Company Description
For over 20 years, Abcam has been providing tools the scientific community needs to enable faster breakthroughs in critical areas like cancer, neurological disorders, infectious diseases, and metabolic disorders.
We believe that to continue making progress, we need to work together in new ways. We need your own unique perspective as well as this of our people to make an always greater impact on the world. This community needs people like you: dedicated, agile and above all audacious so we can truly bring progress forward.
Job Description
Are you an accomplished commercial finance professional? Do you have experience influencing senior stakeholders? Do you want to be part of helping the global life science community to achieve life changing discoveries? If the answer is yes, read on!
A leading commercial finance role within Abcam, partnering Digital and HR – functions that cover the activities of Abcam Group.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Lead a team of two (Finance Business Partner & Analyst), ensuring regular reviews to give direction and support, as well as working on development plans
- Be the finance specialist partnering alongside Digital and HR teams. Sit within Business leadership teams for both functions
- Work cross functionally to bring insight along with other Commercial Finance leads and ensure accountability and actions are committed to within the Business teams
- For any in function investments, ensure thorough business cases (including benefits and returns) are produced and follow investment appraisal processes
- For Digitally led programmes ensure the benefits are tracked against business case and commitments made for target setting
- Own and lead annual budgeting and regular risks and opportunities identified for Digital and HR and communicate to central team
- Within HR, look at Business wide impacts such as Talent and provide financial expertise
- Own monthly performance process for Digital and HR to ensure delivery of targets, where any deviations to and owned and managed
- For areas requiring technical accounting judgements, collaborate with technical teams, ensuring any papers are succinctly written to cover accounting judgements, sufficient for auditing
Qualifications
You will be educated to degree level (or equivalent) with a professional qualification and have previous experience working in a Commercial Finance environment. You will need the ability to work alongside, build trusted relationships with and influence/challenge senior members of staff, with particular reference to Exec and VP level. You should also possess strong commercial acumen and the ability to move between the detail and the bigger picture to drive strong decision-making. Suitable candidates will also have experience leading teams.
Additional Information
We know that when it comes to benefits, no one size fits all. Flexibility and choice matter which is why, in addition to market competitive salaries, we offer you a flexible benefits package which is tailored to your unique needs and support your financial, physical and emotional wellbeing. This includes our award-winning share scheme, 18 weeks fully paid maternity leave, 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave as well as highly flexible working and much more. Besides, your development will be integral to your experience here. You will grow alongside other talented minds, in ways you may often find unexpected.
When people come together, incredible things happen. Here you’ll work in a safe environment where you can be who you truly are. We’ll champion and celebrate your uniqueness throughout your journey with us. This is how we excel at partnering with the scientific community no matter the challenge, ultimately helping solve the world’s most critical diseases. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Abcam.