Why join us?
LifeMine is a biopharmaceutical company pioneering Top-Down Drug Discovery™, a bold new approach that leverages evolutionary insights from fungi to unearth next-generation precision medicines. Through our data-immersive and technologically expansive discovery engine, we are uniquely positioned to bring mechanistically and structurally novel precision medicines to patients in urgent need of breakthrough disease intervention. LifeMine’s initial pipeline programs are focused in organ transplantation and antifungals. The Company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with offices in Gloucester, MA and Basel, Switzerland.
What's the opportunity?
The Associate Director/Director FP&A and Business Analytics will serve as a key member of the Finance and Accounting organization. This role will be responsible for managing the development of financial reporting including budgets, forecasts, variance analyses, and other ad-hoc analyses, but also for supporting the Research and Development team in reporting and business analytics. This role will also support periodic financial close activities and financial system platform integrations. The role will report to the SVP of Finance and work closely with the Controller and other members of the G&A group.
Responsibilities
- Act as strategic global finance business partner to the R&D departments, providing financial support to leaders to plan expenses, revenue and ensure foundation for sound financial decisions
- Drive and deliver the annual budget, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning process for all LifeMine functions
- Provide comprehensive internal financial reporting and analytics against budgets/forecasts and works with business partners on KPIs and actionable trend analyses.
- Builds analytics and transparent reporting to drive forecast accuracy
- Prepare and present monthly performance reports to management
- Works closely with leaders and project managers to support planning and reporting for collaborations and/or business development agreements
- Provide Ad-Hoc Reporting and Analysis with business insights and recommendations
- Monitor and improve financial processes
- Collaborate closely with the accounting and finance group
- Analyze variances of revenues, profitability, and costs as well as deep dives as needed
- Assist with periodic financial close and reporting activities
- Integrate and analyze data and information across all LifeMine financial platforms
- Identify and execute on opportunities to improve efficiency and scalability of all accounting cycles (people, process, systems, and reporting)
- Partner closely with internal stakeholders to ensure strategic projects and business cases are well informed and linked to measurable outcomes
What you will need to be successful
- Bachelor's Degree required; preferred Area of Study: Finance/Accounting, CPA, CMA or other financial certification
- 8+ years of financial planning & analysis and accounting experience, with at least 4 years’ experience within Life sciences / Biotechnology preferred
- Knowledge of accounting statements, consolidations and financial reporting
- Demonstrated experience in the support of complex business models or expanding organizations
- Excellent analytic skills; highly proficient in Excel with strong computer skills
- Ability to support strategic and tactical activities
- Proven ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and see projects through to conclusion in a fast-paced environment
- Highly collaborative with strong business partnership, communication and influencing skills
- Experience with ERP/ financial planning systems required. NetSuite OneWorld, Planful, Quickbook Time and system implementations and conversions a plus.
Our Culture DNA
Our success at LifeMine is rooted in our unique Culture DNA, shaping how we innovate, collaborate, and achieve our mission. These values drive us forward, pushing the boundaries of science and delivering transformative medicines.
Collective Genius
We thrive on our ability to think and act as force multipliers for each other, and our collective strength lies in our collaborative spirit and the unique talents of our diverse team. Together, we push the boundaries of science and technology to mine groundbreaking medicines.
Inquisitive Expeditioners
We are pioneers at heart, driven by relentless curiosity to explore uncharted territories in drug discovery, leveraging evolutionary insights from fungi to lead the journey of innovation.
Inspired Learners
We embody a culture of perpetual growth and curiosity, where learning, teaching each other, and innovation intersect. This commitment to exploration and education ensures we remain at the forefront of delivering sophisticated, precision medicines.
Medicine Miners
Mining for high-impact medicines is fundamental to our identity. Through our data-immersive and technologically expansive discovery engine, we bring sophisticated medicines to patients in urgent need. We’re doing more than finding cures; we’re securing a healthier future for humankind.
Top Skills
What We Do
LifeMine Therapeutics is reinventing drug discovery by mining genetically-encoded small molecules (GEMs) from the biosphere. Through its proprietary, evolutionarily-derived genomic drug discovery platform, LifeMine aims to bring unparalleled speed, predictability and scalability to small molecule drug discovery. LifeMine has discovered, in genomic space, hundreds of potentially high-impact drug candidates relevant to targets across all major disease areas, and has an initial focus on advancing highly impactful precision medicines in oncology and immune modulation.
The Company was founded in 2017 by renowned entrepreneur/scientists Gregory Verdine, Ph.D., and Richard Klausner, M.D., and entrepreneur/company-builder WeiQing Zhou.
