Associate Director, Business Development & Alliance Management Finance

BeOne continues to grow at a rapid pace with challenging and exciting opportunities for experienced professionals. When considering candidates, we look for scientific and business professionals who are highly motivated, collaborative, and most importantly, share our passionate interest in fighting cancer.

General description:

The Associate Director, Business Development & Alliance Management Finance role will partner with business development, alliance management, and the broader finance organization to provide analytical support that drives decision making, reporting, and forecasting. The role will support the evaluation of opportunities in M&A, licensing/partnering and equity investments, in addition to supporting FP&A reporting/forecasting and helping build and maintain financial processes for BeOne’s investment portfolio. The analytics and insights that you provide will help drive decision making for senior leadership.

Essential Functions of the job:

Business development transaction support: Partner with business development to evaluate external opportunities, conduct due diligence and financial modelling for evaluating the business/investment case. Transactions will include evaluation of M&A, licensing/partnerships, and equity investments. Serve as the finance lead for BD transactions and be responsible for engaging the broader finance organization in executing transactions. Coordinate payment processes for executed transactions and support post-deal activities.

Alliance management support and equity portfolio management: Track and forecast expected milestones under BeOne’s existing collaborations and work with treasury and accounting functions to ensure payments are accrued and processed on time. Track and manage reporting on our portfolio of external early-stage equity investments.

BeOne Superhighway: Establish financial processes to support 1) investment analysis for BeOne’s corporate venture activities, 2) evaluate potential partnerships for BeOne’s Global Development Superhighway, and 3) ongoing operational support.

FP&A support: Support corporate FP&A processes for quarterly reporting, forecasting and long-range financial planning. Responsibility for business development & alliance management forecasting and reporting.

Benchmarking and intelligence: Provide benchmarking support for FP&A, investor relations or business development transactions as needed.

Process improvement: Support process improvement and documentation work to improve efficiency and alignment within the finance organization and with business partners.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in investment banking, big 4 transaction advisory, corporate finance, corporate development or consulting, with a focus on the pharmaceutical/biotech industry

• Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree in Finance/Accounting, Economics, or related field

• Strong excel and financial modelling skills, including but not limited to discounted cash flow valuation, 3-statement financial models, venture capital investment valuation, transaction and financing comps

• Experience with transactional legal documents such as term sheets, license agreements, asset/share purchase agreements, credit agreements and corporate equity investment documents

• Strong computer software skills (Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and familiarity with financial/pharmaceutical databases such as CapitalIQ, Biomedtracker/Evaluate

• Excellent analytical and critical-thinking: employs a critical eye to challenge inputs and assumptions, comfortable with ambiguity and can act without having the complete picture

• Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, including ability to synthesize data and deliver clear financial analyses to business partners and executives

• Proven ability to execute and perform autonomously in a fast-paced environment

• Fluent in written and verbal English

Global Competencies

When we exhibit our values of Patients First, Driving Excellence, Bold Ingenuity and Collaborative Spirit, through our twelve global competencies below, we help get more affordable medicines to more patients around the world.

• Fosters Teamwork
• Provides and Solicits Honest and Actionable Feedback
• Self-Awareness
• Acts Inclusively
• Demonstrates Initiative
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Continuous Learning
• Embraces Change
• Results-Oriented
• Analytical Thinking/Data Analysis
• Financial Excellence
• Communic