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IQVIA

Runs drug trials and sells health data to pharma

Financial Analyst

Corporate Finance & FP&AConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCourbevoie, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A higher-education qualification at Bac+5 level in financial analysis, management control, or accounting.
  • At least 5 years of experience in FP&A or business controlling in an international industrial, services, or consulting group environment.
  • Good knowledge and command of Oracle Hyperion.
  • Practical experience using artificial intelligence in an FP&A context.
  • Fluent English at C1 level.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and contribute to the preparation, loading, and validation of forecasts, budgets, and long-term plans, ensuring alignment with business drivers and IQVIA offer and reporting hierarchies.
  • Conduct monthly financial performance analyses comparing actuals with plans or forecasts, identify key variances, and provide clear, actionable analyses to stakeholders.
  • Support cost-center management, including monthly expense analysis and proactive identification of financial risks and opportunities.
  • Contribute to performance management and KPI governance, ensuring consistency, traceability, and appropriate escalation of significant matters.
  • Translate acquisition business cases into financial forecasts and plans, and ensure integration assumptions are documented, reviewed, and updated.
  • Collaborate with finance and accounting teams of acquired entities to align reporting practices, policies, and calendars with IQVIA standards.
  • Assess acquisition-specific financial rules and processes and lead necessary changes to ensure compliance with IQVIA Finance policies and internal controls.
  • Support integration reporting requirements, including rapid sensitivity analyses and successive iterations to converge with group standards.
  • Contribute to robust financial controls through balance-sheet account validation, consistency tests, and financial integrity reviews, particularly during integration.
  • Ensure financial and accounting records are complete, supported, and ready for internal and external audits.
  • Prepare and compile supporting documentation for financial deliverables, including analyses, reconciliations, and key assumptions.
  • Coordinate administration and effective use of financial systems and planning and reporting tools, such as SAP and other FP&A tools.
  • Support end-to-end financial controls required for system integration, including coordination of inputs, mappings and bridges, and validation of outputs during transition phases.
  • Maintain a thorough understanding of internal customer needs and continuously improve processes to meet or exceed them.
  • Participate in business reviews and regular meetings with cost-center managers and operational leaders to discuss forecasts and budgets, flag major issues, and propose corrective actions.
  • Proactively escalate issues and provide structured recommendations to management, balancing speed, reliability, and control requirements.
  • Perform other duties consistent with the role and the company's needs.
  • Present results for the France scope to the Executive Committee and members of the Social and Economic Committee.
  • Serve as the financial partner and primary contact for business-unit directors, supporting oversight of objectives and performance.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of the healthcare sector.

About the Company

IQVIA

Runs drug trials and sells health data to pharma

IQVIA runs clinical trials for drug, biotech and medical device companies and sells them the health data, software and analytics they use to develop and market treatments. Its research arm designs studies, recruits trial sites and patients, and manages trials through to regulatory filing. Its commercial arm sells market data, consulting and software that pharma sales and marketing teams use to plan product launches. Clients pay through multi-year service contracts and data and software subscriptions. IQVIA was formed in 2016 when clinical research firm Quintiles merged with health data company IMS Health, and it is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Durham, NC
Founded
1998

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