Job Description
General Summary:
The Associate Director, FP&A is a leader in Vertex's Finance organization, providing direction, coordination, and insight to key enterprise-wide financial planning processes. This role will define and deliver the annual Long Range Planning process, in addition to other critical Strategic Finance, Disease Strategy, and Business Development initiatives. This individual will provide strategic decision support and enterprise scenario analysis, while influencing decisions and identifying risks and opportunities on a global basis.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Drives the enterprise-wide annual Long Range Plan process and deliverables, focused on coordination across many stakeholders, systems, and tight deadlines.
- Pro-actively coordinates across Finance & Accounting, Program Management, R&D, Commercial and G&A Functions to ensure there is clear ownership and management of the deliverables from those teams, and that outputs are delivered seamlessly.
- Distills complex financial analysis into concise insights to be messaged at the Executive level; providing meaningful direction.
- Owner of the Consolidated LRP Model to perform portfolio analysis, valuation, ROI/ROIC, and complex business questions, proactively define and run key scenarios, highlighting risks/uncertainties and plans for potential mitigation.
- Ensures the financial integrity and robust corporate governance and compliance of all financial aspects for areas of responsibility.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Experience in pharmaceutical industry, business partnering with an executive team.
- Strong skills demonstrated in MS Office and financial software applications, including Hyperion.
- Strong communication, influencing and interpersonal skills necessary for daily interaction with senior management, as well as business partners and peers within Finance.
- Ability to lead and drive change in a developing business environment, coordinating processes involving large numbers of people, complex systems, and tight deadlines across multiple time zones.
- Capability to pro-actively participate in managing within a cross-cultural matrix organization.
- Strong analytical and financial skills to evaluate a broad range of financial questions—especially portfolio analysis, valuation, ROI/ROIC, and complex business questions.
- Capacity to understand the pharmaceutical industry to address a broad range of challenges and business issues globally across all functions with the ability to make and facilitate quick decisions.
- Proven leadership expertise to manage and develop a high performing group of business partners.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting or an equivalent qualification.
- Typically requires 10+ years experience in a finance managerial role demonstrating strong technical and analytical skills or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
- A track record of success working in a team-based environment.
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Flex Designation:
Hybrid-Eligible Or On-Site Eligible
Flex Eligibility Status:
In this Hybrid-Eligible role, you can choose to be designated as:
1. Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week; or select
2. On-Site: work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.
Note: The Flex status for this position is subject to Vertex’s Policy on Flex @ Vertex Program and may be changed at any time.
Company Information
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation.
Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.
Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the recruiter or hiring manager, or contact Talent Acquisition at [email protected]
What We Do
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases.
We discovered and developed the first medicines to treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF), a rare, life-threatening genetic disease. In addition to clinical development programs in CF, Vertex has more than a dozen ongoing research programs focused on the underlying mechanisms of other serious diseases.
Founded in 1989 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, our corporate headquarters is now located in Boston’s Innovation District, and our international headquarters is in London, United Kingdom. We currently employ approximately 3,500 people in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America with nearly two-thirds of our staff dedicated to research and development.
Vertex is consistently recognized as one of the industry’s top places to work by Science Magazine, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal and the San Diego Business Journal. Our research and medicines have also received esteemed recognitions, including the Robert J. Beall Therapeutics Development Award, the French Prix Galien and the British Pharmacological Society awards.
