Associate Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

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The Associate Director, Financial Planning & Analysis is a strategic and highly visible role reporting directly to the Senior Vice President, Head of Finance & Principal Financial Officer. This position partners with key leaders across Research, Development, Regulatory Affairs, Technical Development and Manufacturing, and G&A, as well as the broader Leadership Team, to support planning, forecasting, and performance analysis. It ensures a company wide consistent approach to strategic analysis and modeling to enable decision support and optimize corporate development opportunities, and works closely with the Head of Business Development.

• Partner with functional areas to support budget and forecast submissions.
• Develop and update the company’s long-range plan (LRP), including projected future needs for capital, headcount, facilities and other infrastructure.
• Develop clear, insightful financial commentaries for leadership reviews.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly business review presentations for senior leadership.
• Analyze financial performance and variances across functional areas.
• Support ad hoc analysis and special projects for executive stakeholders.
• Establish collaborative, effective, and trusting relationships across key internal functions including Clinical, R&D, Legal, Manufacturing, Program Management, People, and Business Development to ensure the free flow of information and ideas.
• Design, manage and maintain advanced valuation and portfolio models, analytical tools, methodologies, and software to support strategic corporate and R&D investment decisions related to portfolio management, and business development/licensing/M&A. These valuations will support the broader Leadership Team and Board of Directors decision making and will be used by external audiences including the investment community, auditors, and potential collaboration partners.

• Required:
  
  A minimum of 10 years of relevant FP&A experience.
• Required:
  
  Excellent financial modeling skills and extensive experience conducting quantitative and qualitative financial analysis.
• Required:
  
  Experience with the creation and maintenance of forecasting and modeling tools and applications (e.g., Adaptive).
• Required:
  
  Proficient in Excel (including programming “if/and” statements, financial formulas, pivot tables), and PowerPoint (able to draft logical, concise presentations with good formatting and storyboarding).
• Required:
  
  Strong communication/presentation skills with a track record of presenting complex financial analyses to executives/senior management with precision and concision.
• Required:
  
  Familiarity with GAAP and accounting principles and practices.
• Required:
  
  Familiarity and comfort operating in a start-up/entrepreneurial environment, making the most of bandwidth and resources in a fast paced workplace.
• Preferred:
  Experience with deal modeling and directly supporting business development.

• A strong interest in science and medicine and a passion for learning new scientific concepts as appropriate to complete the responsibilities of the role.
• Ability to prioritize multiple competing tasks/responsibilities and rapidly pivot between tasks based on company needs.
• Ability to be a strong thought-partner to cross-functional colleagues.
• Ability to influence management, de-escalate and resolve conflict, manage politics, and get things done quickly and effectively.
• Ability to create structure and definition in situations that are uncertain or ambiguous.
• Collaborates well with team members, building trust and respect through all interactions.
• Eagerness to learn new skills and be comfortable working on things for the first time, broadening capabilities over time.

• MBA or CPA preferred