Job Description
Associate Director, FP&A
Direct Hire
Hybrid, 3 days on site in Burlington, MA
Must Haves :
- 7+ years of progressive FP&A experience
- 5+ years of commercial stage biotech experience (could be with clients while at a consulting/Big 4)
- Experience in ownership of GTN, channel mix management, and government pricing and reporting required
- Advanced Excel
Associate Director, FP&A
What You’ll Do:
Financial Planning/Decision Analysis:
- Lead the development of annual budgets and quarterly reforecasts including alignment of timelines and requirements across the organization
- Prepare scenario analyses and refine sales and GTN forecast based on latest estimates
- Support the development of the long-range plan, lead the strategic planning agenda
- Lead monthly sales profitability analysis and validation of gross to net assumptions
- Service as a focal point for integrating planning process development capturing business requirements from functional stakeholders converting them into business processes and system requirements
- Continuously identify and communicate risks and opportunities against the existing processes
- Serve as business partners to the commercial and supply chain team while providing decision driven insights to the senior management team
- Provide ad hoc decision analysis
Reporting:
- Manage and update 3-statement forecasting and ensure plausibility of financials and full alignment with accounting team
- Establish and continuously improve the management reporting pack and ensure pro-active alignment of reporting hierarchy with evolving organizational structure
- Coordinate and prepare the monthly closing deck and results summary
- Prepare other monthly / quarterly financial deliverables as needed
- Provide insightful variance analysis to business partners and HQ finance team
Operational Finance Support:
- Ownership of GTN and channel mix – review GTN monthly report and provide accruals for month-end close
- Collaborate cross functionally and develop comprehensive understanding of revenue and channel mix trends as well as utilizations
- Oversee government pricing and reporting function for compliance and risk management
- Support ad hoc monthly capital forecast process by facilitating analysis of variances to budget and tracking actual spend against approved projects
- Support validation of procurement savings achieved
- Manage the FP&A closing calendar in close alignment with accounting
- Ensure appropriate and structured record keeping of all management reporting and planning activities and meetings
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance with MBA, MSF, or additional relevant accounting certification (e.g., CPA, CFA) strongly preferred
- A combined experience of 7+ years in FP&A or accounting (Big 4 preferred) or consulting firms with 5+ years in commercial stage biotech, life science, or pharma
- Experience in ownership of GTN, channel mix management, and government pricing and reporting required
- Experience in accruals and 3-statement forecasting required
- Self-starter with a sense of urgency and a high degree of initiative and self-motivation delivering high quality output to tight deadlines and in a constantly changing and growing business environment
- Strong and confident communicator both in writing and verbally, who can concisely summarize issues and answer the “so what”
- Excellent Excel and Power Point skills for data visualization
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, extensive experience building integrated models and experience resolving complex business problems with well-structured analytics
- Experience with ERP systems, ideally SAP, Anaplan, Ariba, and Blackline
- A desire to be part of a high-growth transformational company
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