vertex has more than a dozen ongoing research programs focused on the underlying mechanisms of other serious diseases.
Founded in 1989 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, our corporate headquarters is now located in Boston’s Innovation District, and our international headquarters is in London, United Kingdom. We currently employ approximately 3,500 people in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America with nearly two-thirds of our staff dedicated to research and development.
Vertex is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top places to work by Science Magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal and the San Diego Business Journal. Our research and medicines have also received esteemed recognitions, including the Robert J. Beall Therapeutics Development Award, the French Prix Galien and the British Pharmacological Society awards.
