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Finance Director Operations
Req ID #: 204517
Location:
US Freiburg, DE, 79108 Chicago, IL, US, 60654 Detroit, MI, US, 48201 Hampstead, NC, US, 28443 Montreal (Senneville), Quebec, CA, H9X 3R3 Cambridge, MA, US, 02139 Boston, MA, US, 02116 Zurich, CH Worcester, MA, US, 01608 Ballina, IE, F26D786 Saint Germain Nuelles, FR
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
For 70 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
We are seeking a Finance Director, Operations to join our Biologics finance team. The finance director will support all aspects of the Biologics business. This role will have one direct report.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Working with the site teams to develop and administer accurate weekly and monthly forecasting and annual budget preparation
• Preparing financial summaries including key performance indicators for business reviews, management reporting, budgeting, and strategic planning
• Preparing analysis of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results compared to forecast, budget, and prior year, including market impacts, currency fluctuations, etc.
• Performing complex analyses including year-to-year comparisons and determining margins on new goods and/or services for forecasting and pricing purposes
• Developing, implementing, and analysing appropriate key performance indicators optimally to improve business performance
• Developing and analysing cost analytics, including but not limited to standard costings and absorption analysis for performance of the business
• Developing, implementing, and analysing commercial analytics, such as customer performance, service line profitability and price/volume/mix
• Working with financial reporting systems to analyse the business and developing into a subject matter expert on our financial reporting systems
• Working closely with Procurement on the CBRE project and with HR on Work Force Planning projects
• Working closely with internal business partners, providing financial expertise on processes and value-added management to support them in achieving their objectives
• Educating internal leaders on budget management to support good understanding of their accountability and ownership
• Developing new approaches, processes, or methods to solve new business problems, acting as an agent of change and continuously re-evaluating process to achieve expected earnings growth
• Assisting Corporate Finance regarding the provision of information to internal and external auditors, including statutory reporting
• Partnering with CRL Tax team to ensure we are meeting obligations, effectively managing associated risks, and ensuring local requirements such as statutory tax reporting, are completed
• Working with Corporate Accounting, Shared Services, Controllers, and Internal Audit staff, ensuring company’s adherence to corporate governance standards (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley), pertinent regulatory requirements and corporate finance/accounting policies, practices, and procedures
Job Qualifications
• Education: Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent required.
• Experience: 10-12 years of progressive experience in accounting or finance, with a minimum of 5 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.
• Certification/Licensure: MBA, CPA or CMA designation preferred.
• Travel: Be willing to travel up to 25%
• Other: Strong leadership, verbal and written communication, project management and organizational skills required. Comprehensive understanding of operational, sales and financial issues for business unit required.
Vaccine Mandate
Charles River is a U.S. Federal Contractor. As a result, we must follow the Presidential Executive Order to mandate vaccinations, and ensure our employees are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Our main priority is the wellbeing, health, and safety of our people. We require proof of vaccination from all employees.
Anyone with requests for disability-related and/or religious exemptions should contact Talent Acquisition (~~~) so that information can be provided about the accommodation process at Charles River.
About Corporate Functions
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.
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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