3335 - Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Overview

This role will work as Finance Business Partner to the Delivery function within the Digital Products & Solutions (DP&S) organization. As a key member of the DP&S-Delivery Leadership team, working closely with the SVP, Delivery, this role will support delivery leaders across product suites achieve key financial measures, alongside operational measures, covering the entire portfolio of DP&S products. This will involve oversight of product and project financials, measuring performance against expected margins, reporting periodically on product gross margins and other financial metrics. The role will require close engagement and partnering to ensure delivery capacity is aligned with demand and manage capacity by evaluating and adjudicating resourcing requests. This role will also drive financial governance over multiple ongoing and new investments aimed at improving productivity, and critical initiatives to optimize cost of delivery, thereby driving margin expansion within each product offering.  

The role will also support respective suite leaders in achieving functional financial targets, including proposing, driving & tracking efficiency actions to deliver annual plan and revised forecasts through the year. As the functional finance leader, this role will manage a large multi-geography team and is responsible for timely & accurate closure of books, budgets and monthly forecast submissions, financial and management reporting, compliance with accounting policies and business & function reviews with the DP&S Leadership team.

The role will also steer engagement with both business and finance colleagues across global and regional business units to manage allocation of delivery costs in alignment with DP&S financial policies and align ongoing demand.

Essential Functions

• Manage staff in accordance with organization’s policies and applicable legislation. Responsibilities include planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance and guiding professional development; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing employee relations issues and resolving problems. Approve actions on human resources matters, including salary administration.
• Effectively manage team resources and delegate tasks commensurate with skill level. Evaluate workload and quality through regular review.
• Understand business partner/client markets and translate strategy into proactive plans to enable successful achievement of business results.
• Contribute to discussions on implementation of Finance strategy on a regional/ country/division/unit basis and implement objectives as appropriate. Ensure staff have a consistent understanding and positive impression of business strategy for their respective business unit.
• Participate in the implementation of strategic initiatives and plans for DP&S Delivery
• May provide input to pricing strategies, policies and analysis based on collective experience across ongoing projects.
• Preparation and financial ownership of business cases, new, ongoing strategic investments to drive efficiencies (effort and cost) in delivery.
• Identify and drive margin expansion initiatives (eg. systematic review of resource utilization, new opportunities to optimize capacity, revenue opportunities for delivery effort beyond contracted scope)
• Develop specific business metrics that support timely and actionable information flow for daily operational and long-term strategic planning purposes.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting. Analyze and review financial statements and supporting schedules.
• Prepare and present formal forecasts and budgets based on guidelines from Corporate Finance and DP&S Business Unit Finance Leader.
• Monitor performance against forecast and budget goals; carry out related analyses; explain significant variances; determine financial strategies to meet financial goals and direct internal management reporting.
• Identify and monitor areas of risk and/or opportunity and their financial impact on the business/function.
• Coordinate preparation for financial, tax, and related audits (internal, external and financial authority).
• Help ensure, where applicable, 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/functional requirements
• Direct financial reporting and other policy development/integration of new corporate initiatives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Req
• CPA - Certified Public Accountant CPA qualified (or equivalent) Req
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