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About the Role
The Associate Director, Finance, will play a key leadership role across management accounting and financial reporting, ensuring a robust control environment and delivering high-quality financial insights to support business decision-making. This role is responsible for leading the month-end close process, overseeing financial reporting and technical accounting, and ensuring compliance with IFRS and internal policies. The role also serves as a strategic finance business partner, driving FP&A activities including budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis. The Associate Director will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders to resolve complex finance and accounting issues, support planning cycles, and ensure timely and accurate reporting. This is a highly visible position with broad impact across the finance function and the wider business.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a strong financial reporting and control environment.
- Lead the month-end close process ensuring accuracy, timeliness and completeness of financial results.
- Perform detailed account analysis, record journal entries, and prepare and review account reconciliations.
- Maintain the company’s internal control framework to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and company policies.
- Provide technical accounting leadership including the resolution of complex accounting transactions.
- Implement new accounting standards including issuance and updating of corporate accounting policies and procedures.
- Act as a strategic finance business partner, providing monthly results and financial analysis.
- Support the business with the annual planning cycle and quarterly forecasting activities.
- Collaborate with parent company and affiliates, responding to ad-hoc questions and requests.
- Support corporate financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes across departments.
- Manage staff and all aspects of accounts payable and the employee expense reporting process.
- Support interactions with parent company and affiliates, responding to ad-hoc questions and requests.
Requirements
- 7+ years of progressive experience in finance, accounting, or related roles including leadership responsibilities across financial reporting and FP&A.
- Industry-specific experience in biotech, healthcare preferred and ideally experience at a public accounting firm.
- Strong technical accounting expertise with experience navigating complex technical accounting issues.
- Demonstrated experience in financial planning, forecasting and business partnering with senior stakeholders.
- Proven ability to lead and develop teams, drive process improvement and operate effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with ERP and planning systems, ideally NetSuite and Adaptive Planning and advanced proficiency in Excel.
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex financial information for non-financial stakeholders and influence decision-making.
- Proven ability to build relationships and partner effectively with cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
Skills
- Financial reporting
- FP&A
- Technical accounting
- Financial planning
- Forecasting
- Business partnering
- Team leadership
- Process improvement
- ERP systems
- NetSuite
- Adaptive Planning
- Advanced Excel
- Organizational skills
- Prioritization skills
- Communication skills
- Relationship building
Location
- Hammersmith
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Associate Director
- 7+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting
- Master’s degree in business administration (MBA), finance, or related field preferred
- Charted Accountant (CA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), or similar professional designation (strongly preferred)
About the Company
- Orchard Therapeutics is a global biotechnology gene therapy company dedicated to transforming the lives of people affected by rare diseases through the development of innovative, potentially curative cell and gene therapies.
- Orchard has its global headquarters in London and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyowa Kirin, a Japan-based Global Specialty Pharmaceutical Company.