Sr. Financial Analyst

Sr. Financial Analyst

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.

Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know: Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone's life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Core Responsibilities

• Support Finance Manager to provide ongoing financial support/partnership to the assigned corporate functions. This includes support of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Partner with accounting, finance and procurement teams on billing initiatives.
• Distribute and assist with the interpretation of key financial reports to respective cost center owners.
• Relationship building, including influencing and rapport skills.
• Assists with ensuring accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and year end close.
• Performs appropriate analysis of expenses ensuring accurate coding, adequacy of accruals, and resolves accounting discrepancies and irregularities.
• Facilitates positive relationships with General Ledger (GL) team members including international accounting personnel as well as other departments. Participate in cross functional teams as needed.
• Works closely with managers to track budgets and support the presentation to Executive Leadership teams.
• Assists with the process of loading annual budget and quarterly forecast into Oracle.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Special projects as assigned with an emphasis on attention to detail.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in Business, Accounting, Finance or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Progressive accounting experience, preferably within the CRO or pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in working in an internationally oriented organization and knowledgeable in US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Experience working with large Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Oracle Financial experience is preferred.
• Ability to perform several tasks simultaneously, organize and prioritize those tasks to meet deadlines in a fast paced environment.
• Effective presentation, documentation, and interpersonal skills with a team-oriented approach.
• Able to work cooperatively and collaboratively with all levels of employees, management, and external agencies to maximize performance, creativity, problem solving, and results.
• Able to resolve issues diplomatically.
• Strong work ethics, professional attitude and reliable. Strong problem-solving skills, research and resolution skills and data analysis.
• Ability to act and operate independently with minimal daily direction from manager to accomplish objectives.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), email and voice mail.
• Strong in written and spoken English.