Job OverviewThis role partners with operational and commercial leaders across the Global CRL Lab Sciences business to drive financial performance, operational productivity, and data-driven decision-making. As a Finance Business Partner, you deliver actionable insights through forecasting, headcount and productivity analysis, commercial performance evaluation, KPI management, and operating income monitoring.
Serving as a trusted advisor to business leaders, you connect financial results with operational and commercial drivers, including scientific demand, volume throughput, backlog, capacity, and market trends. You support resource planning, operational efficiency, forecast accuracy and performance improvement initiatives across a global laboratory services portfolio.
Success in this role requires strong analytical and financial planning capabilities, with the ability to translate complex data into clear insights, communicate key business drivers, and influence decision-making across operations, commercial teams, and finance. Through a combination of financial expertise and business acumen, you identify risks, opportunities, and actions that enhance growth, profitability, and operational effectiveness.
The role also supports the annual planning process, monthly business reviews, and strategic initiatives, ensuring leaders have timely and accurate information to make informed decisions.
- This position may require occasional domestic and/or international travel (e.g. to CRL or client venues)
- This position will work remote from home office.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES•
Business Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to Operational and Commercial leaders, providing financial guidance, challenging assumptions, and influencing key business decisions.•
Forecasting: Lead weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting processes, improving forecast accuracy and business visibility.•
Backlog Management: Monitor backlog performance, client demand trends, and forecast slippage to improve predictability and planning.•
Business Analytics: Develop KPIs, dashboards, and management reporting that drive data-based decision-making and performance improvement.•
Margin Optimization: Analyze pricing, margins, and study profitability to identify opportunities for revenue growth and margin expansion.•
Business Insights: Translate complex operational and financial data into clear, actionable recommendations for leadership.•
Performance Management: Drive accountability through performance reviews, action tracking, and follow-up with business leaders.•
Resource Planning: Support capacity, workload, productivity, and headcount planning through data-driven analysis.•
Strategic Investments: Develop financial models and business cases to support investment decisions, strategic initiatives, and ROI tracking.•
Operating Income Performance: Partner with operational and cost center leaders to improve efficiency, productivity, and operating income performance.•
Commercial Partnership: Partner with Commercial leadership to evaluate pipeline, bookings, client trends, and market opportunities that support growth objectives.•
Commercial Effectiveness: Analyze commercial productivity, resource utilization, and organizational performance to improve effectiveness.•
Technology & Analytics Enablement: Lead reporting, analytics, and technology initiatives that enhance business insight and decision support.•
Strategic Planning: Lead annual planning, long-range forecasting, and strategic planning activities in support of business objectives.•
Financial Reporting: Support month-end close activities, including revenue analysis, accrual reviews, variance analysis, and management reporting.
QUALIFICATIONS - Education: Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in business or related discipline preferred.
- Experience: 10+ years in FP&A, Commercial Finance, or Finance Business Partnering within a complex global organization.
- Qualified Accountant beneficial - CPA or equivalent
- Strong FP&A/commercial finance exposure and P&L ownership.
- Proven experience partnering with senior operational and commercial leaders to drive business performance and strategic decision-making.
- Skills: Demonstrated proficiency managing analytically rigorous initiatives. Advanced Excel and PowerPoint presentation abilities required.
- Tangible understanding and experience of ERP, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence systems incl. financial reporting, PowerBI and CRM systems.
- Accustomed to communicating and reporting to senior management.
- Supervisory and/or people management experience advantageous.
Compensation DataThe annual pay range for this position in the USA is $120K - $135K USD. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, location and any collective agreements, if applicable. Remote candidates located outside of the USA should be aware that the relevant pay range varies based on country and location.
We're committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility.
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