Senior Financial Analyst
Cambridge (Hybrid)
This role will be based at the Illumina European Headquarters in Granta Park, Cambridge, for a minimum of one day per week.
Closing date – 22nd March
The role
As Senior Financial Analyst here at Illumina, you will be responsible for business partnering with commercial functions for Illumina’s Europe region, serve as the OPEX/CAPEX leader in the region. This role will report directly to Associate Director, Finance – Europe FP&A and partner closely with Europe Commercial CFO and Head of Region to drive operational efficiency in the region.
Why us
At Illumina, we’re transforming human health through genomics, enabling breakthrough discoveries and innovation. Join a purpose-driven company offering industry-leading benefits, including flexible time off, private medical insurance, a generous pension plan, stock purchasing opportunities, and much more! - all within a culture of collaboration and innovation.
Why you
You are an experienced Senior Financial Analyst with exceptional analytical, communication and collaboration skills. You will enjoy and thrive in a matrix environment and have the ability to work at pace.
Key commercial related scope (80% of Time):
Own OPEX/CAPEX actuals and forecast for Europe level central functions.
Own Europe level OPEX/CAPEX consolidation including the above central functions plus all the sub regions’ submission, being the coordinator to ensure data accuracy and method consistency across all sub-regions’ FBPs.
Be the point of contact with global OPEX counterpart on any inquiries related to Europe OPEX, including monthly forecast, actuals tracking, annual budget, and other ad hoc requests.
Design and implement OPEX analytics to drive operational efficiency, and draw cost profile’s linkage to revenue, margin, profit, and cash flow via innovative analytics and cross functional collaboration.
Be a key enabler in the organizations’ continued efforts in P&L management via streamlining process and repeated training to other non-finance functions and stakeholders.
Other non-commercial related scope (20% of Time):
Own OPEX/CAPEX actuals and forecast for Europe Facilities, EHS, GIS.
Responsibilities:
Understand various sub-regional practices in finance processes, assess pain points or improvement opportunities and drive simplification across the board.
Design and produce standard reports or analytics tools for sub-regional teams to use in a consistent manner to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
Provide high quality financial insight and guidance to stakeholders based on commercial understanding of the business, market context and underlying business strategy to support decision making processes.
Analyse and interpret investment spend and performance, highlighting and understanding issues and opportunities with appropriate recommendations.
To work closely with the Country / Sub-regional Teams to improve reporting and financial procedures, across Europe.
Act as a catalyst for change and proactively challenge decision-making based on sound financial and commercial reasoning.
Attend and be an integral part of senior team meetings with the relevant functions providing financial insight and commercial context.
Support the budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes.
Manage weekly and monthly performance reporting and produce specific reporting against strategic initiatives where required.
Challenge processes identify weaknesses and provide recommendations to support the development of more robust processes and controls.
Monitor performance against targets on a weekly/ monthly basis, including month end reporting.
Produce ad-hoc analysis as required.
Preferred Educational Background:
College/University Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related field. MS or MBA and/or CPA/CIMA/ACCA/ACA or equivalent preferred.
Preferred Experiential Background:
Related experience, preferably in a high growth environment, or large organization (pharma, life science is a plus)
Advance skills and experience with TM1, Cognos and IBM Planning analytics, is required or similar
Strong understanding of corporate financing principles; budgeting processes, forecasting, financial modelling, etc.
Proven ability to evaluate and solve complex problems and the strategic implications of different business approaches.
Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills required.
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