Finance & Accounting Manager

About Avalere Health

Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.

Our 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology — to create the connections that make better health happen.

Avalere Health partners with its clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.

We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Avalere Health, we imagine a healthier world and create the connections to make it happen.

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About The Role

Reporting to the US Marketing Finance Director, this leadership role will support our project delivery, finance and operations teams across Avalere Health’s US Marketing business. This role will collaborate with our client delivery, project management and commercial finance teams to ensure the financial health of the business and consistency and applicable financial controls. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with prior experience connecting finance, accounting + operations with proven ability to lead a team. The candidate is always looking for continuous improvement opportunities to meet changing business needs.

What You'll Do

• Accounting Responsibilities:
• Coordinate invoicing for $120m revenue and $100m pass through and drive analytics around billing and cash collection and liaise with external counterparts.
• Manage AR + AP Ledgers for US Marketing business and ensure data is updated and reconciled.
• Collaborate with Group Accounting to prepare month end reporting packages, monthly journal entries and overhead expense management.
• Support annual financial audit and champion continuous improvement initiatives especially around newly implemented project management software.
• Finance Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with project management (PM) and client service (CS) teams to manage financial data inside WorkFront and NetSuite systems including setting up new projects, managing on going revenue recognition and employee labor and ensuring proper alignment between operations, finance and systems.
• Review monthly client budgets and actuals with our CS and PM teams to verify billing, revenue recognition, under-servicing/over-servicing of staff plans.
• Prepare labor reports and coordinate with CS / PM teams to ensure timely invoicing and cash collection.
• Support the Finance team in key initiatives including margin by client, recovery, invoicing analytics, forecasting indictors and development of business KPIs.
• Collaborate with CS, PM and finance team to ensure client profitability and regularly identify and implement opportunities for revenue growth, profitability and continuous improvement.
  
  

About You

• 5+ years leadership experience across accounting / finance or graduate of finance leadership rotational program with strong technical & leadership skills able to operate in a fast paced and challenging environment
• Prior experience providing coaching and development opportunities for junior staff
• Excellent time management, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Self-starter, organized and able to prioritize effectively and work through ambiguity.
• High attention to detail with 'big picture' awareness.
• Compelling influencing skills.
• Positive outlook and generates enthusiasm and energy with a determined, can-do approach.
• Committed to continuous improvement.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office packages, Adobe WorkFront and Oracle NetSuite (desirable)
  
  

What We Can Offer

Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.

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