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About the Role

Positioned within the CDIO Office, this role is accountable for end-to-end financial governance and operating cost management for Global Digital & IT (GDIT). It ensures disciplined financial control, transparency, and value realization across day-to-day and forward-looking IT spend by applying standardized financial frameworks, SOPs, tools, and master data models. The role actively promotes a FinOps culture through automation, simplification, and data-driven decision-making in close alignment with Finance, Procurement, and GDIT leadership.

Responsibilities

Ensure consistent application of GDIT financial governance standards.
Maintain compliance with defined standards and support operational rollout of automation and simplification initiatives.
Collect, consolidate, and analyze GDIT financial performance data.
Prepare recurring performance materials and dashboards providing clear and forward-looking insights.
Actively monitor and optimize day-to-day IT operating spend across infrastructure, cloud, network, and application domains.
Analyze run-cost drivers to identify underutilized resources, inefficiencies, and opportunities for optimization or cost avoidance.
Partner with GDIT leadership, budget holders, and Finance to ensure timely renewal of run costs and accurate purchase order creation, validation, and approval.
Provide high-quality input to forecasting and budgeting cycles.
Define, enforce, and monitor tagging and allocation policies, particularly for cloud expenditure.
Investigate invoice discrepancies, cost anomalies, and variances between forecast, actuals, and vendor billing.
Coordinate with internal stakeholders, suppliers, procurement, and accounting teams to resolve issues.
Report and manage Deferred reporting with a high level of accuracy.
Prepare, validate, and submit Accruals data in line with accounting timelines and quality expectations.
Support monthly and annual financial closures by liaising with the Financial Controller and budget holders.
Ensure ongoing compliance with financial policies, internal controls, and regulatory requirements.
Actively contribute to audits, address findings, and support remediation actions.
Maintain advanced financial dashboards and reporting capabilities to enable data-driven financial decision-making.
Provide clear, actionable insights to leadership on spending trends, cost drivers, ROI, and emerging financial risks.
Partner closely with Procurement and GDIT stakeholders to drive cost-effective sourcing strategies.
Ensure contract compliance and identify optimization opportunities throughout the vendor lifecycle.
Contribute financial insights to contract negotiations, renewals, and demand management.
Act as the single point of contact between GDIT and internal or external auditors.
Document and govern all Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs) arising from IT audit findings.
Monitor and follow up on CAPA execution, proactively identifying delays or risks.
Ensure compliance with contract governance policies by guaranteeing all executed agreements are properly recorded.
Proactively manage contract lifecycle milestones, identifying and tracking key dates.
Monitor execution of lifecycle activities, ensuring timely completion of agreed actions.
Escalate risks and potential impacts to leadership when key milestones or obligations are at risk of being missed.

Requirements

Mastery of FinOps Framework and maturity models and ability to promote and explain the framework.
Strong understanding of accrual accounting, cost centre accounting, and period-end financial processes.
Advanced financial reporting and analysis skills, including the design, automation, and maintenance of management dashboards and standard reports.
Ability to work effectively with Financial Controllers and Accounting teams.
Working knowledge of cloud pricing models, billing structures, and cost optimization strategies.
Asset Management and contract lifecycle management with cloud services providers.
Demonstrated success in managing budgets and delivering financial reporting.
Cost allocation, ROI analysis and value delivery evaluation.
Ability to interpret weak signal in data and uncover cost-saving opportunities.
Evidenced experience of supporting process improvements and automation.
High agency - ability to navigate unclear situations & proactive information searching.
Effectively prioritize and execute tasks, agile and adaptable when given new information or direction.
Strong oral and written communication skills with stakeholders at all levels.
Persuasive, encouraging and diplomatic.
Elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources and across matrix organisation.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Products (O365, CoPilot) and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI).
Experience with SAP, ARIBA and SAC BW reporting.
Understanding of cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and platforms (AWS, Azure, etc).
Use of cloud cost management tools (e.g., Apptio, CloudHealth, AWS Cost Explorer, Azure advises).
SQL/Python
Power Automate / Copilot
English (essential)
French (advantage)

Skills

FinOps Framework
Accrual accounting
Cost centre accounting
Period-end financial processes
Financial reporting
Financial analysis
Management dashboards
Standard reports
Cloud pricing models
Cloud billing structures
Cost optimization strategies
Asset Management
Contract lifecycle management
Budget management
Financial reporting delivery
Cost allocation
ROI analysis
Value delivery evaluation
Data interpretation
Process improvement
Automation
Microsoft Office Products (O365, CoPilot)
Power BI
SAP
ARIBA
SAC BW reporting
Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
AWS
Azure
Apptio
CloudHealth
AWS Cost Explorer
Azure advises
SQL
Python
Power Automate
Copilot

Location

Global

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Mid-level

Education Level

Master's degree

About the Company

Ipsen is a mid-sized global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on transformative medicines in three therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience.
Supported by nearly 100 years of development experience, with global hubs in the U.S., France and the U.K, we tackle areas of high unmet medical need through research and innovation.
Our passionate teams in more than 40 countries are focused on what matters and endeavor every day to bring medicines to patients in 88 countries.
We build a workplace that champions human-centric leadership and fosters a culture of collaboration, excellence and impact.
At Ipsen, every individual is empowered to be their true selves, grow and thrive alongside the company’s success.
Join us on our journey towards sustainable growth, creating real impact on patients and society!
For more information, visit us at https://www.ipsen.com/ and follow our latest news on LinkedIn and Instagram.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels heard, valued and supported, where we embody ‘The Real Us*’.
The value we place on diverse perspectives and experiences drives our commitment to inclusion and equal opportunity.
When we embrace diverse ways of thinking, we make more thoughtful decisions and discover more innovative solutions.
Together, we strive to better understand the communities we serve.
This means we also want to help you do your best when applying for a job with us.
If you need accommodations or assistance during the application process, please inform the recruitment team.
This information will be treated with care and will not affect the outcome of your application.
*Let’s be ourselves