Cost & Value Management Analyst

Title:

Cost & Value Management Analyst

Company:

Ipsen Pharma (SAS)

About Ipsen:

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.

Job Description:

Positioned within the CDIO Office the Cost and Value Management Analyst role is accountable for end‑to‑end financial governance and operating cost management for Global Digital & IT (GDIT), ensuring disciplined financial control, transparency, and value realization across day‑to‑day and forward‑looking IT spend. The role applies standardized financial frameworks, SOPs, tools, and master data models, while actively promoting a FinOps culture through automation, simplification, and data‑driven decision‑making in close alignment with Finance, Procurement, and GDIT leadership.

The role oversees run‑cost data, its optimization, budget execution, purchase and invoice lifecycle management, accruals (CCA/FNP), and monthly/yearly financial closings, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely reporting. It delivers high‑quality financial insights via dashboards and performance materials to support operational and strategic decisions, identify optimization opportunities, manage financial risks, and maximize ROI. Acting as the single point of contact for IT audits, the role governs audit findings and CAPAs, ensuring effective remediation and a strong IT control environment.

WHAT - Main Responsibilities & Technical Competencies

Financial Governance for Global Digital & IT

• Ensure the consistent application of GDIT financial governance standards by applying approved financial frameworks, SOPs, tools, and master data models across daily operations.
• FinOps culture: Maintain compliance with defined standards and instructions, and support the operational rollout of automation and simplification initiatives to improve efficiency, data quality, transparency, and scalability in alignment with GDIT and Finance.
• Performance management & insights: Contribute to performance management activities by collecting, consolidating, and analysing GDIT financial performance data. Prepare recurring performance materials and dashboards in line with defined standards, providing clear and forward‑looking insights that support decision‑making and help identify optimisation opportunities and financial risks.

Day‑to‑Day Operating Costs Management

·       Cost optimization & value realization: Actively monitor and optimize day‑to‑day IT operating spend across infrastructure, cloud, network, and application domains. Analyse run‑cost drivers to identify underutilized resources, inefficiencies, and opportunities for optimization or cost avoidance, ensuring spend remains aligned with delivered value.

·       Budget execution & purchase lifecycle management: Partner with GDIT leadership, budget holders, and Finance to ensure timely renewal of recurring and one‑off run costs, and the accurate creation, validation, and approval of purchase orders. Provide high‑quality input to forecasting and budgeting cycles in close collaboration with the Financial Controller. Define, enforce, and monitor tagging and allocation policies—particularly for cloud expenditure—to ensure accurate cost attribution.

·       Invoice variance & disputes management: 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, follow up on unpaid invoices, and provide clear status updates and root‑cause analysis.

• Deferred & Accruals management: Report and manage Deferred reporting with a high level of accuracy for submission to Accounting team. Prepare, validate, and submit Accruals data in line with accounting timelines and quality expectations.
• Financial closing activities (monthly & yearly): Support monthly and annual financial closures by liaising with the Financial Controller and budget holders to ensure receipts are completed, accruals are accurate, and all required financial information is collected and validated within deadlines.
• Compliance, controls & audit support: Ensure ongoing compliance with financial policies, internal controls, and regulatory requirements across IT financial operations. Actively contribute to audits, address findings, and support remediation actions related to operating cost management and financial processes.

Forward‑Looking Operating Costs Management

·       Enable data‑driven financial decision‑making by maintaining advanced financial dashboards and reporting capabilities. Provide clear, actionable insights to leadership on spending trends, cost drivers, return on investment (ROI), and emerging financial risks, supporting both strategic planning and proactive operational cost management.

·       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 to maximize value, mitigate financial risks, and support sustainable cost structures.

GDIT Audit SPOC and CAPA Oversight

·       Act as the single point of contact between GDIT and internal or external auditors, ensuring clear coordination and timely communication throughout IT audit activities.

·       Document and govern all Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs) arising from IT audit findings, ensuring clear ownership, stakeholder commitment, and agreed remediation actions and timelines.

·       Monitor and follow up on CAPA execution, proactively identifying delays or risks and escalating issues to line management to support effective remediation and a strong IT control environment.

Contract lifecycle management oversight

·       Ensures compliance with contract governance policies by guaranteeing that all executed agreements are properly recorded and maintained in the designated repository.

·       Proactively manages contract lifecycle milestones, identifying and tracking key dates (e.g., renewals, notice periods, obligations) and aligning required actions with contract owners.

·       Monitors execution of lifecycle activities, ensuring timely completion of agreed actions and maintaining visibility on contract status.

·       Escalates risks and potential impacts to leadership when key milestones or obligations are at risk of being missed, supporting timely mitigation and decision-making.

  Knowledge & Experience (essential)

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 to ensure accurate expense recognition, compliance with accounting standards, and high‑quality inputs into monthly and annual closings
• 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.

Soft skills

·       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.

Technical Competencies 

• 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

Language(s)

• English (essential), French (advantage)

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