Saluda Medical was founded in 2013 the purpose of transforming patient’s lives by pioneering disruptive smart neuromodulation solutions. As a fast-growing company with global R&D activities, the primary purpose of this role to the trusted financial partner to the Research & Development Business leadership teams in achieving their strategic and financial goals. This role will be a key member of the FP&A team and work closely with the VP of Finance and the R&D leadership teams. 

Core Responsibilities:

Strategic and Financial Planning: 

• Together with the R&D leadership teams, develop the R&D Business Units’ strategic and financial plans that align with achieving Saluda’s overall strategic goals.
• Prior experience in financial appraisal and strategic planning for both long and short term financial planning (5/10 year), strong annual and operation budget as well as quarterly forecasting and OpEx review analysis

Financial Business Partnering:

• Partner the R&D Business Unit teams to deliver on their strategic and financial plans.
• Proven experience leading and contributing to improvement initiatives such as portfolio reporting/process, RFQ and supplier network and system improvements

Financial Performance Reporting and Management:

• Operate and continuously improve the financial performance management processes, reports and KPI’s to enable the R&D business units to achieve their business goals.
• Experience delivering accurate monthly results, forecast and budget pack as well as oversight and distribution of action oriented KPI dashboards. 
• Experience developing action plans and improvement of reporting capabilities and finance technologies 

Maintaining an Effective Internal Control Environment

• Together with the financial accounting team, ensuring an effective internal control environment for the R&D Business Units to ensure integrity of the financial information.
• Strong understanding regarding financial policies and protocol related to internal controls monitoring and compliance auditing

Additional expectations:

• Ability to work effectively across time zones and cultures.
• Some travel may be required.

Essential Requirements:

• Successful FP&A track record including budgeting/forecasts, management reports and analytics.
• Professional Accounting or Finance Qualifications (Chartered, CPA or equivalent)
• 10 years commercial experience in a multinational organization
• Strong knowledge of project and portfolio accounting with hands on experience working in a project environment (medical device or pharmaceutical preferred but not required)
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Ability to build strong relationships with a range of stakeholders cross-functionally
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence teams and driving process excellence.
• Strong in Microsoft Excel, attention to detail and advanced financial modelling
• Good working knowledge of MS PowerPoint and Word
• Experience with ERP (eg QAD or similar), BI (Workday Analytics, Power BI, or similar)

• Outstanding business planning & analysis skills

Desirable Requirements:

• Experience in the medical device manufacturing field or a similar highly regulated business environment
• Experience with Project accounting and Project methodologies
• Experience with QAD ERP, Workday Analytics, Power BI