Unilabs

Global Costing, Net Profitability Finance Manager

Unilabs

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Porto • 🇵🇹 Portugal

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SeniorLead

About the role

  • **About Unilabs**
  • Headquartered in Geneva and part of the A.P. Moller Group, Unilabs is one of Europe’s leading medical diagnostics companies, offering a complete range of laboratory, pathology, genetics, and imaging services to patients across 14 countries. Unilabs invests heavily in technology, equipment, and people – using digital technologies in its state-of-the-art laboratories and imaging institutes – to improve the lives of close to 100 million people every year.
  • **Role Purpose **
  • The Global Costing & Net Profitability Finance Manager is a key strategic finance position for Unilabs.
  • The role is designed to provide **full transparency over end-to-end operational costs **at the right level of granularity and to **build the foundations of Unilabs’ global costing and net profitability framework**, leveraging data, analytics, and Business Intelligence (BI).
  • This position plays a critical role in enabling informed decision-making, improving margin visibility, and supporting sustainable value creation across the Group.
  • **Key Responsibilities:**
  • **Costing & Profitability Framework **
  • - Design, develop, and continuously improve Unilabs’ **global costing and net profitability models **across the end-to-end value chain
  • - Ensure cost allocation methodologies are robust, consistent, and aligned with business realities
  • - Define the appropriate level of granularity to support operational, commercial, and strategic decisions
  • **Operational Cost Transparency **
  • - Provide clear visibility into **operational cost drivers** across regions, businesses, and services
  • - Partner with operations, procurement, and commercial teams to understand cost structures and performance levers
  • - Identify opportunities for cost optimization and margin improvement
  • **Data, BI & Analytics Enablement **
  • - Build and own the **data foundations** for costing and net profitability analysis
  • - Work closely with BI and IT teams to develop scalable, automated dashboards and reporting tools
  • - Ensure data quality, consistency, and governance across sources
  • **Governance & Standardization**
  • - Define and promote global standards, methodologies, and best practices for costing and profitability analysis
  • - Support rollout and adoption across countries and business units
  • - Ensure alignment with Group Finance policies and controls
  • **Management, Business Partnering & Decision Support **
  • - Manage a Global Costing Controller
  • - Act as a **strategic finance partner **to Group and local leadership teams
  • - Deliver actionable insights to support pricing, investment decisions, and performance management
  • - Translate complex financial data into clear, business-oriented insights
  • - **Key Stakeholders **
  • - Global Finance Teams
  • - Local Finance Teams
  • - Operations, Commercial, and Procurement Teams both Global and Local
  • - BI, Data, and IT Functions

Requirements

  • **Experience & Qualifications **
  • - Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field (MBA and/or professional finance qualification is a plus)
  • - **Approximately 10 years or more of relevant professional experience**, preferably in a complex, international environment
  • - **Fluent in English **
  • - Experience in costing, **revenue growth management and net profit management** is a strong plus
  • - Exposure to healthcare, medical diagnostics, or other operationally complex environments is a plus
  • **Skills & Competencies **
  • - Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
  • - Ability to manage complexity and design scalable, data-driven financial models
  • - Strong understanding of end-to-end value chains and cost drivers
  • - Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
  • - Strategic mindset combined with hands-on execution ability
  • - Comfortable working in a fast-paced, transformation-oriented environment

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
costing modelsnet profitability analysisdata analyticsBusiness Intelligence (BI)cost allocation methodologiesfinancial modelingdata governanceoperational cost analysismargin improvementrevenue growth management
Soft skills
analytical capabilitiesproblem-solvingstakeholder managementcommunication skillsstrategic mindsethands-on executioncomplexity managementdecision supportbusiness partneringinsight delivery
Certifications
MBAprofessional finance qualification