# Director Finance

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Location**: Gurugram, IND
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Syneos Health is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

**Job Responsibilities**

This position is the financial lead for an assigned geographic region or business unit(s) and serves as the primary finance contact for the CFO. Provides day-to-day leadership to the Business Unit Controllers that support the CFO’s direct reports, ensuring consistency and providing a consolidated view of assigned area.

**Core Responsibilities**

- Oversees management and direction of assigned finance personnel. Approves course of action on all management/human resource matters, including employment hires, transfers, terminations, promotions, performance appraisals, professional development, job descriptions, employee evaluation, training, counseling, and discipline of direct staff members.

- Supports, reports, and forecasts on revenue, contracts, projects, and resource requirements for assigned business unit(s). Ensures all financial requirements are being properly controlled within the business unit and in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

- Fully supports business unit(s) on a proactive basis. Understands their financial and reporting needs and is viewed as a valued business partner by recommending action plans and providing high quality, professional and creative financial analysis that supports their ability to reach their corporate profitability, financial, and operational goals.

- Provides financial leadership, system support, and functional guidance to the Business Unit Controllers to ensure compliance with policies and GAAP.

- Ensures project revenues are being recorded in accordance with GAAP and company policies.

- Oversees review of project profitability and balance sheet health, to include unbilled and billed Accounts Receivable balances.

- Reviews and validates Business Unit Profit & Loss Statements. Investigates and resolves anomalies and unusual trends.

- Reviews all significant proposals to ensure they meet corporate profitability and cash targets.

- Supports Company’s accounting closing schedule and all corporate financial reporting requirements, including backlog, forecasting to meet or exceed respective deliverable deadlines.

- Accurately forecasts future financial periods.

- Ensures unit’s reporting and process structures are and remain compliant with all statutory internal and external requirements.

- Supports and responding to requests received from Operational Management and Teams, Proposals, Contracts, Business Development, Accounts Receivable Finance, and other operational groups.

- Performs other work-related duties as assigned.

**Qualifications**

- BA/BS degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or related field required; advanced degree preferred.

- Requires a minimum of 10 years of extensive, progressive financial experience preferably within a Contract Research Organization or pharmaceutical environment.

- Demonstrated leadership skills.

- Effective presentation, documentation, and interpersonal skills with a team-oriented approach.

- Ability to organize and prioritize work to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment is essential.

- Proficiency with accounting software packages is required; Oracle Finance experience strongly preferred.

- Demonstrated ability to work with confidential and sensitive data.

- Strong computer skills utilizing Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

- English proficiency required.

## Skills

### Required
- Accounting
- Finance
- Leadership
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Oracle Finance

### Nice to have
- Advanced degree
- Oracle Finance experience

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