Director 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 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 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.
30+ days ago