VP Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (all genders)

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. 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. 

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

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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. 

• Ensure the delivery of timely, accurate, and actionable financial insights to support effective decision-making at Executive Leadership Team and Board levels. 

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. 

• 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. 

• Strong knowledge of financial systems, planning tools, reporting platforms, and data analytics solutions; experience driving finance transformation initiatives is highly desirable. 

• 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. 

• Fluent English communication skills (written and verbal); additional languages are considered an advantage. 

• A truly international mindset, with experience working across multiple geographies and diverse cultural environments. 

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.