Length of contract: 15 months (maternity cover)
Anticipated start date: March 2025
Location: Hybrid, 3 days on site in Paddington.

POSITION SUMMARY:
The Vertex International Financial Team is integral to delivering Vertex’s mission of creating transformative medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. The position is located with the Central, Eastern Europe and Middle East Region (CEEM) and will report into the Regional Finance Associate Director. 
The individual will focus on the development of Vertex's regional Finance operations including 
forecasting, performance management, accounting, and internal controls. 
Successful execution of the role will further enable the Company to progress with its mission in the CEEM region.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide financial business partnership to Vertex's Central, Eastern Europe and Middle East Region (CEEM) operations and drive partnership with local business leads through strong strategic and operational finance and accounting support.
• Consolidation and data management for monthly reporting cycle
• Support local team, as well as distributor partners, in analysing and driving market KPIs.
• Drive the region’s monthly financial revenue forecast, operating expenses and financial reporting process.
• Perform sales and external data analytics to develop key insights on performance and future trends.
• Provide demand forecast for countries in scope and partner with Supply Chain to optimize stock levels and improve forecast accuracy.
• Actively integrate the corporate planning activities with various business leaders.
• Develop business cases for strategic decisions
• Cross Functional collaboration among shared service transactional groups and local stakeholders.
• Actively participates in process improvement projects and ad hoc analyses as requested.
• Ensure rigorous and transparent application of group policies and procedures throughout the region.

• Bachelor's degree in a business or scientific discipline.
• Experienced in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology industries performing financial planning, sales forecasting, and business analytics within a global organization
• Experience in business partnering, finance, accounting, internal controls, procurement, supply chain and data analytics.
• Solid understanding of financial valuation techniques as well as experience evaluating alternative investment opportunities and business strategies, simulation and scenario analyses.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, identify key issues and value drivers, and translate strategic insights into an appropriate analytic framework.
• A track record of proactively identifying problems and gaining consensus on potential solutions.
• Ability to work under pressure whilst still maintaining attention to detail and effective controls.
• Established record in managing multiple and competing priorities.
• Good facilitation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency of MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and financial planning and reporting systems (Hyperion, Power BI).
• Experience working in a multinational pharmaceutical or FMCG matrix organization desirable.
• Hands-on mentality.
• Fluency in German (a bonus but not essential)