Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

Everest Clinical Research (“Everest”) is a full-service contract research organization (CRO) providing a broad range of expertise-based clinical research services to worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. We serve some of the best-known companies and work with many of the most advanced drugs, biologics, and medical devices in development today. Everest has been an independent CRO since 2004 with a strong foundation as a statistical and data management center of excellence. Building on this foundation, Everest has successfully developed and established itself as a full-service CRO. Everest’s headquarters are located in Markham (Greater Toronto Area), Ontario, Canada with additional sites in Bridgewater (Greater New York City Area), New Jersey, USA, Shanghai (Pudong Zhangjiang New District), China and Taipei, Taiwan. Everest is known in the industry for its high quality deliverables, superior customer service, and flexibility in meeting clients’ needs. A dynamic organization with an entrepreneurial origin, Everest continues to experience exceptional growth and great success. Quality is our backbone, customer-focus is our tradition, flexibility is our strength…that’s us…that’s Everest. To drive continued success, we are seeking a committed, creative and experienced individual to join our winning team as Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis. This position can be based in our Markham, Ontario on-site location, or remotely from a home-based office anywhere in Canada in accordance with our Work from Home policy. Position Summary The Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis works closely with the company’s project managers and the business development team to develop forecasts and financial plans, analyze operational results to better understand company performance and provide insights around project and functional area performance at a corporate level.  Responsibilities: Work with the project management team to maintain rolling 12-month revenue forecasts for resource planning and to serve as input into the corporate budgeting and forecasting processes. Deliver monthly functional area summary reports including forecast revenue, capacity and utilization metrics. Perform actual to budget, actual to forecast, variance analysis and summarize results for project management leadership to action. Work with the business development team, to develop and implement monthly reporting to track pipeline metrics, win/loss analysis and high probability pipeline and revenue forecasts to provide insights into sales performance and early visibility into revenue trends and resource requirements by service area. Ad hoc business reporting as requested Collaborate with others in Finance to support overall department goals and objectives. Participate in projects to develop new procedures and systems to enhance workflows and drive efficiencies and standardization. Requirements: B.A. or B. Comm. Professional designation of Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) Six+ years' related experience. Knowledgeable about financial software, corporate finance, tracking budget expenses, financial skills, analyzing information, developing budgets, and performance management. Good organizational skills with the ability to adapt and adjust to changing priorities and to manage multiple assignments with challenging/conflicting deadlines. Detail-oriented, customer and quality focused. Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills. Must be able to clearly explain financial details and concepts in lay terms. Flexible, organized, and able to multi-task with a strong ability to problem solve. Advanced computer skills in Microsoft Excel along with strong Word and PowerPoint ability. Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality. #LI-Remote #LI-TK1