Financial Planning & Analysis Senior Manager

Vertex Pharmaceuticals • Boston, MA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager, DST Finance is a key member of Vertex's Disease Strategy Finance Team, providing financial and strategic insights to inform Disease Strategy Teams (“DSTs”) on key decisions. This role will work closely with the Senior Director, DST Finance to lead standardization in financial reporting and analytics across DSTs as well as develop cross-Disease Area financial analyses. The Senior Manager will play a critical role in ensuring financial modeling, forecasting, and scenario-based valuation integrate with enterprise-wide financial planning processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business, Economics or Accounting required.
• 8+ years of experience in FP&A, Strategy, or Analytics roles
• Deep understanding of, and demonstrated curiosity to learn, biopharmaceutical drug discovery, development, manufacturing, regulation, and commercialization.
• Expert analytical and financial modeling skills to evaluate a broad range of financial questions – especially valuation and strategic planning.
• Ability to work independently to answer business questions or create ad-hoc reporting that may be needed.
• Expertise with Excel and strong PowerPoint skills; experience with Hyperion or other multidimensional database; experience with business intelligence and visualization tools a plus.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and a proven ability to present complex financial insights to senior stakeholders.
• “Internal consultant mindset” with ability to solve problems through pragmatic, creative approaches and leadership to implement ideas through to successful conclusion.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and an eagerness to collaborate with colleagues (within or outside of finance) in sharing insights and learnings and partnering to ensure timely execution of project plans.
• Possesses a continuous improvement mindset, with flexibility and ability to adapt to change.

Nice To Haves

• MBA and/or other advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead standardization of DST Finance processes to ensure consistent level of rigor, balance, and transparency for businesses cases, stage-gate reviews, and investment proposals.
• Lead development and maintenance of reporting tools to communicate financial impact of business cases and integration into regular financial processes.
• Collaborate with DST Finance leads to develop and maintain disease area-, asset-, and indication-specific financial models.
• Represent DST Finance across the organization with specific focus on enterprise financial processes, including planner meetings for Budget, Long-Range Plan, and Forecasts.
• Partner with Global Financial Systems team to develop self-service reporting and tools for high-frequency deliverables.
• Proactively identify and drive opportunities for process improvement that enhanced decision-making support for Disease Strategy Teams.
• Represents DST Finance as a center of excellence for all modeling, valuation and ad hoc analysis used for a wide range of decisions, including presentations at Executive Committee level meetings.
• Support integration of external innovation into DST Finance processes and workflows.
• Ad-hoc support for Business Development modeling, valuation, and forecasting.

Benefits

• annual bonus
• annual equity awards
• medical, dental and vision benefits
• generous paid time off (including a week-long company shutdown in the Summer and the Winter)
• educational assistance programs including student loan repayment
• a generous commuting subsidy
• matching charitable donations
• 401(k)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level