Director of Financial Planning & Analysis

Director of Financial Planning & Analysis needs 8 – 12 (w/o Master’s) or 6 – 8 years (with Master’s) years of relevant experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industry

Director of Financial Planning & Analysis requires:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting

• FP&A and Financial Reporting experience

• Advanced expertise in Hyperion, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint

• Advanced experience in Oracle ERP

• Minimum 8 – 12 (w/o Master’s) or 6 – 8 years (with Master’s) years of relevant experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industry

• Experience using SAP and Oracle is a plus.

• Experience/exposure to cost accounting is a plus

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Appetite to learn about the business areas supported and how the financials tie into the strategy.

• Ability to work within a team, sharing ideas for best practices and process improvements.

• Ability to present results to multiple levels of the Finance organizations in a clear and concise manner, including VP of FP&A Executive Leadership, and corporate partners.

• Strong problem-solving skills, especially related to financial system integration.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills, able to establish strong rapport and partnerships at all levels of the organization.

• Ability to work independently under general guidance, take initiative and complete tasks to deadlines.

• Ability to spot and deliver on improvements.

Director of Financial Planning & Analysis duties:

• Serve as financial advisor to the VPs in Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, CMC, and CPC, as it relates to Operating Expense Management.

• Lead key analytics including CPC facility business support, overhead production allocations, etc.

• Lead R&D finance collaboration to support reporting and consolidation of key results.

• Own overhead product allocations.

• Build Collaborative working relationships with partners in financial operations, costing, FP&A, R&D, and Accounting.

• Develop deep understanding of strategy for supported departments and how those strategies are linked to our financial plans; understand the story behind the numbers.

• Complete and submit timely forecasts, annual budgets, and long-range plans for operating expenses and headcount.

• Drive month/quarter/year-end accrual and PO cleanup process in collaboration with the business and accounting teams.

• Build Operating Expense summaries and present commentary on key variances. Support projects including process/system standardization, enabling LRP modeling, consolidated reporting, analytics, etc.