Financial Planning & Analysis - Administrative

Financial Analyst (Hybrid)

Join our team as a financial analyst and shape the future of smart decision making. Are you a data-driven thinker with a passion for turning numbers into actionable insights? Are you a pro-active and hands on business partner, that welcomes the opportunity to reach new heights? Then we would like to hear from you!
In this pivotal role you will oversee cost analysis processes, drive financial efficiency, and contribute to the overall financial health of the organization. You will leverage your expertise to provide insights that drive decision-making and optimize resource allocation across the company. By using various systems, you provide financial support, analysis, business cases, reports and presentation materials for management. The role requires a reach into an international organization to deliver meaningful change.

About you role:
•    Partner with cross functional teams, to review KPI's and resource metrics regularly, and to drive resource optimization, operational efficiency and profitability.
•    Work directly with leadership on budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning. 
•    Dive deep into financial data to identify trends, risks and opportunities by analyzing & maintaining complex data and extract and define relevant information. 
•    Develop financial models to support key business decisions and investments.
•    Analyze and track operational metrics including but not limited to capacity and productivity metrics. And help business leaders identify trends, understand their performance, and the drivers of results.
•    Produce & enhance meaningful management reports and establish a regular cadence with cost center owners on reporting and initiate joint action plans to improve. 
•    Drive process improvements, efficiency, and time savings, eliminating waste and non-value add activities.
•    Support the European Finance Lead by consolidating financial data working together with various sites and create high quality PowerPoints summarizing financial performance and key metrics for senior leadership
•    Leverages advanced knowledge of systems, as cleaning and organizing large datasets using advance Excel techniques, building dashboards using PowerBI and extracting/submitting financial data into SAP/SAC.

What You Bring:
•    Education: a bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in finance, economics or a related field. Advanced education preferred;
•    Experience: minimum 3-5 years related experience in a similar job preferable in a pharmaceutical, laboratory or research environment;
•    Hands on, strong analytical and modeling skills;
•    Clear communication skills, proactive mindset and attention to detail. Possesses analytical thinking and problem-solving skills and ability to multi-task.

What we offer: 
We offer a competitive benefits package, including:
•    27.5 vacation days plus 2 collective days per year. 
•    Option to purchase 10 additional vacation days per year. 
•    Annual 8% vacation pay based on your gross salary. 
•    Annual performance-based payment based on company results. 
•    Travel allowance of €0.23 per kilometer, up to €250 net per month, or an NS Business Card. 
•    Bicycle (lease) plan. 
•    Collective pension with a 2.9% personal contribution. 
•    Opportunity to play sports with colleagues on our on-site sports field. 
•    Access to our in-house ergonomist for consultations. 
•    Free fresh fruit every day in our cafeteria. 

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