As Senior Financial Analyst, you will play a central role in the financial relationship with one of our largest strategic accounts. You'll be a trusted finance voice with our client, shaping budgets, forecasts, and commercial decisions that directly influence how the account performs.
This is a high-ownership role for someone who enjoys partnering with operations, commercial, and client finance leaders, translating complex delivery into clear financial decisions, and building the kind of trust that makes you the go-to person in every client conversation.
Key Responsibilities
- Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting — Drive development of annual and in-year client budgets in collaboration with operational leaders and client finance teams.
- Maintain rolling forecasts, including monthly reforecasts, variance analysis, and identification of financial risks and opportunities.
- Maintain full visibility of forecast vs. actuals across all spend categories and client locations.
- Ensure financial plans align with contractual scope, pricing models, and operational delivery plans.
- Purchase Order and Contract Governance — Ensure timely receipt, validation, and tracking of client purchase orders against approved budgets and contractual entitlements.
- Reconcile purchase orders to forecasts, invoices, and contracts, proactively resolving discrepancies.
- Maintain clear, auditable linkages between budgets, contracts, purchase orders, and invoices.
- Financial Close and Journaling — Perform monthly financial close activities for assigned client sites, including accurate accruals and cost allocations.
- Ensure journals are complete, accurate, and compliant with internal controls and external accounting standards.
- Partner with central finance and accounting teams to resolve close issues efficiently and within deadlines.
- Spend Management and Financial Analysis — Manage and report on financial performance across multiple spend categories, including:
- Contracted services
- Headcount and labor
- Ad hoc time and materials
- Parts and pass-through costs
- Provide clear cost drivers, trend analysis, and forward-looking insights to support financial and operational decisions.
- Client Interface and Stakeholder Management — Serve as a day-to-day finance contact for the client account, engaging directly with operations and finance stakeholders.
- Present financial performance, forecasts, risks, and opportunities in client reviews, governance forums, and ad hoc discussions.
- Build trusted client relationships that balance commercial rigor with a partnership mindset.
- Commercial Support and Margin Management — Support pricing, costing, and margin analysis for new business, scope changes, and contract amendments.
- Assess the financial impact of operational changes, service model adjustments, and productivity initiatives.
- Ensure commercial decisions are supported by robust financial analysis and appropriate governance approvals.
- Operational Decision Support — Provide financial insight to operations teams to support workforce planning, service delivery trade-offs, and productivity analysis.
- Translate operational metrics into clear financial implications to enable evidence-based decision-making.
- Sourcing and Procurement Support — Partner with sourcing and procurement teams to deliver spend analysis, vendor comparisons, and cost models.
- Support identification, validation, and tracking of savings against baseline budgets and forecasts.
- Billing and Revenue Assurance — Perform weekly and monthly billing reviews to ensure invoices are accurate, timely, and contractually compliant.
- Ensure billing aligns with agreed pricing models, contracts, and purchase orders.
- Resolve billing discrepancies and disputes efficiently while maintaining strong client confidence.
- Governance, Controls, and Process Excellence — Define, document, and implement financial processes and SOPs where gaps exist.
- Ensure adherence to internal forecasting, approval, and financial governance frameworks.
- Maintain audit readiness in a regulated services environment.
- Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing — Share knowledge and provide guidance to junior analysts and colleagues supporting the account.
- Contribute to team capability in forecasting, analysis, and stakeholder engagement through peer review and mentoring.
What You Bring
- Solid finance experience in a client-facing or account-based role, ideally including budgets, forecasts, billing, and commercial support for sizeable accounts or portfolios.
- Background in services, managed services, or professional services with complex delivery and billing models.
- Comfort working across multiple stakeholders — operations, commercial, sourcing, and client finance — and translating between them.
- Strong judgment, a partnership mindset, and the ability to hold your own in senior client conversations.
Nice to Have
- Experience supporting pharmaceutical, biotech, or other regulated industries.
- Exposure to multi-site and multi-country service delivery models.
- Experience with long-term outsourcing or managed services contracts.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience.
- Professional accounting qualification (CPA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) preferred.
Core Competencies
- Financial governance and control in complex services environments
- Executive-level client communication and stakeholder management
- Forecasting, variance analysis, and financial risk management
- Commercial acumen and margin optimization
- Process definition, SOP development, and governance discipline
- Collaboration, mentoring, and knowledge sharing within a finance team
- High attention to detail combined with strategic perspective
The annual compensation range for this full-time position is $80,000 to $100,000. The final base pay offered to the successful candidate will be determined by factors including internal equity, work location, as well as individual qualifications, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; solid finance experience in client-facing or account-based roles; CPA, ACCA, or CIMA preferred; strong stakeholder management and financial governance skills.
Key Responsibilities
- financial planning
- budgeting and forecasting
- managing purchase orders
Job Details
- Category: Finance and Accounting
- Seniority: Mid Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — Richmond or United States
- Salary: USD 80,000 – 100,000 / year
- Languages: English
About PerkinElmer
A global company providing analytical instruments, diagnostics, and research solutions. — Industry: Research and Development