SAR Cost Controller

Job Title: SAR Cost Controller

Location: Manchester

Contract: 9 Months / hybrid 2 days onsite

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Rates: £33.50 p/h

Job Description

SRG are looking for a SAR cost controller for a leading pharmaceutical company based in Manchester. The successful candidate for this role will sit in the Financial support & Process management for SAR related functions.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Financial support

Be the Finance Business Partner and provide financial advice to Department Lead

• Understanding the cost drivers of Cost Centres / Department and provide insight to the non-finance members
• Be responsible for financial advice and support to decision making advise on costs, consulting spending, FTEs, planning and reporting
• Understand financial opportunities and risk
• Participate in review during Outlook and Target planning cycles
• Propose process improvements & lead improvement initiatives implementation

• Process Management
• Ensure timeliness and correctness of month end close activities for the Functions (accruals, reclassifications, allocation, FTE assignments, …)
• Review and comments deltas and overall results to finance and non-finance members
• Plan costs and FTEs at cost centre level during Outlook and Budget cycles
• In charge of Capex controlling activities (depending on the function needs) & be the main point of contact for senior management for supporting new business case setting up
• Analyse financial information for errors and trends
• Assist with year-end and internal audits
• Support M&A and divestment projects as needed
• Support projects by setting and controlling budgets, tracking spend, capitalization initiation and ensuring compliance

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in accounting, Finance or related field.
• 5-10 years industry experience.
• Analytical skills
• Interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships and communicate effectively to explain financial concepts to non-finance people.
• Attention to detail, organizational, planning, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills, and general computer skills particularly with accounting systems (SAP preferred) and reporting (BW).
• Experience with Business Intelligence tools (Power BI preferred).
• Good understanding of project management.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.