Director, R&D Finance

BeiGene•Cambridge, MA

1d•Remote

About The Position

BeOne Medicines USA, Inc. is seeking a Director, R&D Finance in Cambridge, MA. This role is crucial for evaluating and improving finance and business processes, preparing quarterly forecasts, and supporting the monthly close process with budget variance analysis and financial analytics. The Director will also support strategic decision-making, lead External Clinical Long-Range Planning, and function as a core member of the BCL2 Global Product Team, providing financial analysis. Additionally, the position acts as a primary contact for Internal Control and external auditors, and proactively supports Sourcing and Clinical Finance Review Committee governance processes. BeOne is a global oncology company focused on discovering and developing innovative, affordable, and accessible treatments for cancer patients worldwide, with a growing global team of over 11,000 colleagues.

Requirements

Master’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related and 5 years of experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field, OR Bachelor’s degree (or its foreign degree equivalent) in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related and 7 years of progressively responsible experience in the job offered or in any occupation in related field.
Using financial analysis to influence and challenge senior leaders in a global environment.
Understanding of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.
SAP.
TM1.
Biotech finance.
Overseeing financial operations.
Budgeting.
Forecasting.
Strategic planning.
Reviewing accounts payable and accounts receivable to make recommendations for improvement.

Responsibilities

Constantly evaluate finance and/or business processes to identify inefficiencies and propose and execute process improvements.
Prepare quarterly forecast to ensure all expenses are properly planned, providing management with forecast insights to drive accurate resource planning and supporting different stakeholders located in different countries and regions with day-to-day operations.
Support monthly close process, ensuring that all expenses are adequately recognized and providing management with Budget Variance Analysis reports, program/molecule performance metrics and financial analytics to inform senior management and support improved organizational decision-making.
Support management on strategic decision making, including but not limited to program valuation & prioritization, scenario analysis modeling, development plan strategy and financial support to evaluate external development collaborations.
Lead External Clinical Long-Range Planning (LRP) by connecting with R&D leadership, Portfolio Planning, R&D Sourcing and Corporate Finance to align on assumptions, build forecast model and present results to R&D and Finance leadership.
Function as a core member of BCL2 Global Product Team, providing the team with useful financial analysis/perspective to ensure finance point of view is considered on team decision making.
SPOC for Internal Control and external auditors, coordinating the timely delivery of internal controls, providing auditors with required documents, addressing questions, and managing control narratives and quarterly certification.
Proactively support Sourcing and Clinical Finance Review Committee governance processes with a detailed review of study budgets and partnering with Global Clinical Program Lead, Program manager and Sourcing lead to present budget to governance chairs and address their questions to ensure study budget endorsement.