Senior Director, Finance Transformation

Job Description

General Summary:

The Senior Director, Finance Transformation is a key member of the Vertex Global Finance organization and will be leading transformational workstreams including projects aimed at improvement of Global Finance processes, implementation and enhancement of finance systems and support of enterprise reporting capabilities.  

Reporting to the VP, Global Process Excellence, Finance Systems and Reporting, this role is a key leader in ensuring that Vertex’s global finance teams can scale efficiently to meet the needs of an increasingly large and complex pipeline by optimizing global processes, implementing and enhancing finance systems and building new scalable global capabilities to enable efficient and effective enterprise planning and reporting.  An important aspect of this role is the ability to have influence without authority, and to be able to maintain an enterprise-wide view where global processes and solutions are most effective and efficient for Vertex.  In addition, this role leads a team of finance professionals to partner with the broad finance organization to understand and assess complex process, data and reporting gaps, make recommendations on new ways of working, and lead and/or facilitate projects to implement identified solutions.

Success in this role requires a deep understanding of Vertex’s business and strategy including a strong understanding of the drug development process, experience in designing and implementing complex global processes and finance systems, and an ability to lead and manage change.  The best candidate will be able to collaborate effectively within Finance and with other key cross-functional stakeholders and leaders to ensure strategic and operational alignment.  In addition to the Finance organization, collaboration and strong partnership with business teams including R&D, Manufacturing & Supply Chain, Commercial and the PPM organization is paramount to success in this role. 

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Strategizes with finance and business leaders to identify and prioritize global process, data and technology optimization opportunities to enable Vertex’s efficient growth through industry-leading cross-functional innovation and business partnering, and managing the roadmap of these priorities. 
• Partners with Finance leadership to develop a strategy for our Finance organization’s efficient scaling in the short term and ensuring team readiness for working in a world of rapidly advancing technology.
• Builds and manages a high-performing team that meets increasing needs and requirements across the business, helps drive the overall organization forward and has an inclusive atmosphere.
• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills to partner with senior leaders and execute on multiple projects and deliverables simultaneously.
• Supports VRTX growth by using data and technology platforms to enable operating efficiencies, growth and ability to scale with sustainable, compliant and risk balanced processes.
• Leads process, data and systems enhancement workstreams to help optimize the use of data driven insights to drive integrated enterprise decision making.
• Champions VRTX global financial data structures to ensure that we are organizing and governing data to enable effective performance management and decision support as Vertex grows in scale and complexity.
• Partners closely with Finance, PPM, HR, Accounting and DTE to ensure that Vertex is building integrated enterprise planning capabilities to enable short- and long-term decision making and resource allocation.
• Collaborates and communicates effectively with others, identifies opportunities where change management is needed and helps to develop plans of action to address the gaps.
• Helps to develop and coach global finance team members to encourage growth and new opportunities and maintaining an atmosphere of inclusivity across the team.
• Utilizes data analytics and metrics to identify trends, make recommendations and mitigate resourcing and financial risks.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance or Accounting.
• MBA and CPA a plus.
• Typically requires a number of years of relevant experience in a finance managerial role demonstrating strong technical and analytical skills and a track record of success working in a team-based environment or the equivalent combination of education and experience.  Must have a deep understanding of financial systems, expertise in analytics and presentation/visualization of information and a strategic vision of future ways of working for finance professionals.

Preferred Knowledge/Skills:

• A continuous improvement mindset, constantly interrogating the wa