Executive Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description

Our Finance team brings together our financial perspectives into our overall strategic and tactical decision making. We use state-of-the-art techniques for financial analysis, planning, accounting, reporting and performance evaluation. This allows the organization to continue advancing medical innovation and improve lives.  

The Executive Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) will be a key financial and strategic business partner supporting assigned divisional client organization in our Manufacturing and Research and Development Divisions.  The incumbent will lead a team of finance professionals, responsible for forecasting and analytics, supporting both internal and external stakeholders, overseeing monthly close activities, and tracking of actuals. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide financial and strategic support to client organization

• Serve as part of the leadership team of both client and divisional finance organization

• Partner on strategic as well as tactical fronts to manage the progression of the pipeline with due financial considerations

• Support the development of robust and realistic financial plans and help articulate those plans in clear and concise manner to the various stakeholders

• Provide financial support for the formulation and evaluation of capital investment proposals and to help prepare and present the business cases to the various governance bodies

• Develop and maintain strong relationship and partnership with counterparts across the enterprise to support integrated program views

• Collaborate seamlessly with various finance and business stakeholders to help advance business goals

• Have an enterprise mind-set and be able to articulate fully integrated costs and investment considerations and potential trade-offs

• Provide financial support to pipeline and supply chain and capacity decision making, with the knowledge of key drivers to relevant governance committees

• Analyze and report actual financial results and to discuss adjustments needed to the projected spend to stay aligned with the approved financial plans

• Understand operational productivity drivers of the business and to develop/ maintain financial metrics to measure actual performance vs. what’s expected

• Oversee various critical financial processes and to take proactive steps to align with the evolving business needs and ensure that the processes run efficiently and effectively

• Ensure full compliance with the accounting requirements and maintain sound financial internal control environment

• Lead and/or to participate in various special initiatives/ projects

• Lead a team of talented professionals and provide guidance and leadership to the team on various business support aspects

• Help team members realize their full career aspirations and to proactively seek ways to attract new talent

Education:

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance/Accounting, Science, or Engineering

• Preferred: MBA or other Masters/PhD in Business, Finance, Science, or Engineering

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 15 years of operations or Finance experience

• Effective with Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to develop business operations models

• Strong organizational and time management skills

• Excellent attention to detail to ensure accurate and on-time deliverables

• Strong business and financial acumen

• Demonstrated effectiveness working with teams, including Third Parties

• Proactive approach to problem solving, including solutions at times may be “outside of the box”

• Demonstrated ability to influence, build and maintain team, client and peer relationships

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills

• Passion and intellectual curiosity with respect to healthcare industry

• Experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry  

• Understanding of the drug discovery and development process and/or vaccine and pharmaceutical manufacturing

• Sufficient knowledge of our company's pipeline/ product line

• Strong computer skills especially working with SAP, BPC, Power BI, and MS Excel

Required Skills:

Capital Budgeting, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Decision Making, Detail-Oriented, Ethical Compliance, Executive Presence, Financial Analysis, Management Controls