Finance Business Partner, Avalere Health
Global healthcare communications agency
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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
- Finance or accounting background, ideally ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent
- Proven experience in a Finance Business Partner or FP&A role
- Strong experience working with senior stakeholders in non finance functions
- Confident communicator, able to challenge constructively and explain financial issues clearly
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail
- Comfortable operating in a fast paced environment with competing priorities
- Commercial mindset with a strong sense of ownership
- Confident, credible, and comfortable dealing with senior leadership
- Proactive and solutions focused
- Able to balance control with partnership
What the job involves
- This role is responsible for partnering with key overhead cost centres including IT, Finance, and People
- The Finance Business Partner will own financial oversight, planning, and performance management for these areas, acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders while maintaining strong cost control and commercial challenge
- The role sits within the FP&A team and will also support wider reporting, forecasting, and ad hoc analysis across the business
- Act as the primary finance partner for overhead cost centres including IT, Finance, People, and other corporate functions
- Own monthly cost centre reviews, leading meetings with senior stakeholders to explain actuals vs budget and prior periods
- Provide clear commentary on variances, risks, and emerging cost pressures
- Challenge spend where appropriate and support stakeholders in making informed, commercially sound decisions
- Lead quarterly reforecasting cycles for assigned cost centres, ensuring forecasts are accurate, robust, and well understood
- Play a key role in the annual budgeting process, working closely with stakeholders to build credible budgets aligned to business strategy
- Identify efficiency opportunities and support cost optimisation initiatives
- Support the wider FP&A team on ad hoc projects, analysis, and strategic initiatives
- Assist with CFO and CEO level reporting, presentations, and board materials where required
- Provide analytical support on business cases, investment proposals, and cost benefit analysis
- Build strong, credible relationships with senior leaders across corporate functions
- Confidently present financial information to senior management, including the CFO and CEO
- Act as a finance lead who can influence, challenge, and add value rather than simply report numbers
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).
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