Associate Director
Posted on: 20 May 2021
Plymouth, PA
Job Description
Job Overview
Directs financial planning and accounting practices including: budgeting, costing, financial analysis, and long range forecasting for a mid-sized market or regional function(s). Partners with the business, providing subject matter expertise and direction for the business/function on financial and accounting issues.
Essential Functions
• Understands business partner/client markets and translates strategy into proactive plans to enable successful achievement of business results.
• Ensures that the recording, measurement and reporting of all financial transactions adhere to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), internal IQVIA corporate policies and procedures, government regulations and local business requirements.
• Develops specific business metrics that support timely and actionable information flow for daily operational and long-term strategic planning purposes.
• Directs all aspects of planning and estimation processes related to annual budgeting and strategic plans as well as monthly forecasts.
• May develop pricing strategies, policies and analysis.
• Provides monthly financial reporting to constituencies.
• Serves as key focal point between the head of the business/function supported and the regional CFO or next line management to ensure the business/function is synchronized with the regional plan.
• Ensures achievement of business financial targets by monitoring spending, providing insight, and early warning.
• Identifies and monitors areas of risk and/or opportunity and their financial impact on the business.
• Reviews and analyzes new business initiatives and investments to ensure that they conform with local and IQVIA strategic vision and achieve or exceed minimum return on investment requirements.
• May act as an office manager.
• Manages HR, legal, IT, tax and treasury specific financial analysis.
Qualifications
• Other Graduate degree or equivalent preferred - in Finance, Accounting or Financial Management Req
• Seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in business analysis, accounting and finance. Req
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP.
• Knowledge of financial systems.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills as well as strong leadership and focus.
• Proven record of results working with senior management.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to translate business issues into financial requirements.
• Technical proficiency with financial application software is essential.
• High level of integrity and self-confidence.
• CPA - Certified Public Accountant CPA or other professional financial certification Req
IQVIA Holdings, Inc.
Durham, NC
IQVIA is a leading global provider of information, innovative technology solutions and contract research services focused on using data and science to help healthcare clients find better solutions for their patients. Formed through the merger of IMS Health and Quintiles, IQVIA offers a broad range of solutions that harness advances in healthcare information, technology, analytics and human ingenuity to drive healthcare forward. IQVIA enables companies to rethink approaches to clinical development and commercialization, innovate with confidence as well as accelerate meaningful healthcare outcomes. IQVIA has approximately 61,000 employees in more than 100 countries, all committed to making the potential of human data science a reality. IQVIA’s approach to human data science is powered by the IQVIA CORE™, driving unique actionable insights at the intersection of big data, transformative technology and analytics with extensive domain expertise.
IQVIA is a global leader in protecting individual patient privacy. The company uses a wide variety of privacy-enhancing technologies and safeguards to protect individual privacy while generating and analyzing the information that helps their customers drive human health outcomes forward. IQVIA’s insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device, and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders tap into a deeper understanding of diseases, human behaviors and scientific advances, in an effort to advance their path toward cures.
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IndustryConsulting
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No. of EmployeesApproximately 61,000
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Jobs Posted1682
