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    Finance Operations Director - Montréal, QC, Canada - Charles River Laboratories

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    For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we'll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.

    Job Summary

    As a finance operations director for our finance team in Senneville (West of Montreal), you will be accountable for planning, directing and controlling the finance functions for applicable site, including budget development and control, financial analysis activities. Support with developing and implementing a strategy for the business, ensuring alignment with the company's overall business and financial strategies through effective business partnering.

    In this role, primary responsibilities include:

    • Lead the finance function as daily business partners to the site GM and SLT, providing guidance, advice and direction on both site strategy and operational matters.
    • Regularly interact with and support site leadership to connect departments together and drive collaboration across the site to accelerate business performance.
    • Develop and refine a commercial cadence and awareness at the site the drives business performance awareness across functions and levels of the organization.
    • Own the development of a best-in-class function that has personal development, cross-training and a clear vision for their purpose within the organization.
    • Develop and administer accurate weekly and monthly forecasting and annual budget preparation; assume full accounting budgetary responsibility for assigned business.
    • Prepare and present financials and key indicators for business reviews, management reporting, budget and strategic planning.
    • Prepare analysis of monthly, quarterly and annual financials compared to forecast, budget and prior year, including market impacts, currency fluctuations, etc.
    • Perform monthly revenue posting and analysis of revenue activities, including: monthly revenue verification; forecast variance analysis; contract reviews; bookings and cancellations reports; utilization; and pricing.
    • Perform complex analyses including year-to-year comparisons and margins on new goods and/or services for forecasting and pricing purposes.
    • Develop, and analyze appropriate key performance indicators optimally to improve business performance
    • Develop, and analyze cost analytics, including but not limited to standard costings, absorption analysis for performance of the business.
    • Develop, and analyze commercial analytics, such as customers, service line profitability and price/volume/mix.
    • Develop, and analyze competitive intelligence. This includes understanding key competitors, monitoring and reporting financial performance where applicable and helping the business to determine strategies and tactics to respond to competitive dynamics.
    Job Qualifications

    We are looking for the following minimum qualifications for this role:
    • Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent required.
    • 8-10 years related experience in accounting or finance, with a minimum of 2 years' experience in financial analysis.
    • An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.
    • MBA, CPA or CMA designation preferred.
    • Comprehensive understanding of operational, sales and financial issues for business unit required.
    Why Charles River ?
    • Competitive benefits as of the hiring. We pay up to 85% of premiums (health & dental coverage)
    • Employee and family assistance program
    • Access to a doctor and various health professionals (telemedicine)
    • 4 weeks' vacation & 10 sick/personal days per year
    • Free on-site gym
    • On-site cafeteria
    • Many social activities
    If you are interested in contributing to the well-being of our communities, not only across the country but around the world, please join us.

    This is Your Moment.

    About Safety Assessment
    Charles River is committed to helping our partners expedite their preclinical drug development with exceptional safety assessment services, state-of-the-art facilities and expert regulatory guidance. From individual specialty toxicology and IND enabling studies to tailored packages and total laboratory support, our deeply experienced team can design and execute programs that anticipate challenges and avoid roadblocks for a smooth, efficient journey to market. Each year approximately 300 investigational new drug (IND) programs are conducted in our Safety Assessment facilities.

    About Charles River
    Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients' clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

    With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client's unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.

    At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people's lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly supported the development of 86% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2021.

    Equal Employment Opportunity

    Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

    If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

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