Financial Planning & Analysis Associate Director

Vertex Inc.•Boston, MA

5d•$156,000 - $234,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Director, FP&A is a leader in Vertex's finance business partnering organization, providing financial direction and strategic insight to the key functional leaders. This role will help define and deliver against short term and long term goals, including identification of key value drivers and Business KPIs and provide strategic decision support, influencing decisions and supporting strategic pricing proposals that preserve value and mitigate risks.

Requirements

Experience in pharmaceutical industry, business partnering with an executive team.
Strong skills demonstrated in MS Office and financial software applications, including Hyperion.
Strong communication, influencing and interpersonal skills necessary for daily interaction with senior management, as well as business partners and peers within Finance.
Ability to lead and drive change in a developing business environment, coordinating processes involving large numbers of people, complex systems, and tight deadlines across multiple time zones.
Capability to pro-actively participate in managing within a cross-cultural matrix organization.
Strong analytical and financial skills to evaluate a broad range of financial questions—especially portfolio analysis, valuation, ROI/ROIC, and complex business questions.
Capacity to understand the pharmaceutical industry to address a broad range of challenges and business issues globally across all functions with the ability to make and facilitate quick decisions.
Proven leadership
Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting or an equivalent qualification.
Typically requires 8 years experience in a finance managerial role demonstrating strong technical and analytical skills and a track record of success working in a team-based environment or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
A track record of success working in a team-based environment.

Responsibilities

Provide financial direction and strategic insight to the functional leaders.
Support ongoing pricing proposals in partnership with market access, including development of key scenarios, and identify key risks/uncertainties and plans for potential mitigation.
Support quarterly revenue forecasts to provide meaningful forward-looking direction, partnering with market access analytics to ensure accuracy of inputs, understand trends and drive insights.
Review weekly sales performance with a focus on understanding the key drivers of short-term performance.
Coordinate with Commercial Insights and Analytics team to understand evolving trends and drive insights.
Partner with trade and Gross-to-Net Forecasting to understand inventory dynamics and support ongoing distribution strategy proposals.
Evolve performance tracking to elevate key assumptions and metrics for tracking actuals, budget, and forecasts.
Partner within sample program coordinator and analytics team to optimize impact of the sample program and ensure integrated budgeting process.
Ensuring the financial integrity and robust corporate governance and compliance of all financial aspects for areas of responsibility.