Senior Financial Analyst

2 months ago

Cambridge, United States Planet Professional Full time

Senior Financial Analyst

Direct Hire

Location: Hybrid, 3 days on site (ideally combination of Cambridge/Lexington), free parking


Must Haves:

  • Experience doing financial analysis for R&D trials
  • Experience with a company going through clinical trials
  • Bachelor's in Accounting or Finance
  • Excel modeling
  • Familiar with accruals and accounting
  • Prior experience business partnering
  • Process improvement
  • 5+ years of experience


Senior Financial Analyst Description:

The Senior Financial Analyst is an active member of the Finance Department. The position plays a critical role in finance department, responsible for managing the budgeting and forecasting process, and providing financial analysis as well as insights to support decision-making. The Senior Financial Analyst works closely with finance, functional departments and program leads to identify opportunities for growth, cost savings, and optimization of financial resources. This a hybrid position, you will be expected to work on site at our Cambridge, MA facility.

Job Summary

Reporting into the Director of FP&A, as the Senior Financial Analyst, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the financial health of the organization by:

  • Supporting the development of financial strategies ,
  • managing the budgeting process for a group of functional and program leads, and
  • providing comprehensive financial analysis and insights to support decision-making

Your contributions through experience and expertise will lead us closer to our goals to:

  • Support business planning and decision-making
  • Identify opportunities for growth, cost savings, and optimization of financial resources

Responsibilities:

Process management

  • Identify opportunities for process improvements and continuous enhancements of financial process and controls
  • Update financial models supporting the company long range plans and various strategic scenario plans

Financial analysis

  • Ability to effectively communicate financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders
  • Effectively prioritizes business problems based on urgency and relevance
  • Selects the right tools and analytic techniques for a given business problem

Business partnership

  • Establishes strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organization. Serves as a key point of contact for finance guidance to support budget management and decision-making processes
  • Challenges business partner’s perspective (where appropriate) to forecast income and expenses
  • Effectively communicates the story behind the numbers in terms business partners can understand
  • Generates multiple options to solve a problem

Management reporting

  • Discusses financial performance in terms of the financial implications and business activities
  • Spend tracking, reporting, and analytics
  • Prepares financial slides for leadership, audit committees, and BOD meetings

Experience:

  • Minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience in progressive financial analysis experience, including biotech or pharma experience particularly pre-clinical and clinical operations
  • A bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting . MBA preferred
  • Possesses a strong background in financial modeling, analytics, and scenario planning with good business acumen
  • Experienced and well-versed utilizing FP&A applications for data mining and transforming large data sets into a summarized form for clear and concise reporting
  • Experience with Adaptive Insights and ERP-driven data with budgeting and forecasting
  • Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment and integrate multiple points of view to make informed decisions
  • Outstanding communication skills and relationship-building abilities
  • Maintains flexibility to meet changing business needs
  • Quick learner and problem solver
  • Self-starter and motivator who can remain focused and on task with minimal direction

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