VP Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (all genders)

Das ist der Job

The position can be based at either our Headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, or in Abingdon, UK.

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With a strong focus on business performance, value creation, and finance transformation, this leader will drive continuous improvement in financial planning processes, reporting capabilities, and data‑driven decision‑making while leading a high‑performing global team.

Lead the preparation of Executive Leadership Team and Board‑level financial reporting, business reviews, and strategic planning materials, ensuring clear communication of financial performance, risks, opportunities, and key business drivers.

Lead, coach, and develop a high‑performing FP&A team, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, business partnership, and analytical excellence.

Partner closely with Finance Business Partnering, Global Business Controlling, Accounting, and Operational Leadership teams to ensure integrated financial planning and performance management across the organization.

Ensure the delivery of timely, accurate, and actionable financial insights to support effective decision‑making at Executive Leadership Team and Board levels. Experience partnering effectively with senior executives and business leaders in a complex, matrixed, and international environment.

Demonstrated success leading and developing high‑performing finance teams and driving organizational performance through strong leadership and influence. Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization, including Executive Leadership Teams and Boards of Directors.

A truly international mindset, with experience working across multiple geographies and diverse cultural environments. Evotec is seeking a highly accomplished and strategic VP Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to lead the global FP&A function and serve as a trusted partner to the CFO and senior business leaders.

This role is responsible for delivering financial insights, supporting strategic decision‐making, and driving the company’s planning, forecasting, performance management, and Medium‑range planning processes across the organization.

The VP Head of FP&A will oversee global budgeting, forecasting, and medium‑range planning activities, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy, operational priorities, and financial objectives. This is a senior leadership position, reporting to the SVP Head of FP&A and Transformation.

Key Responsibilities Act as a trusted strategic partner to the CFO and senior business leaders, providing financial insights and decision support to drive business performance and value creation.

Develop robust financial analyses and performance narratives to support strategic initiatives, capital allocation decisions, business development activities, investment evaluations, and medium‑range planning.

Lead the global Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) function, ensuring consistency, transparency, and alignment across all regions, functions, and business units. Drive the annual budgeting, rolling forecasting, and medium‑range planning processes, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy, operational objectives, and market dynamics.

Establish, monitor, and continuously enhance key performance indicators (KPIs) and performance management frameworks to improve accountability, visibility, and business outcomes.

Own and continuously improve the global financial planning and reporting infrastructure, including financial models, management reporting processes, planning tools, and analytics capabilities.

Drive finance transformation initiatives, leveraging technology, automation, and data analytics to enhance forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and decision‑making support.

Provide financial leadership and analytical support for strategic projects, including acquisitions, partnerships, business cases, organizational transformation initiatives, and investment decisions.

Qualifications University degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related discipline; MBA, CFA, or other advanced qualification preferred.

Significant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, business finance, financial strategy, or management consulting, preferably within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, healthcare, or other complex global industries.

Proven track record of leading financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and strategic decision‑support processes within a multinational organization. Strong analytical and commercial acumen, with the ability to translate complex financial information into actionable business insights and recommendations.

Strong knowledge of financial systems, planning tools, reporting platforms, and data analytics solutions; experience driving finance transformation initiatives is highly desirable. Fluent English communication skills (written and verbal); additional languages are considered an advantage.

FR : Dans le cadre de sa politique Diversité, Evotec étudie, à compétences égales, toutes les candidatures dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap. ENG : In the frame of our Diversity policy, Evotec considers, with equal competences, all applications including people with disabilities.

Evotec is a life science company with a unique business model that delivers on its mission to discover and develop highly effective therapeutics and make them available to the patients.

The Company’s multimodality platform comprises a unique combination of innovative technologies, data and science for the discovery, development, and production of first‑in‑class and best‑in‑class pharmaceutical products.

Evotec leverages this “Data‑driven R&D Autobahn to Cures” for proprietary projects and within a network of partners including all Top 20 Pharma and over 800 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, as well as other healthcare stakeholders.

Evotec has strategic activities in a broad range of currently underserved therapeutic areas, including e.g. neurology, oncology, as well as metabolic and infectious diseases.

Within these areas of expertise, Evotec aims to create the world‑leading co‑owned pipeline for innovative therapeutics and has to‑date established a portfolio of more than 200 proprietary and co‑owned R&D projects from early discovery to clinical development. Evotec operates globally with more than 5,000 highly qualified people.

The Company’s 17 sites offer highly synergistic technologies and services and operate as complementary clusters of excellence. For additional information please go to www.evotec.com and follow us on X/Twitter @Evotec and LinkedIn.