At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on - now and in the future.

The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team are at the forefront of strategic decision making providing impactful analysis and insight for senior leaders. This information is used to help shape the future of the business. This is a great opportunity for you to join a supportive and collaborative team as we expand our presence in Sofia.

Finance Coordinator (FP&A)

This role will form a key part in the reporting of the commercial performance across specific business lines. The authorization reporting is used both internally and externally to represent the movement in our book of work identifying studies that have been awarded to PPD as well as the revenue recognized against these awards. You will be required to make sure that these reported figures reflect commercial reality.

Key relationships will be built with the operations finance as well as the corporate FP&A and commercial operations teams. For the right person this will be a great opportunity to progress.

Key tasks include:

• Month end financial reporting tasks
• Investigation of financial data movements on specific studies
• Working with project teams to ensure that financial data represent commercial reality
• Ensure that the commercial teams are kept up to date with financial targets
• Outside of month end focus will be on process enhancements that can be implemented to improve the speed and quality of month end reporting.

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Good Excel/System skills
• Able to sort through large amounts of data and identify those that require further investigation and remediation
• Good communication skills are required with the ability to talk through issues with others, draw out appropriate conclusions and action solutions.
• An organised approach is required to ensure that multiple issues can all be progressed, tracked and resolved.
• Also need to work well with others so that work is not duplicated or missed.
• Knowledge of the CRO industry and the life cycle of a clinical trial would be an advantage.

What we offer:

At PPD Clinical Research Services we hire the best, develop ourselves and each other, and recognise the power of being one team. We understand that you will want to grow both professionally and personally throughout your career, and therefore at PPD you will benefit from an award-winning learning and development programme, ensuring you reach your potential.

As well as being rewarded a competitive salary, we have an extensive benefits package based around the health and well-being of our employees.

This is a great opportunity to join an expanding team, to develop professionally and to participate in process creation. We have a flexible working culture, where PPD Clinical Research Services truly value a work-life balance. We offer the successful candidate to select between office based or flex work setting, ensuring in-person collaboration with different teams and an opportunity to create a meaningful connection with colleagues. We’ve grown sustainably year on year but continue to offer a collaborative environment, with teams of colleagues eager to share expertise and have fun together. We are a global organisation but with a local feel.

You can apply for the position HERE.

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