Senior Financial Analyst/Finance Manager

Together with the Business Control and commercial teams, the Senior Financial Analyst/Finance Manager oversees the business and financial operations of the Company’s global sales and marketing activities. As such, he/she actively supports the business and financial performance of Biocartis.

The Senior Financial Analyst/Finance Manager is responsible for conducting the appropriate data collection, analysis, monitoring, data interpretation and reporting thereof to support regular/ad-hoc business review discussions and strategic decision-making.

He/she functions as an internal sparring partner towards the relevant operational units and is the go to person for questions and advice on key performance indicators (KPIs).

Accountabilities

• Primary focus is business control of the sales & marketing related activities and supporting S&M with business analysis..
• Supports the S&M and finance teams in ad hoc projects (mainly valuation, specific investment analysis projects, business case analysis).
• Supports the finance and the S&M teams in preparations of budgets, and the challenging thereof.
• Supports S&M in analyzing volume and pricing trends, customer segments, product performance, regional performance and business KPIs
• Is responsible for the preparation, in collaboration with the Controlling Manager, of (monthly) management accounts & reporting for sales & marketing related activities.
• Executes required KPI monitoring (including market/benchmark analysis) for sales & marketing in collaboration with the sales & marketing team.
• Works closely together with the sales & marketing team to improve data collection, interpretation and analysis thereof.
• Prepares and challenges financial and operational long-term sales projections and monthly forecasts.
• Drives performance improvement projects, and is proactively suggesting new projects to be worked on.
• Liaises closely with the organization to obtain required data points and other inputs needed for analysis/reporting and/or the further extension thereof.
• Defines and implements procedures to support and improve internal processes related to sales & marketing business control.
• Protects operations by keeping financial information and plans confidential.

Profile requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree (preferably in business/economics/accountancy) or equivalent through experience and/or training;
• You have more than 5 years of professional experience, preferably in an international sales environment;
• Min. 3 years of experience in business controlling is required;
• Practical experience in sales & marketing driven environment (preferred);
• Practical experience in data collection from ERP systems to prepare reporting statements (e.g. via sales cubes);
• Investment analysis and valuation methodologies (e.g. NPV, DCF);
• Benchmarking methodologies;
• Basic understanding of income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements;
• Basic knowledge on internal control processes (preferred);
• Understanding of medical diagnostics industry is an asset;
• MS Office: Outlook, Excel (advanced), Word, PowerPoint;
• Excellent IT skills (including advanced excel);
• Basic knowledge on ERP systems (experience with Microsoft Dynamics is a plus) and familiar with BI reporting tools (preferred);
• Fluent in English (reading, writing, speech), Dutch is an asset.

Our offering

We offer you a truly exciting job in a fast growing international and innovative environment where you can work with top entrepreneurs in the biotech industry. You can be part of a very dynamic, young and growing team. You will have freedom to shape your work and shape your job where you deem it necessary: we value your input.

We offer a very market-competitive compensation package which includes a Flexible Income Plan.