Director of Finance

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We are a specialty vaccine company that develops, manufactures, and commercializes prophylactic vaccines for infectious diseases addressing unmet medical needs.

We have leveraged our expertise and capabilities both to commercialize three vaccines, including the world's first and only chikungunya vaccine, and to rapidly advance a broad range of vaccine candidates into and through the clinic, including candidates against Lyme disease and Zika.

With operations in Austria, Canada, France, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the U.S., we are committed to making a positive impact on global public health.

Together, we are a global Company which is open to people of all backgrounds. Our diverse and inclusive workforce makes Valneva a great place to work.

We are seeking a skilled and versatile Director of Finance to join our team at our Regional Finance Hub in Livingston.

Your role is to manage the company's accounting and financial affairs for all entities within the Regional Finance Hub as well as managing the reporting of Group inventory and Group COGS. To provide accurate and timely financial data to the parent company, external and internal stakeholders. Ensure the operational efficiency of the Regional Finance Hub financial function is maintained and enhanced.

Member of the site executive/leadership team, Global Operations Senior Leadership Team and Senior Finance team. Act as the primary contact for all Finance activities within scope and collaborate with other functions as appropriate to ensure delivery against plan. Ensure compliance with local and global processes, policies and systems. Act as main Finance functional leader for the COO covering FP&A related activities of Global Operations.

Main contact person for external auditors and key responsibility of the role to deal with complex inventory valuation and manufacturing accounting related topics as well as queries concerning the internal controls / SOX environment.

Manage all statutory and management accounting activities of the Regional Finance Hub and contribute to the site performance as agreed through the performance management objectives, in particular:

• Support the Site (UK & Sweden) Leadership and Management Teams, act as local "Finance Director"
• Lead and develop the Regional Finance Hub based in Scotland and create leverage by providing accounting services to Sweden
• Ensure accurate and timely local contribution to group IFRS reporting on a monthly & quarterly basis
• Production of accurate and timely financial reports in accordance with UK and Swedish GAAP ensuring organisational compliance with UK and Swedish tax laws
• Act as key point of contact for auditors and manage local IFRS and UK / Swedish GAAP audit processes
• Act as key point of contact to tax advisors and manage timely and accurate preparation and filing of tax returns;
• Ensure that suitable financial controls are in place to protect the assets of Valneva Scotland Ltd, Valneva UK Ltd and Valneva Sweden AB and safeguard adherence to defined internal control procedures over financial reporting
• Monitor and manage cash flow on a weekly basis
• Act as a principle contact person for all bank partners; supervise payment and bank account management
• Prepare the Regional Finance Hub organization for potential future enhancement of responsibilities
• Manage all FP&A activities of VLA Scotland, VLA UK and VLA Sweden and manage Group inventory and Group COGS. Lead the regular management reporting as well as managing the local financial planning processes in particular:
• Perform the annual budgeting process, in partnership with the Global FP&A team and local stakeholders
• Lead and develop the Regional Finance Hub based FP&A team responsible for all manufacturing activities across Scotland, Sweden and Austria as aligned to the responsibilities of the COO
• Perform monthly reporting processes and compile standardized management reports focused on providing business insights and decision support to Operations management
• Be responsible for the development, collation and reporting of key business metrics, and use…