Finance Project Team Lead, Avalere Health
Global healthcare communications agency
Be an early applicant
Global healthcare communications agency
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To imagine new possibilities for a healthier world and create the connections that make better health happen.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years’ experience with progressive experience across accounting / finance or graduate of finance leadership rotational program with strong technical & leadership skills able to operate in a fast paced and challenging environment
- Proven leadership and coaching skills managing a diverse team in remote locations
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to operate through ambiguity and establish clarity and direction
- Excellent time management, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Self-starter, organized and able to prioritize effectively without day-to-day oversight
- High attention to detail with 'big picture' awareness
- Compelling influencing skills to drive initiatives while collaborating cross-functionally
- Committed to continuous improvement
- Proficient with Microsoft Office packages, Adobe WorkFront and Oracle NetSuite (desirable)
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Avalere Health Controller, this role will support our project delivery, finance and operations teams across Avalere Health
- This role will collaborate with our client delivery, project management and commercial finance teams to ensure the financial health of the business and consistency and applicable financial controls
- The ideal candidate is a self-starter with prior experience connecting finance, accounting and operations and continuously looks for continuous improvement opportunities to meet changing business needs while leading, coaching and developing a team of finance professionals fostering a culture of growth, accountability and continuous learning
- Establish new company-wide processes to support project finance activities considering financial controls while obtaining cross-functional alignment across project management, client services, finance capabilities and accounting teams
- Lead team of 8-10 project finance professionals located across the US and UK
- Collaborate with project management (PM) and client service (CS) teams to manage financial data inside WorkFront and NetSuite systems including setting up new clients and programs, managing on going revenue recognition, and owning project cash management activities including invoicing and project cash projections
- As owner of Revenue Recognition with outside auditors, review monthly client budgets and actuals with our CS and PM teams to verify billing and revenue recognition
- Support the Finance capability teams in key initiatives including margin by client, recovery, invoicing analytics, forecasting indicators and development of business KPIs
- Manage Accrued Revenue and Deferred Liabilities and ensure balances are updated and reconciled to maximize cash flow
- Assist Finance capability teams with reporting requirements for monthly, quarterly and annual cycles as well as ad-hoc client reporting needs
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives especially around newly implemented project management software
Our take
Avalere Health, founded in 2001 and formerly known as Fishawack, has built a strong reputation as a leading provider of cross-border strategy consultation, communications, and marketing expertise for companies in the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.
Though the company doesn’t make its exact customer list public knowledge, it does claim to serve all of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies in the world, as well as a number of breakout biotech and medtech enterprises. In the over two decades since its founding, it has acquired and merged 19 healthcare firms worldwide - including Avalere Health from which it takes its new name.
Given that it’s grown from one location in the UK to encompass teams across the US, Europe, and Asia, the company appears to operate from a position of serious strength in this trillion-dollar space. Recently, it seems Avalere has focussed on building out its leadership team as it embraces its new branding and manifesto.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- The tools, skills, and support you need to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges
- Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career
- Personalized learning and training
- Hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization
- Flexible working practices
- Company pension/retirement plan
- Private medical insurance
- Employee wellbeing initiatives
- Compelling time-off policy
Company HQ
Knutsford, UK
Leadership
Jon Koch
(CEO)Was hired as CEO in 2021 after spending three years as SVP and CEO of the Global Dental Group at Henry Schein. Prior to this they spent more than 11 years in General Management, VP, and Group President roles at pharmaceuticals company Covance (now Labcorp Drug Development).
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 4 more jobs at Avalere Health