Senior Director, Finance Portfolio and Strategic Operations

The Role:

Reporting to the Head of Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis and Treasury, this role will serve as a strategic advisor to the Finance Leadership Team, and will sit at the intersection of Finance strategy, portfolio development, and delivery, with broad exposure across the function and interdependent business areas.  The role will be responsible for organizing and overseeing the Finance Portfolio of ongoing programs and special initiatives, and help develop best-in-class practices in how we deliver priorities across the business and lead critical financial analysis.

This role will partner across finance, digital, and HR to gather a holistic view of team priorities, informing a comprehensive portfolio of work spanning integrated programs and business priorities. Ultimate success of this individual will be proven by a planful and integrated Portfolio roadmap, and successful delivery and adoption of those initiatives broadly.

We work collaboratively as a team, we are relentless in the pursuit of excellence, we curiously will boldly challenge the status quo if we can provide a better way, and we aim to strike a balance between innovation, process efficiency, effectiveness, and controls and compliance. We are committed to delivering accurate, timely, and insightful information with a high level of customer service, while striving to continuously improve our processes to help scale our operations to support future growth. 

Here’s What You’ll Do:

• Serve as the Portfolio and Operations liaison for Finance Leadership and key business stakeholders, providing collaborative guidance and advice on program management strategies and frameworks to drive the successful completion of portfolio priorities

• Develop and implement an innovative Finance Portfolio strategy and program management framework (think where we are, where we want to go, and operational roadmaps and innovation needed to get there)

• Develop and maintain integrated Portfolio and priorities roadmap

• Support portfolio deliverables and processes to ensure accuracy, visibility, alignment, and optimization of Finance’s strategic financial investment as a function

• Develop the Portfolio Management processes, proper cadence, and channels (bi-weekly status reports, roadmaps, governance), and support through formatting dashboards and ensuring accuracy and visual consistency across all Portfolio channels

• Lead critical financial analyses which are time-sensitive

• Partner across the Finance team and key business stakeholders to help inform and guide strategic programs, projects, and other initiatives

• Manage the full project lifecycle of the program portfolio and projects, ensuring cross-functional teams work collaboratively and effectively

• Design and support scalable infrastructure (processes, tools and templates) to enable best-in-class end-to-end project delivery

• Help define initiative value proposition, scope, work plan, resource needs, timeline, and budget,

• Identify risk mitigation and success criteria/measurement

• Help to communicate project status, milestone progress/achievement, and risks and issues to team leadership

• Partner with the broader team, HR and Digital to drive proactive and ad hoc awareness, measurement and evolution of Finance readiness related to the portfolio programs

• Partner with key Program Owners and Subject Matter Experts across Moderna to ensure audiences receive the right level of information in a timely matter in support of Finance’s strategic portfolio, programs, and other initiatives

• Drive and maintain consistency across the Portfolio in terms of execution, status tracking, change management and communication activities

• Measure and track program effectiveness through qualitative and quantitative methods

• Develop a keen understanding of various cross-functional audiences and their needs, common interdependencies

• Conduct regular checkpoints with key partners

• Partner with the Finance leadership team, HR, Digital and other key business stakeholders to gather insights/interdependencies informing portfolio management and execution

• This role is based in our new LEED-certified HQ in Cambridge, MA and is expected to be in office 70% of the time with flexibility to work from home up to 30%.

Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table:

Basic Requirements:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent is required in a finance-related area

• 10+ years of relevant experience in project/program management

• Finance