Associate Director Finance
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.
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
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Why Syneos Health
• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.
Job Responsibilities
Job Summary
Ensures the integrity of the revenue recognition policies. Sets standards of reporting on actuals, forecasts and backlog that meet and exceed the financial reporting requirements and business needs of the therapeutic area globally. Functionally or directly supervises a team of finance professionals who partner and support the therapeutic areas to achieve and exceed their financial targets.
Core Responsibilities
If assigned, oversees management and direction of assigned accounting personnel. Approves course of action on all management/human resources’ matters, including employment hires, transfers, terminations, promotions, performance appraisals and professional development, job descriptions and employee evaluation, training, counseling and discipline of direct staff members.
Recommends, develops, and maintains INCR revenue recognition principals, policy, processes, systems, practices, controls and procedures that are compliant with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) associated with gross, net and deferred revenue activities. Recommends proper GAAP accounting on new contracts as needed.
Records and reports project revenues for each contract type in accordance and compliant with GAAP and the Revenue recognition policy. Ensures full compliance with monthly accounting close schedule. Develops and improves unbilled and deferred revenue accounting and reporting.
Works closely with and takes global ownership for therapeutic areas to ensure revenue recognition policies are being followed consistently. Globally, communicates new control processes and provides recommendations on implementation. Works closely with and takes global ownership for therapeutic areas around project close-out and project tracker balances to ensure the latest project financial profile properly reflects the financial position of the project at month end.
Performs quarterly review of the company’s financial applications and documents processes and procedures to ensure compliance with GAAP, and corporate policy.
Develops reviews and approves proposals, change orders and contract payment milestone terms that support corporate profit and liquidity targets.
Reviews, reports and summarizes project results and metrics at the project and executive level on a monthly basis. Recommends…