Senior Associate Finance Business Partner (12 Months FTC)
Location: London, Cambridge
Function: Finance (FP&A & Gross Margin Management)
Reporting to: Finance Lead / Senior Finance Manager
Drive Financial Excellence. Enable Better Decisions. Create Business Value.
This is more than a Finance role.
At Mundipharma, you’ll play a critical role in shaping global Gross Margin performance by delivering high-quality financial planning, forecasting, analysis, and reporting. You will serve as a trusted finance partner to stakeholders across Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams, ensuring accurate cost and profitability data supports strategic business decisions.
As a key member of the Global Gross Margin Finance team, you will be responsible for maintaining the integrity of SKU-level costing, managing critical Gross Margin reporting processes, and driving continuous improvements in financial data quality and transparency across the organization.
If you’re passionate about financial analysis, data accuracy, business partnering, and driving performance through insight, we’d love to hear from you.
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
Global Business Impact
Influence key business decisions by providing financial insights that directly support Gross Margin optimization and profitability across global markets.
Strategic Finance Partnership
Collaborate with Finance, Procurement, Commercial, and Supply Chain leaders to drive informed decision-making and strengthen business performance.
Ownership of Critical Data
Take accountability for maintaining and improving the integrity of global COGS and SKU-level costing data, which serves as the foundation for planning, forecasting, and reporting activities.
Exposure Across the Value Chain
Gain broad exposure to commercial operations, procurement activities, pricing strategies, product profitability, and financial planning processes.
Drive Continuous Improvement
Lead initiatives to enhance financial data quality, reporting efficiency, forecasting accuracy, and governance across the Gross Margin landscape.
Collaborative Global Environment
Work with stakeholders across multiple countries and functions, building strong partnerships that contribute to sustainable business growth.
The Opportunity
You will support the planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance analysis of Gross Margin across the organization.
You will be responsible for maintaining accurate product costing information, supporting financial planning cycles, managing Gross Margin reporting and analytics, and ensuring the quality and consistency of critical financial data.
Through close collaboration with Procurement, Commercial, and Finance teams, you will provide actionable insights that help optimize profitability and support strategic business decisions.
Key Responsibilities
Gross Margin Planning, Forecasting & Analysis
- Support Global Gross Margin planning, forecasting, modelling, reporting, and decision-making activities.
- Deliver financial analysis and insights that support business objectives and profitability improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to budget, forecast, monthly reporting, and long-range planning processes.
- Provide meaningful commentary and performance explanations to support stakeholder understanding and decision-making.
COGS & SKU Cost Management
- Maintain full accountability for the Global True COGS by SKU database, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and integrity across reporting and planning cycles.
- Manage monthly updates to SKU-level cost data used for Actuals, Budget, Outlook, and Mid-Year Estimate processes.
- Review and process SKU approvals ahead of monthly close activities and ensure all inventory SKUs are accurately maintained.
- Serve as custodian of centralized product costing information and cost-per-unit data.
Gross Margin Reporting & Performance Insights
- Support achievement of Gross Margin performance targets through robust reporting, analysis, and commentary.
- Prepare Gross Margin Contribution and Price-Volume-Mix (PVM) analysis to explain business performance and key drivers.
- Partner with commercial entities and regional clusters to ensure alignment of financial assumptions and reporting outputs.
- Provide clear, actionable recommendations based on financial trends and performance indicators.
Procurement & Cost Management Partnership
- Collaborate closely with Direct Procurement and Bard teams through regular review meetings.
- Evaluate supplier pricing updates and maintain centralized price lists used for planning and reporting.
- Ensure product cost changes are accurately reflected within financial systems and models.
- Support cost optimization initiatives through accurate analysis and financial insight.
Financial Systems & Data Management
- Upload Cost per Unit and Freight data into Tagetik for centrally sourced products.
- Calculate and maintain accurate COGS information using contractual inputs, procurement data, and volume assumptions.
- Prepare and proc
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