Senior Financial Planning & Reporting Manager

At AliveDx, we empower diagnostic insights, transform patient care, and innovate for life. With over 30-years in in-vitro diagnostics, we put the health of patients first by creating innovative solutions designed for faster diagnostic results. Alba–– our blood bank reagents portfolio–– and MosaiQ®–– one of the first multiplexing and multimodality automated testing platforms––are designed to make labs more efficient and clinical decision-making more effective. Our journey started as Alba Bioscience, and later, Quotient. Today, as AliveDx, we innovate for life.

Senior Financial Planning and Reporting Manager

AliveDx is recruiting for a Financial Planning and Report Manager to join the Finance team based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The role is a full-time position working.  Currently a temporary position for 9 months, with the potential to be made permanent.

RESPONSIBILITIES

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Senior Financial Planning & Reporting Manager to lead financial planning, forecasting, and analytical initiatives across Alba business unit. This role plays a critical part in driving business performance, ensuring financial transparency, and influencing key decision-making processes. The enior Financial Planning & Reporting Manager will work closely with cross-functional teams, senior leadership, and other stakeholders to provide insights that enhance growth and profitability. An individual contributor who thrives in a matrix organization, effectively collaborating across teams and functions to achieve shared goals.

Financial Planning and Forecasting:
•    Lead the annual budgeting process for Alba, including setting financial targets and coordinating across departments to ensure alignment with company goals. 
•    Oversee quarterly forecasting cycles, ensuring accuracy and alignment with strategic goals.
•    Build and refine financial models to assess performance, scenario planning, and long-term projections.
•    Provide regular updates on performance against budget and forecast, identifying key variances and opportunities for improvement.

Analysis and Reporting:
•    Overall responsibility for monthly management reporting pack for the business unit, ensuring timely and accurate delivery. 
•    Analyse financial results, identify key trends, and provide actionable insights to stakeholders.
•    Develop and present monthly and quarterly financial reports, including variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior periods.

Strategic Business Partnering:
•    Partner with operational leaders to provide tailored financial insights that drive departmental and company-wide performance, to ensure transparency and alignment to business strategies and goals.
•    Act as a key financial advisor to senior management, offering data driven recommendations to optimize resource allocation and provide guidance on cost control, then lobbying management to implement these changes. 
•    Collaborate with senior executives on key strategic initiatives that inform long-term strategic planning. Develop financial models that support key business decisions, such as market expansion and product launches.

People Leadership:
•    Mentor, drive and develop the finance organisation, to achieve high FP&A performance delivery, promoting a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
•    Establish clear goals and priorities for the finance team, in collaboration with the Head of Accounting and Controlling Finance, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.

Process Improvement and Tools:
•    Drive improvements in financial processes, systems, and reporting capabilities to enhance efficiency and accuracy. Align financial planning processes with the corporate FPA goals and objectives.
•    Implement best practices for financial reporting and dashboards to provide real-time insights.
•    Leverage technology to improve automation and streamline workflows.
 

YOUR COMPETENCIES

• CPA, CA, CIMA, ACCA, or equivalent qualification preferred.
• Relavent experience in Senior FP&A, corporate finance, or a related function, with several years in a progressive leadership role.
• Advanced proficiency in financial modelling and analytics using Excel.
• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to distil complex financial concepts for non-financial stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a keen analytical mindset.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate with senior leadership.
• Ability to work under pressure, meet timelines and provide a high quality of work.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• A highly dynamic and growing environment.
• An opportunity to live your passion for intrapreneurial mindset, where cultivating innovation and customer centricity are at the heart of everything we do.
• A flexible working environment where applicable and a range of core and flexible benefits ranging from private medical cover, life assurance, additional annual leave, cycle to work, technology, experience days and access to marketplace discounts

Interested? We look forward to receiving your application.

AliveDx is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals regardless of nationality, sex, disability, region/belief, sexual orientation or age. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on competences, performance and business needs.