Associate Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis

Scorpion Therapeutics; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical company is looking for a seasoned finance professional to own the financial planning process and provide critical insights for strategic decision-making. This role involves significant interaction with senior management, managing financial operations, and driving the company's financial strategy forward. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience in financial management and a strong analytical background, coupled with the ability to foster relationships across diverse teams.

Benefits

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in financial planning and analysis, ideally in a biopharmaceutical setting.
• Strong track record of providing insights to senior leadership.
• Ability to lead cross-departmental initiatives effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning process including budgeting and forecasting across the enterprise.
• Provide financial insights to executive management for strategic decision-making.
• Oversee and refine accounting operations and financial reporting.

Skills

Financial planning

Analytical skills

Leadership

Strategic decision-making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting

MBA or equivalent preferred

Tools

Financial modeling tools

Reporting software

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Overview

Incyte is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel medicines to meet serious unmet medical needs in oncology and inflammation and autoimmunity. Incyte is committed to the rigorous pursuit of research and development excellence to improve the lives of patients, make a difference in health care, and build sustainable value.

The Company strives to discover and develop first-in-class and best-in-class medicines-advancing a diverse portfolio of large and small molecules.

Summary

Plays an ownership role in financial planning, management reporting and financial analytics efforts across the company including consolidation of plans and forecasts for an enterprise outlook. Provides senior and executive management with financial reporting and analysis to be used in strategic and tactical decision-making. Gathers business performance data, analyzes and compares it to previous periods, and develops recommendations for improvements in revenue growth or resource allocation. Works with various members of the operational and finance executive teams, the Board of Directors and, potentially, the investment community.

Primary Functions & Essential Responsibilities

• Own the planning (budget and forecast) process across the enterprise including the analysis and associated recommendations.
• Apply financial expertise to business operations; position the company competitively in the market.
• Direct accounting operations, overseeing all transactions related to general ledger, receivables, payables, payroll and financial reporting.
• Responsible for processing the financial activities that maximize profits for an organization.
• Participate in, lead or sponsor cross-departmental initiatives.
• Develop a high-performing FP&A organization by serving as a trusted advisor to the CFO and business units, sought out for insight, and attracting and developing talent for the organization.
• Participate in development of the company's plans and programs, linking longer-term strategy to the company's operational plans and cascading goals; provide strategic financial input and leadership on decision-making.
• Drive the financial planning process at the business unit and executive level, inclusive of kickoff meetings, deadlines, assumptions, data format/loads, as it applies to budgets, re-forecasts, capital planning and long-term plans.
• Build a composite view of the company including profit and loss, cash flow and balance sheet impacts; recommend business or financial action as needed.
• Ensure the integrity of the planning process: forecasts are frequent, honest appraisals of expected performance; assumptions and calculations are standardized; source-data confusion is eliminated; collaboration, coordination and communication across the enterprise are the norm.
• Monitor the effectiveness of the planning process itself.
• Ensure timely and accurate business/financial reports and plans; share them with all business units to increase financial transparency in management reporting and business line performance.
• Oversee error-free, relevant reporting including data preparation, report creation and quality control; strive to deliver insight, consistent data, and effective visualizations; reports include financial and operating information.
• Monitor operational statistics; report trends, variances and issues; take appropriate action including proactively notifying business or financial partners/superiors.
• Responsible for inventory of reports that delivers the right information to the right person at the right time; this may include maintenance of existing, development of new and retirement of outdated reports and key metrics.
• Formulate questions and analyses for the team to research, creating learning opportunities.
• Monitor and report on market changes including macroeconomics and peers/competitors.
• Continuously re-assess the department's skills, competencies and abilities to meet the company's business needs and drive results through standardization.
• Attract talent by making FP&A a desired career position, drawing talent in and sending talent out to the business; establish FP&A's brand for excellence.
• Actively upgrades the business unit through professional development, coaching, feedback, mentoring and creating career paths for team members.
• Demonstrate effective leadership, supervising and interpersonal skills to instruct or assign work to others, motivate and coach, and evaluate work performance; establish trust and inspire others.
• Forecast financial earnings based on accounting policies.
• Coordinates the inter-relationship between the FP&A forecast and treasury cash forecast.
• Reconcile the financial forecast with financing plan to ensure adequate capital is available to meet operational and capital spending requirements and forecast out covenant, regulatory and other capital commitments.
• Coordinate tax schedules, returns and information.

Disclaimer:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications. Management reserves the right to change or modify such duties as required.

Incyte Corporation is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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