Finance Business Partner - Markham, Canada - Everest Clinical Research

Everest Clinical Research

Verified Company

Markham, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Everest Clinical Research ("Everest") is a full-service contract research organization (CRO) providing a broad range of expertise-based clinical research services to worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries.

We serve some of the best-known companies and work with many of the most advanced drugs, biologics, and medical devices in development today.

Everest has been an independent CRO since 2004 with a strong foundation as a statistical and data management center of excellence.

Building on this foundation, Everest has successfully developed and established itself as a full-service CRO.

Everest's headquarters are located in Markham (Greater Toronto Area), Ontario, Canada with additional sites in Little Falls (Greater New York City Area), New Jersey, USA, and Shanghai (Pudong Zhangjiang New District), China.

Everest is known in the industry for its high quality deliverables, superior customer service, and flexibility in meeting clients' needs.

A dynamic organization with an entrepreneurial origin, Everest continues to experience exceptional growth and great success.

Quality is our backbone, customer-focus is our tradition, flexibility is our strength that's us that's Everest.

To drive continued success, we are seeking committed, skilled, and customer-focused individuals to join our Finance team as a
Finance Business Partner for our Markham, Ontario office.

Reporting to the Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, the Finance Business Partner will support Project Managers and Project Leads in managing the financial health of assigned projects by analyzing and reporting on project performance and assisting with the billing and change order processes.

The incumbent will also participate in and contribute to monthly revenue reporting and quarterly revenue forecasting.

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Monitor the overall health of assigned projects, including but not limited to revenue, gross profit, forecasted hours/costs vs actual hours/costs, billings and project close outs and budget reconciliations.
Serve as a key resource to project managers and management for financial results related to the assigned projects.
Attend project meetings as applicable to support assigned projects to ensure understanding/concurrence of project status, potential issues and the accuracy of the project forecast; and attend monthly project revenue recognition review meetings.
Prepare project level reports for assigned projects such as project profitability reports; and investigate, report and resolve anomalies and unusual trends.
Review executed and proposed Contracts, Authorization to Proceed Agreements, Work Orders, Change Orders and other contract information; review and approve pending Change Orders for assigned projects.
Collaborate with Project Managers to timely prepare project closeout reconciliations including issue identification and escalation, if necessary.
Prepares project level actual versus budget/forecast variance analysis monthly to assist in analyzing project financial results and support the revenue recognition process.
Prepare and analyze project budget, project revenue forecast, resourcing requirement, revenue backlog and gross profit for the assigned projects.
Serves as a key contact point for interpretation and investigation of financial results for assigned projects for Project Mangers, Project Leads and functional/service group leaders.
Produces ad hoc reports as required.
Assist the Senior Manager Financial Planning & Analysis with managing monthly revenue reporting and quarterly revenue forecasting.
Collaborate with others in Finance to support overall department goals and objectives.
Assist in the development and implementation of new procedures and systems to enhance workflows and drive efficiencies and standardization.

QUALIFICATIONS:

A. or B. Comm., or above.
Professional designation of Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA).
At least four (4) years' related experience.
Prior knowledge of the FP&A process.
Excellent analytical skills, problemsolving and critical thinking abilities.
Good organizational skills, flexible, with the ability to adapt and adjust to changing priorities and to manage multiple assignments with challenging/conflicting deadlines.
Detailoriented, customer and quality focused.
Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills. Must be able to clearly explain financial details and concepts in layman's terms.
Selfstarter and thrived in a highgrowth and fastpaced environment.
Advanced computer skills in Microsoft Excel along with strong Word and PowerPoint ability.
Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality.