Junior FP&A Analyst - Basildon - Pharmanovia

Description

Overview

Junior FP&A Analyst

Basildon, Essex (hybrid role: 3 days office, 2 days home per week)

Salary: Competitive + Benefits + Bonus

Kickstart your finance career We're looking for detail-oriented, analytical professionals with 1–2 years of experience in financial analysis and reporting who are eager to grow and make an impact.

Join us to help improve peoples' lives and make healthcare better for everyone

Why Pharmanovia?

Pharmanovia is a dynamic, fast-growing international pharmaceutical company with a portfolio of over 20 brands across more than 160 markets. Our mission is to improve patient health globally through the revitalisation of niche, tried-and-trusted medicines.

Our core behaviours

• We act decisively but we never compromise on quality.
• We keep our promises and do as we say.
• We value our heritage and foster an entrepreneurial spirit.
• We reinvest in our future - in our products, our brands and our people.
• We give back to our communities.

Since its inception in 2013, Pharmanovia has grown consistently year on year, focusing on delivering high-quality branded prescription medicines to patients, prescribers, and healthcare providers across the world. Our growth has enabled the company to reinvest in its products, brands, people, and to give back to its communities. A people business with a strong, supportive culture that encourages innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, our team comprises over 300 employees and 29 nationalities, operating from offices in the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Germany, U.A.E., India, Australia and Singapore.

We are an agile, committed, and innovative global specialty pharma business and a preferred partner for innovator pharma companies, instigating a paradigm shift in the life cycle management of iconic medicines. We seek to extensively engage with clinical communities to communicate product improvements and prioritise environmental, social, and governance considerations across the business and workforce.

Pharmanovia's therapeutic areas include Cardiovascular, Oncology, Endocrinology and Neurology.

About the role

This is an exciting role in which, as Junior FP&A Analyst, you will be responsible for supporting the FP&A team in preparing data for budgeting, forecasting, and monthly reporting. Producing and maintaining the monthly Management Information pack, you will be conveying key business detail in various forms to internal and external stakeholders, you will support the explanation of complex financial drivers to senior leaders throughout the business, with varying levels of financial understanding.

You will have the opportunity to be involved in the development of models in support of routine reporting and forecasting, complex supporting analyses and will assist in the Q&A process as part of building and maintaining strong investor relations.

With a strong numerical background, you will have the ability to demonstrate your excellent communication and presentation skills, and work diligently towards tight deadlines both independently and as part of a team.

This unique role combines close cross-functional collaboration, collecting information and assumptions, and crafting comprehensive models to best support wider functions of the business, particularly through supporting the business partnership requirement of the team.

This role sits within Finance and reports directly into the Manager, FP&A.

Main responsibilities & duties

• Assist with budgeting/forecast processes, including managing workflows, communications and data gathering/ consolidation
• Preparation of monthly Management Information pack for internal and external stakeholders
• Ensure timely updates of routine forecast information and supporting key stakeholders in their inputs
• Assistance with maintaining strong investor relations, by preparing ad-hoc data analysis for external stakeholders
• Preparation of regular and ad-hoc reporting to Executive Team from both a budgeting and forecasting perspective and a monthly reporting perspective
• Supporting business partnership activities, guiding Market Owners and Department Heads to ensure accuracy of information between Budget & Actuals
• Assist wider business functions as required on an ad-hoc basis, such as assistance in financial modelling for potential M&A and licencing opportunities

About you

Looking to grow your finance career? If you have 1 to 2 years of experience in financial planning and reporting - ideally in pharma, retail, manufacturing, or a similar commercial setting - you could be a great fit for this role. We are also looking for:

• 1-2 years' experience in understanding of practices, processes and exposure to financial systems
• Bachelor's degree (minimum 2:1) in finance or a quantitative discipline
• Strong numerical skills
• Excellent standard of written and verbal communication in business English; able to relate to stakeholders at all levels and from different cultural backgrounds
• Intermediate to advanced Excel and PowerPoint, with an understanding of other relevant forecasting/reporting tools desirable
• Ability to maintain resilience, learn quickly and navigate ambiguity
• Detail-oriented and organised, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret and analyse complex financial and technical data

What we offer

We offer a competitive salary plus bonus and rewards package including holiday, health & wellbeing program, employee recognition awards, social events, pension scheme and hybrid working.

By applying for this role, your details will be sent to Ortolan People, who are engaged to provide recruitment support in processing applications. We will endeavour to respond to all applicants within three working days. Occasionally for roles with a very high volume of applicants, this may not be possible.