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Project Finance Analyst

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We’re on a mission to change the future of clinical research
At Perceptive, we help the biopharmaceutical industry bring medical treatments to the market, faster.
Our mission is to change the world but to do this, we need people like you.
What can we offer you?
Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:
YOURSELF
- 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy more)
HEALTH
- Health Cash Plan
- Optional private health, dental insurance, and health screens
- Cycle to work scheme
WEALTH
- Generous pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution
- Life assurance
- Season ticket loan
About the role
Key Responsibilities
Project Review Activities & Project Manager Support Supports the preparation and execution of variance analysis and revenue review checks, validating financial data and ensuring consistency across systems and evidence sources. Participates in forecast reviews, including pressure-testing assumptions, reviewing contract leakage, and ensuring all lines are fully forecasted and explained. Supports review of incremental contractual items, governance of contractual requirements and client-specific commercial terms. Assists with billing and cash reviews, identifying discrepancies, overdue amounts, or issues requiring remedial action. Contributes to project margin reviews and assesses key drivers.
Forecasting, Reporting & KPI Management Maintains and updates BU-level revenue forecasts based on insights from PM reviews and management guidance. Supports in the development and maintenance of KPI dashboards across backlog and revenue to highlight risks, variances, or opportunities. Supports creation, maintenance and analysis of backlog reporting, including burn-rate trends and dynamics.
Commercial & Financial Governance Assists in coordinating and maintaining the project review schedule, ensuring newly signed projects are assigned and forecasted within required timeframes. Supports Pricing governance activities, ensuring financial models and templates are accurate and updated. Supports management of the ticket backlog, resolving issues and collaborating with PMs as needed. Assists in reviewing and improving the revenue processes. Supports review, reconciliation and continuous improvement of the Order to Cash (O2C) process, including alignment of systems.
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Month-End & Financial Controls Responsible for accurate and timely revenue month-end activities, ensuring compliance in usage, forecasting and time processes. Responsible for balance sheet reporting and reconciliations, ensuring issues are investigated and resolved. Contributes to 3rd-party cost forecasting.
Financial Training, Financial Performance & Compliance Contributes to development and maintenance of financial training content alongside training leads. Supports regular financial compliance checks, financial performance reviews, and internal reporting requirements. Produces routine and ad-hoc reporting to support Finance leadership and decision-making.
Continuous Improvement & Cross-Team Collaboration Identifies opportunities to streamline or improve financial processes, reporting and tools. Partners with Finance, PMs and operational teams to ensure best practice in project financial management. Supports implementation of process improvements, enhancements to reporting, and system updates.
Other Performs any other reasonable duties as required in support of the Client Finance team’s objectives.
Functional Competencies (Technical knowledge/Skills)
- Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills; ability to build effective partnerships with PMs and Finance leaders.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks with attention to detail, prioritising workload in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrates capability for critical thinking, issue resolution, and structured problem-solving.
- Strong organisation, planning and time-management skills.
- Proactive, adaptable, self-starter mindset with willingness to learn.
- Ability to identify and support process improvements.
- Competent in analysing financial data, recognising trends, and preparing logical and insightful reports.
- Confident user of MS Excel, financial systems and reporting tools (Workday and Suite Project Pro is desirable)
- Ability to operate collaboratively within a global team environment.
- Takes ownership and responsibility for deliverables.
- Comfortable working with PMs, operational teams and Finance partners.
- Familiarity with regulated environments and project-based financial processes is advantageous.


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Experience, Education, and Certifications
- Demonstrable experience in a client finance, finance, accounting or project financial support role preferred, ideally in the Clinical Research Industry.
- Understanding of project financial lifecycles, revenue recognition, forecasting processes or similar desirable.
- Experience using systems for reporting and stakeholder communication.
- Exposure to operational or commercial finance environment, beneficial.
- An understanding of data modelling, process mapping or financial modelling, beneficial.
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Math, Marketing, Engineering, Sciences or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience
- English: Fluent
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