Job Description
Title: Senior Financial Analyst
Location: Bedford, MA, Hybrid 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
Industry: $1B+ Global, Publicly Held Biotechnology/Medical Device Company
Required :
- BA Degree in finance
- Advanced with Excel for analysis, toggling, and scenarios
- 3+ years in Financial planning & analysis
- EPM and ERP system experience (large systems like sap or oracle)
Preferred :
- Experience supporting R&D strongly preferred
- Life science, biotech, or pharma industry experience
- MBA or CPA
- SAP or SAC experience
- Big 4 experience
- Public company experience
- Ariba
Job Description:
The Senior Financial Analyst will collaborate cross functionally with partners across R&D to provide clear analysis and financial decision support to our various stakeholders . The Sr. Financial Analyst will work cross functionally through financial modeling, budgeting and forecasting and accounting
Responsibilities and Functions:
- Liaise and partner with the Research & Development organization
- Roll up the sleeves attitude and strong attention to detail
- Collaborate to help create presentations for executives
- Develop and maintain complex financial models to support clinical trials and development decision-making
- Provides accurate and timely processing of month-end, quarter-end and year-end financial close requirements; Prepare expense accruals for Research & Development organization; Close collaboration with Accounting and Operational FP&A teams on month end close activities that impact R&D financials
- Collect and prepare comprehensive, accurate and timely financial analyses on actuals and KPIs, as well as comparisons against forecasts; Management of the annual budget, including monthly trend reporting, quarterly financial forecasts and effectively analyzing drivers behind monthly variances to budget/forecast and prior year
- Provides robust and relevant financial analysis and commentary to the R&D organization in department spending and project budgets with comparisons to historical trends and budget and forecasts; Compiles data from disparate sources and from various departments to identify and assess performance and underlying trends
- Develop and maintain a monthly and quarterly rolling forecasts for projects and P&L’s utilizing ERP system generated reports for R&D to be leveraged during monthly reviews, quarterly forecast and annual budget processes
- Prepare presentation materials with an emphasis on financial projections and their impact to the financial statements, and other relevant financial metrics as needed
- Provide actionable insight on performance against business unit KPI’s
- Support Finance & Accounting team’s facilitation of cross-functional implementation of new or improved processes/systems for all related financial systems critical to core organizational functions
- Perform ad-hoc analysis and projects
- Multi-task and prioritize projects.
- Develop and maintain relationships with various levels of personnel
Job Requirements:
- BA/BS degree in Finance
- 3 + years of experience in a FP&A/ strategic finance/corporate finance/ accounting role required
- Ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative, team environment with tight deadlines
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Solid presentation skills
- Technical expertise in finance, budgeting, and forecasting
- Knowledge of financial statement analysis (P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow) and reporting
- MBA, CFA and/or CPA certification preferred, not required.
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