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< class="h3" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">Are you ready to contribute to the company with a real purpose?

 

 

At Castor, you can put your expertise to use for the greater good. We are a leading cloud-based clinical data platform, working with some of the world’s largest medical device companies, biopharma, and renowned academic institutes. Our products are used by over 85.000 researchers and millions of patients worldwide.

 

We simplify the clinical trial process, from recruitment to analysis, with user-friendly, patient-centric technology. Our mission is to bring medical research into the digital age. With our products, we help extend human healthspan: the faster, better, and more inclusive medical research is, the longer and healthier lives can be lived around the globe.

 

Next to being very purpose-driven, we are proud of our caring company culture. Although we are a fast-growing scale-up, we follow our values diligently and take the well-being of each Castorian seriously.

< class="h3" style="text-align: center;">What you’ll focus on

As FP&A Lead you will support and partner with our management team. Being part of the Growth Finance and Business Intelligence team, you will be focussing on performance analysis and planning, aiding our management team in making their strategies into numbers. You will support budget and forecasting activities, as well as support the core finance team with relevant improvement projects to understand and drive performance. Predominantly commercial-focused, you will have the opportunity to work across the company, providing a unique opportunity to develop your career in finance.

This is a remote role and we welcome applicants from all countries +/- 4hrs CET.

 

< class="h3" style="text-align: center;">What you’ll be doing

 

 

• Create and drive business performance reporting to ensure visibility on performance vs plan;

• Report and deliver commercial analytics, including commentary analysis;

• Analyze monthly financial results vs budget and investigate significant variances;

• Implement new control processes surrounding cost (e.g. headcount management software);

• Drive the execution of the budgeting and forecasting process - liaising with the department leaders to ensure timely updates;

• Ownership of pricing calculator in collaboration with SalesOps;

• Support the business insights team with ad hoc improvement projects

 

< class="h3" style="text-align: center;">More about you

 

You are a confident professional with commercial finance experience (Tech/Saas would be a big plus!) and you are comfortable in being proactive and independent in your approach to work. In addition to your hard skills, you are also a great communicator. You'll do it by:

 

 

• Impeccable written and spoken communication skills, with professional fluency in English;

• Prior experience with Salesforce, FinancialForce, Planful, or an affinity for technology;

• Solid experience in finance and 3+ years in FP&A specifically;

• Solutions focussed mentality with the ability to see the mystery behind numbers, and have that eye for detail;

• Experience in building strong partnerships with stakeholders and ability to operate in an advisory capacity towards the business;

 

< class="h3" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;">How Castor takes care of you

 

At Castor we truly live and breathe one of our core values, believing we can achieve anything with a healthy and happy team. Our benefits reflect this:

 

 

• Competitive pay, guaranteed ‘happy holidays’ bonus, a prospective ‘company performance’ bonus, Employee Stock Option Plan, learning & development budget

• Unlimited annual leave (with a minimum of 25 days, plus additional national holidays)

• A fully remote role*, with financial support for your home office set-up

• A flexible working schedule: nobody is tracking your time except you, we focus on output and delivery.

• A great work-life balance

• A company MacBook or Dell laptop, and all other needed gear to work comfortably from home

• Virtual health package: a subscription to Calm, quarterly downtime weeks, well-being workshops, sleeping courses, virtual company events, and celebrations

• When possible again, annual company retreats in person

 

*If you already reside in the Netherlands, you are welcome to work from our Castor Burrow in Amsterdam.

 

 

Don’t have an updated CV just yet? Feel free to apply with your LinkedIn profile, or by contacting our Talent Partner Yulia Bondar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Castor continues to grow as an Equal Opportunities Employer. We strongly encourage applications from women, people of colour, and people from the LGBTQ(+) community. Please feel free to share the pronouns you use (for example, she/her/hers, he/her/his, they/them/theirs, etc.).