Finance Business Partner

England - Cambridge

Finance Business Partner, based Cambridge, 

Why Us

With phenomenal growth throughout our business in Europe, our finance team serve as the lynchpin in everything we do. In todays fast moving, demanding environment we need to partner closely with our Commercial business to ensure accurate forecasting, and financial insight to our leaders, to support complex decisions around expansion and working in multiple countries.

Why You

Keen to have a strong partnering relationship with a key function of the companies business, you will bring your in depth experience of financial modelling, budgeting and forecast process to work across EMEA and Emerging Markets. Youll have a great awareness of the commercial sector so understand how to build relationships with people based remotely, and enjoy working in a very busy organization that can be demanding during quarter end, but youll know that the work you do is helping Illumina address healthcare advances across the region.

Basic Function and Scope of the Position:

Responsible for business partnering with Sales functions and the sub-regional leaders. Supports the company's forecast process and provides analytical input for the company's monthly operations analysis and forecast summary.  Provides analytical support on actual results variances to the finance team to help assure the accuracy of the financial forecasting.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

Provide high quality financial insight and guidance to stakeholders based on commercial understanding of the business, market context and underlying business strategy to support decision making processes.

Business Partner with the Sales organization by developing and maintaining trusted relationships with a diverse customer base, across multiple countries and functions, and from varied levels of seniority

Supporting the Commercial Finance Head and CFO in working with sub-regional stakeholders and other relevant stakeholders with preparation, submission and commentary on Business Cases and Deals by developing robust financial models

Work closely with the Sub-Regional Teams to identify strategic opportunities and follow through to execution

Manage weekly and monthly performance reporting as well as monitor performance against targets

Produce ad-hoc analysis as required and produce specific reporting against strategic initiatives where required.

All listed tasks and responsibilities are deemed as essential functions to this position; however, business conditions may require reasonable accommodations for additional task and responsibilities.

Preferred Educational Background:

College/University Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related field.  MS or MBA and/or CPA or equivalent preferred.

Preferred Experiential Background:

Significant related experience, preferably in a high growth environment, or large organization (pharma, life science is a plus)

Advance skills and experience with TM1, Cognos and IBM Planning analytics, is required or similar

Strong understanding of corporate financing principles; budgeting processes, forecasting, financial modeling, etc.

Good understanding of GAAP and SEC rules and their application

Proven ability to evaluate and solve complex problems and the strategic implications of different business approaches.

Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills required.

Knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Outlook required.

Must be very detail oriented.