Associate Dir, Fin. Planning & Analysis
HireLifeScience
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Job summary
HireLifeScience seeks an Associate Director of IT Finance to guide technology investments and govern multi-million-dollar IT portfolios. You will bridge financial discipline with tech strategy, delivering ROIs, forecasts, and cost optimization in a global, hybrid environment.
The role emphasizes partnership with Value Team Leads, finance stakeholders, and senior leadership to drive value realization and high-impact programs.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business, information technology, or related discipline.
- MBA preferred.
- Strong analytical and strategic planning capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead IT budgeting, forecasts, and long-range plans aligned to business goals.
- Govern IT CAPEX/OPEX rules and depreciation schedules.
- Develop ROI/NPV business cases with Divisional Finance.
- Deliver data-driven insights to optimize IT spend.
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Job description
IT Finance is a full-service Financial Planning & Analysis function that guides our Technology organization in investing in value - creating capabilities to help our Company's save and improve lives.
This role supports the VP of our Research & Development division IT and their leadership team. Our Research & Development division IT is a global organization that partners with our Research & Development division business division by leveraging technology and data to reimagine how breakthrough biomedical research is translated into meaningful new therapies and vaccines that save and improve lives worldwide. Our Research & Development division IT is focused on:
- Clinical Development and Digital Solutions
- Digital Science and AI Realization
- Research and Development Sciences
- Investment Management and Value Realization
We are seeking a strategic Associate Director of IT Finance to serve as a key team player to our technology leadership team. In this role, you will bridge the gap between financial discipline and technology strategy, driving high-value investment decisions, governing our multi-million-dollar technology portfolio, and optimizing our financial processes.
- Serve as a trusted business partner to Value Team Leads and Investment Managers, supporting coordinated planning and execution of client priorities.
- Develop expense budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range plans that support business and organizational goals.
- Navigate complex IT accounting treatments, overseeing the governance of CAPEX/OPEX rules, and depreciation schedules for major tech milestones.
- Drive IT investment value by co-developing robust business cases with Divisional Finance (ROI/NPV) and facilitating trade-offs to allocate resources to high-impact programs.
- Govern corporate IT compliance deliverables, taking ownership of Quarterly tally processes and IT Center of Excellence (COE) requirements to ensure seamless corporate alignment.
- Direct the monthly and quarterly close process, ensuring high-accuracy variance analysis, trend reporting, and proactive corrective actions.
- Drive continuous improvement across IT financial processes, deploying modern tools and ad-hoc analysis to support organizational change initiatives.
- Deliver actionable, data-driven recommendations to senior leadership that optimize IT spend, benchmark technology costs, and improve overall organizational value.
- 5+ years of experience in finance, business operations, strategy, investment management, or a related field.
- Ability to lead large-scale transformations in ambiguous, fast-paced environments with multiple stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Ability to apply FE&A frameworks to define ROI and align on value capture and realization.
- Ability to assess budgets, cost optimization opportunities, and cost drivers to support business cases and investment decisions.
- Ability to guide interdisciplinary teams on financial concepts and their impact on value management.
- Ability to communicate financial and performance information across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to act as a strategic thought partner and trusted business advisor.
- Ability to work across matrixed, global teams to drive alignment.
- Strong communication and influencing skills to secure leadership and business buy-in.
- Experience in financial evaluation or value management.
- Ability to flex between strategic thinking and tactical execution.
- Ability to bring fresh perspectives to improve ways of working.
- Skilled in data analysis platforms, including Power BI.
- Required: Bachelor's degree in finance, business, information technology, or a related discipline.
- Preferred: MBA.
- Adaptability
- Adaptability
- Business Acumen
- Business Agility
- Business Planning
- Cash Management
- Collaborative Leadership
- Complex Analysis
- Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
- Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)
- Cross-Cultural Awareness
- Data Visualization
- Detail-Oriented
- Enterprise Leadership
- Financial Acumen
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Management
- Financial Modeling
- Financial Planning
- Headcount Planning
- Influencing Skills
- Planning Budgeting And Forecasting (PBF)
- Preparation of Financial Reports
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Alignment
Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities.
As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.--As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.- For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:
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We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively.
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The salary range for this role is $129,000.00 - $203,100.00
This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.
The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits.
- Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days.
We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance
Regular
No relocation
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10%
Hybrid
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