Head of Finance, US Neuroscience

Ipsen•Cambridge, MA

11d•$217,500 - $310,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a key member of the North America Finance Leadership team, serve as a trusted strategic partner to the Neuroscience franchise leadership, providing strong Finance leadership to support a critical business scaling phase, full market activation, and disciplined investment choices. This role leads Finance activities for Neuroscience and partners closely with the Franchise Head to ensure resources, capabilities, and execution plans are fully aligned behind strategic and operational priorities, with robust financial discipline to enable sustainable sales and profitability growth.

Requirements

A minimum of 12+ years of experience in senior Finance leadership roles, including commercial finance experience supporting high-growth or scaling businesses
Demonstrated experience developing robust forecasts, financial analyses, and business cases across sales, expenses, capital, and strategic investment priorities
Proven track record as a strategic business partner, translating franchise strategy into financial plans, resource allocation choices, and disciplined execution
Thorough understanding of financial statements and their interface between external reporting, management reporting and budgeting/forecasting
Leadership experience managing direct teams and influencing dotted-line, CoE, and cross-functional partners in a matrix environment
Solid knowledge of Statutory accounting and tax implications
Prior leadership experience in a corporate FP&A function
Solid understanding of IFRS/GAAP
Experience in the pharmaceutical or specialty care commercial environment, with solid understanding of key commercial drivers, market access, pricing, launch readiness, and lifecycle management
Expert level Excel and knowledge of at least one ERP Finance (SAP & TM1 are a plus)
Fluent in English.

Nice To Haves

Prior Big 4/financial accounting experience desired, not required.
French would be a plus (not required)

Responsibilities

Act as a business partner for the Neuroscience Head and Franchise Leadership team members;
Support the franchise through a critical business scaling phase, ensuring Finance actively enables full market activation, launch readiness, and disciplined investment choices to capture the expected growth opportunity;
Provide Commercial Finance support to deepen understanding of market dynamics, patient journey, and key growth levers, translating commercial opportunities and assumptions into robust financial scenarios and plans;
Lead Strategic Performance Review preparation;
Work in close collaboration with forecasting team and ensure consistency with Finance & Supply cycles (ROF / F1 / F2 / Budget / 5YP / LRP);
Whenever relevant, prepare scenarios and ensure business cases are properly translated into Financials: access, competitive landscape, commercial and distribution strategies;
Provide strong Finance leadership to support decision-making, resource allocation, and execution discipline required to scale the franchise and achieve its sales and profitability ambitions;
Recommend and challenge actions to maximize business capabilities on a short/long term basis
Be the finance point of contact for the Neuroscience Team
Lead performance monitoring (Sales, Headcount, P&L, Profitability Analysis)
Coordinate the financial planning processes (5YP, LRP, Budgeting and Forecasting) for the Neuro Franchise
Support the Franchise Head by providing analysis for proper financial / economic assessment of Operational decisions, cost control recommendations, and new business assessments.
Lead all closing activities for the perimeter, in close collaboration with accounting, GtN and FP&A teams and ensure that group deadlines are respected, and reporting is delivered on time.
Serve as Finance lead for pricing strategy, tactics, and decision support, ensuring robust financial analysis informs value, access, contracting, and lifecycle management choices;
Support Pricing & Contracting Committees preparation and ensure financial accuracy, strategic consistency, and clear decision rationale for presented business cases;
Build and challenge scenarios to assess pricing, access, reimbursement, competitive, and regulatory implications across short- and long-term horizons;
Partner with Value & Access, Government Pricing, Legal, Compliance, Commercial, and Global teams to support sound pricing decisions in an evolving pricing and regulatory environment.
Partner closely with Procurement as the Finance point of contact for the Neuroscience Leadership Team, helping the business understand evolving needs, benchmark key investment areas required to scale the franchise (such as media buy) and leverage North America and Global Procurement capabilities to support transformation projects, efficiency initiatives, and cost optimization.
Member of North America Finance Leadership Team
Active in driving animation, development, motivation and retention of the team members
Directly manage and oversee a team of 1 direct report
Lead Finance initiatives for North America to positively impact Finance transformation and team engagement