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Finance professional with 20+ years experience in life sciences.Senior Director of Finance at LifeArc, a multi-site life sciences organisation with a significant balance sheet (>£1bn). Part of the organisation's senior leadership team with responsibility for full suite of finance activities across decision support, business partnering, performance measurement, long term planning, budgeting, forecasting, governance, risk management, assurance, investment valuation, financial accounting and audit. Additional responsibility for procurement, facilities and operational excellence.Prior role as Finance Director at PAREXEL with portfolio oversight for $1.3bn revenue across multiple service lines incorporating clinical research, consulting, medical communications and market access. Responsibilities included team leadership, business partnering, decision support, internal control and audit.CIMA qualified with a strong background in corporate accounting and commercial leadership allied to a deep understanding of drug development. Most effective working at the intersection of finance and operations to help leadership understand the economics of their decisions while improving finance and back office processes to reduce costs and more effectively support the business.I hold a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and have successfully led a number of major process changes including a redesign of Biogen's forecasting budgeting process for clinical trial spend (variance to budget improved from 17% to 2%) and led the design and development of PAREXEL's internally built revenue recognition and forecasting tool. I have also led a number of reporting initiatives developing PAREXEL's project profitability reporting, monthly project financial review, backlog forecast consolidation and point of sale operating income analysis.

Listed skills include Hyperion Enterprise, Essbase, Variance Analysis, Financial Reporting, and 25 others.