Are you ready to be part of the future of healthcare? Can you think big, be bold, and harness the power of digital and AI to tackle longstanding life sciences challenges? Then Evinova, a new health tech business part of the AstraZeneca Group might be for you!

Transform billions of patients’ lives through technology, data, and innovative ways of working. You’re disruptive, decisive, and transformative. Someone excited to use technology to improve patients’ health. We’re building a new Health-tech business – Evinova, a fully-owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca Group.

Evinova delivers market-leading digital health solutions that are science-based, evidence-led, and human experience-driven. Thoughtful risks and quick decisions come together to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector. Be part of a diverse team that pushes the boundaries of science by digitally empowering a deeper understanding of the patients we’re helping. Launch pioneering digital solutions that improve the patients’ experience and deliver better health outcomes. Together, we have the opportunity to combine deep scientific expertise with digital and artificial intelligence to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards across the sector.

What will be your key responsibilities?

The Group Financial Controller provides specialist finance and controls expertise to the local organisation and coordinates the work of other Evinova entities, ensuring the maintenance of a robust financial control environment, accurate monthly financial reporting, that statutory reporting requirements and local tax requirements are fully in line with local legal requirements (local GAAP and tax legislation) and AZ accounting principles and standards. The Group Financial Controller supervises and coordinates the activities of internal and 3rd party transactional finance providers and ensures that activities are fully compliant with local requirements, including liaising with external auditors and tax authorities. Responsibilities also cover the roll out of global projects at a local level and ensuring that systems and processes are fully functional. The Group Financial Controller is responsible for the local risk management and an accurate and up-to-date FCF framework at market level, ensuring that adequate controls are in place and operational to mitigate the risks in the market. Driving operational cash management through leading working capital management and a proactive supervision of DSO and DPO.

Typical accountabilities:

• Tax:

• Responsible for managing relationship with third party provider, providing all necessary local input for Direct Tax, Indirect Tax and quarterly tax reporting process.

• Ensure that local tax activities are fully in line with local legislation and Global tax policies. Proactively raise queries with Global Tax, informing on a regular basis on material financial risks, in particular in relation to tax audits.

• Statutory and Management Reporting:

• Responsible for compliance with AZ Accounting Polices and standards, month-end process and applicable sub-processes (accounts payable, T&E, SOTC, fixed assets, R2R etc.), and other requirements for timely and accurate of submission of Management Accounts data in the different group systems.

• Accountable and responsible for monthly and annual closing processes for statutory and management reporting, supervising and supporting colleagues in GFS.

• Continuously develop the relationship and knowledge of 3rd party service providers (enhance the communication and in case of necessity provide relevant support/training)

• Completion and filing of all local statutory accounts in accordance with local legal requirements

• Internal control environment:

• Accountable for the market’s risk management and Financial Control Framework ensuring risks are appropriately identified and adequate controls are in place and operational in the local market

• Responsible for review of bi-annual FCF submission to Regional Financial Controller

• Responsible for review of quarterly risk submission to Regional financial Controller

• Responsible for updating local policies and procedures on a regular basis, in particular local market specific SOPs

• Observing the AstraZeneca Code of Conduct & Core values, and all other local and global policies and procedures stated by AstraZeneca to enhance AZ Corporate Reputation

• Ensure a professional management of internal and external audits with a successful completion of the audits

• Cash and Treasury:

• Identifies and drives cash opportunities through local insights and working with other functions such as GFS, Tax, Regional Controllership, Procurement

• Supporting GFS in ensuring timely payments to the suppliers and managing relationship with local banks. Provides professional stewardship of the company’s cash, in conformance with policies and procedures

• Ensures that the local company is properly funded. Monitoring that the local company is fully compliant with all internal and external policies and legislations (cash payments, T&E regulations, corporate cards etc)

• IT:

• Acting as a functional analyst of those systems impacting the activities under his/her scope, guaranteeing the systems and processes cover the local statutory accounting and tax legislative requirements.

• Local and global projects:

• Support local roll out of Global/Regional Finance projects in line with business needs

• To join and support those projects which could impact the accounting and tax activities, being an active part of them

• People Management:

• Line management of two regional controllers (one for North America and one for Europe)

• Coordinate activities between Evinova entities to ensure streamlined financial reporting and forecasting in line with regional and group timelines/guidelines.

Personal Characteristics

• Proactive & take the initiative

• Attention to detail

• Challenge status quo

• See the bigger picture beyond just your role

• Build strong, trusting relationships

• Team player

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Essential for the role

• Strong breadth of experience across key Finance Processes

• Accounting qualification -min 5 yrs post-qualification experience

• Experience of working across a global organisation

• In-depth understanding of regulatory/statutory requirements and governance principles/SOX

• Experience of working with senior management in matrix environment

• Project Management experience

• Fluency in English / German

• University degree

Desirable

• SAP cloud

Why Evinova (AstraZeneca)?

Evinova draws on AstraZeneca’s deep experience developing novel therapeutics, informed by insights from thousands of patients and clinical researchers. Together, we can accelerate the delivery of life-changing medicines, improve the design and delivery of clinical trials for better patient experiences and outcomes, and think more holistically about patient care before, during, and after treatment. We know that regulators, healthcare professionals, and care teams at clinical trial sites do not want a fragmented approach. They do not want a future where every pharmaceutical company provides its own, different digital solutions. They want solutions that work across the sector, simplify their workload, and benefit patients broadly. By bringing our solutions to the wider healthcare community, we can help build more unified approaches to how we all develop and deploy digital technologies, better serving our teams, physicians, and ultimately patients. Evinova represents a unique opportunity to deliver meaningful outcomes with digital and AI to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards for the sector. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of health tech business to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting-edge methods, and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.