Job Overview
Location
United Kingdom - Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
June 14, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead the financial relationship with one of PerkinElmer’s largest strategic accounts as the senior finance voice in client discussions, shaping budgets, forecasts, and commercial decisions that directly impact account performance.
- • Own the development of annual and in-year client budgets in close collaboration with operational leaders and client finance teams, ensuring alignment with contractual scope, pricing models, and delivery plans.
- • Manage rolling forecasts including monthly reforecasts, variance analysis, and identification of financial risks and opportunities across all spend categories and client locations.
- • Maintain full visibility of forecast vs. actuals for contracted services, headcount and labor, ad hoc time and materials, and parts and pass-through costs, providing clear cost drivers and trend analysis to support decision-making.
- • Ensure timely receipt, validation, and tracking of client purchase orders against approved budgets and contractual entitlements, reconciling POs to forecasts, invoices, and contracts while proactively resolving discrepancies.
- • Own monthly financial close activities for assigned client sites, including accurate accruals, cost allocations, and journal entries compliant with internal controls and external accounting standards.
- • Partner with central finance and accounting teams to resolve close issues efficiently and meet strict deadlines while maintaining audit readiness in a regulated services environment.
- • Act as the primary finance contact for the client, engaging directly with senior operations and finance stakeholders to present financial performance, forecasts, risks, and opportunities in reviews, governance forums, and ad hoc discussions.
- • Build trusted client relationships that balance commercial rigor with a partnership mindset, becoming the go-to finance expert in all client interactions.
- • Support pricing, costing, and margin analysis for new business, scope changes, and contract amendments by assessing the financial impact of operational changes, service model adjustments, and productivity initiatives.
- • Provide financial insight to operations teams to support workforce planning, service delivery trade-offs, and productivity analysis by translating operational metrics into clear financial implications.
- • Partner with sourcing and procurement teams to deliver spend analysis, vendor comparisons, and cost models, supporting identification and validation of savings against baseline budgets and forecasts.
- • Perform weekly and monthly billing reviews to ensure invoices are accurate, timely, and contractually compliant, resolving billing discrepancies and disputes while maintaining client confidence.
- • Define, document, and implement financial processes and SOPs to address gaps, ensuring adherence to internal forecasting, approval, and governance frameworks.
- • Lead, coach, and develop a small team of finance analysts supporting the account, setting clear expectations, reviewing outputs, and building capability in forecasting, analysis, and stakeholder engagement.
- • Demonstrate strong judgment, commercial acumen, and strategic perspective with high attention to detail in a complex, multi-site, and multi-country service delivery environment.
🎯 Requirements
- • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience
- • Professional accounting qualification (CPA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) preferred
- • Significant finance experience in a client-facing or account-based role with budgets, forecasts, billing, and commercial support for sizeable accounts or portfolios
- • Background in services, managed services, or professional services with complex delivery and billing models
- • Comfort working across multiple stakeholders — operations, commercial, sourcing, and client finance — and translating between them
- • Strong judgment, partnership mindset, and ability to hold your own in senior client conversations
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to work as the senior finance lead for one of PerkinElmer’s largest strategic accounts
- • High-autonomy role with direct influence on commercial and financial decisions
- • Exposure to global service delivery models and regulated industries
- • Leadership and development opportunities for a small team of finance analysts
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About PerkinElmer, Inc.
PerkinElmer, Inc. is a global leader in applied, integrated solutions that help customers solve complex analytical challenges. The company provides innovative technologies and services for the life sciences, diagnostics, and applied markets. Its offerings include instruments, reagents, software, and services that support research, drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, and environmental testing. PerkinElmer's mission is to enable scientists and clinicians to make discoveries that improve the health and well-being of people worldwide. With a commitment to scientific excellence and customer collaboration, the company plays a crucial role in advancing scientific understanding and improving human health outcomes across various industries.
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