Financial Analyst, FP&A

Join the Centricity Research Team!

Centricity Research is one of North America's largest clinical research networks and a fully centralized Integrated Research Organization (IRO). We conduct Phase I-IV clinical trials across more than 35 therapeutic areas, partnering with leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies to advance healthcare through innovative clinical research. Join our growing team and build a rewarding career while helping bring new treatments to patients.

About the Role

We're looking for a Financial Analyst, FP&A to support budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis across corporate and site-level cost centers. This remote Canada role will focus on recurring reporting, variance analysis, cash-flow management, and rolling forecasts while helping strengthen our growing FP&A function.

Over time, you'll grow into a trusted finance partner to operational, clinical, and site leaders. You'll help maintain shared models, automate recurring reporting, and create useful dashboards. This role is a great fit for someone analytical, curious, adaptable, and eager to learn and collaborate.

What You’ll Do

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Budgeting & Forecasting: Support the annual budgeting process and periodic re-forecasts, build andmaintainrolling forecasts, and track variances to flag risks and opportunities early.

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Financial Modeling: Build and continuously improve financial models supporting site performance, study/trial economics, and new business cases, and develop KPI and unit-economics tracking (cost per site, trial margin, revenue per therapeutic area).

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Business Partnership: Serve as a trusted finance partnertooperational, clinical, and site leaders, preparing monthly and quarterly business reviews with variance commentary and recommendations.

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Dashboards & Reporting: Build dashboards and reporting packages in Excel, Power BI, or similar tools that give stakeholders self-service visibility into their numbers.

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Team Collaboration: Work closely with other FP&A analysts on the shared financial model, helpingmaintaindata integrity and building repeatable analytics processes rather than one-off analyses.

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FP&A Function Buildout: Helpestablishcore recurring tasks and best practices as the function matures, including resource optimization analysis and integrated P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow modeling.

You Might Be a Great Fit If You:

- Have a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field is preferred; equivalent education or relevant experience will also be considered.

- Bring relevant experience or demonstrated capability in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting, or a similarly analytical role. Early-career through experienced candidates are welcome.

- Have strong Excel skills for your career stage, including lookups, pivot tables, SUMIFS, and sensitivity or scenario modeling, along with sound financial-modeling fundamentals.

- Are curious, coachable, and comfortable learning new financial systems and tools, with an interest in automating or streamlining manual processes.

- Have a solid grasp of core accounting and finance principles (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, unit economics).

- Communicate financial information clearly to non-finance audiences and build strong, collaborative working relationships.

- Are proactive, adaptable, and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and contribute wherever help is needed.

- Experience in healthcare, life sciences, biotech, pharma, or a clinical research organization (CRO/IRO/site network) is a plus, not a requirement.

- Familiarity with planning or BI tools such as Workday Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, NetSuite Planning and Budgeting, Power BI, or Tableau is an asset.

- Exposure to ERP systems such as NetSuite, Sage Intacct, or Microsoft Dynamics, or working knowledge of SQL, is an asset.

- A CPA designation, or active pursuit of one, is preferred but not required.

Why Centricity