Senior Cost Accountant
STULZ USA
ERP
Director, Financial Planning and Analysis – R&D
Scholar Rock
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Serve as the primary finance partner for R&D leadership, Program Management, Clinical Development, Research and Regulatory
- Support for all FP&A activities including budgeting/forecasting, long-range planning, scenario modeling and financial analysis for strategic initiatives
- Coordinate with accounting on month-end and quarterly close tasks, procure-to-pay processes, preparation of quarterly schedules, and support of external reporting and related audit inquiries
- Develop timely analysis of monthly budget-to-actuals including variance analyses, generation and reporting of results
- Strive for continuous improvement of FP&A processes, with the goal of improving efficiency while maintaining flexibility to adapt to future business needs
- Develop and deliver training initiatives and provide support for change management activities to ensure adoption of new FP&A tools, systems and mindsets across the organization
- Support ad-hoc strategic initiatives including business development analyses, partner support, portfolio prioritization, and financing strategies
- Reporting to the Sr. Director, FP&A and supporting R&D and pipeline programs; act as strategic partner in framing, evaluating, and driving decision making to maximize value creation
- Help build cross-functional FP&A capability at a growing, multi-product candidate biotechnology company
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of progressive finance experience in a pharmaceutical or biotechnology environment
- Advanced degree in science and/or business preferred
- Prior experience supporting R&D functions and/or programs in a cross-functional environment
- Excellent presentation skills to deliver information effectively across all levels of the organization
- Strong partnering and communication skills with the ability to distill financial information into a concise and actionable message
- Proficiency with Excel in order to conduct complex analysis that will support key decisions
- Knowledge of fundamental accounting principles
- Understanding of the drug development process, from early research through product launch
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at one time
- Experience with Adaptive Insights and/or SAP considered an asset
