Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

3 days ago

Waltham, United States The Planet Group Full time

Title: Director of Financial Planning & Analysis

Location: Waltham, MA, Hybrid – one day a week onsite

Industry: Publicly Held, Biopharmaceutical Company


Required:

  • Degree in accounting or finance
  • 7+ years experience in an R&D environment in pharmaceutical or biomanufacturing environment
  • experience doing FP&A for clinical trials
  • advanced excel
  • comfortable working as a one-person department
  • professional communication - will work cross functionally with department heads and executive team


Preferred:

  • Masters in accounting or finance
  • commercial experience
  • experience with government contracts
  • Experience using Oracle PBCS or Hyperion


Job Description:

This position will primarily support several members of the Executive Leadership Team and department heads. This individual will also, from time to time, provide support to several members of the Board of Directors. The ideal candidate is a professional communicator and has excellent follow-up and follow-through capabilities.


The ideal candidate will provide exceptional support by skillfully leveraging a diverse set of abilities with professionalism, sound judgment, and discretion. You’ll excel at anticipating the needs of executives, ensuring their time is managed effectively and seamlessly.

In this dynamic, fast-paced environment, you’ll operate independently, pay attention to detail, and adapt to changing priorities. Your proactive approach will enable you to connect problems with solutions efficiently, demonstrating flexibility as priorities shift and exercising independent judgment to execute tasks flawlessly.


Responsibilities:

This position is responsible for playing a critical role leading the FP&A function, including maintaining business partnerships across the organization, supporting internal initiatives, providing valuable insight to leadership, and helping drive the growth and success of the company. This person will also be a strategic partner in framing, evaluating, and driving decision making to maximize value creation. The role will lead the annual budget process, quarterly and ad hoc forecast updates, and long-range financial planning and valuation activities; in addition, the ideal candidate will foster and maintain an environment of collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement.


Responsibilities:

  • Lead the company's financial planning process to support budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and financial modeling and analysis
  • Develop appropriate processes, methodologies, variables, and modeling techniques to support key business decisions
  • Understand key business drivers to provide operational insights and strategic financial support
  • Act as business partner across the company; work collaboratively and cross functionally with all levels of management to deliver meaningful and accurate financial information
  • Be a trusted advisor to the CFO and VP, Corporate Controller; develop strong working relationships with all members of the finance and leadership team
  • Play an integral role in the month-end / quarter-end / year-end close and flux review processes; create, develop and present budget vs. actual results to management
  • Partner with the broader organization to drive process and systematic improvements across the company
  • Collaborate closely with the Marketing team to forecast net product prices, leveraging scenario planning to assess the impact of strategic pricing decisions on profitability and market positioning
  • Assist with special projects as needed, providing financial assessments and guidance for strategic projects and business cases


Job Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s or master's degree. Degree in accounting or finance preferred
  • At least 7+ years experience in a pharmaceutical or biotechnology environment, including working knowledge of drug development process
  • Very strong analytical and financial modeling skills with strong financial system, graphic reporting and data visualization tools, and data analytic capabilities
  • Mastery of utilizing Excel to analyze complex strategic options and distill information for business leaders to support key decisions
  • Excellent communication and relationship building skills. Demonstrated strength in presenting and communicating financial information
  • A "hand's on" business partner attitude, who enjoys challenges and thrives in a dynamic, start-up environment and building cross-functional relationships.
  • Deeply committed to accuracy and pride in attention to detail and creative approach to problem-solving
  • Self-starter with the demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced atmosphere with minimal supervision
  • Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at one time
  • Ideal candidate will have R&D as well as commercial experience and experience with government contracts

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