Associate Director, Business Planning

Role Summary

As the Associate Director of Business Planning, you will be a pivotal part of the Biogen North America (BNA) Commercial pharma finance team. You will deliver strategic financial insights through reporting, forecasting, and business planning. You will work with the Head of FP&A to ensure data accuracy and provide analytics to support impactful business decisions, collaborating with BNA finance leadership and partners such as Market Access and Medical. You will lead special projects and oversee budgeting, financial reporting, and investments across the organization, aligning with organizational goals.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the finance lead for BNA operating expense budgeting processes, coordinating inputs from BNA employees and finance team.
• Provide comprehensive support to the Head of FP&A, from budget and forecast planning to allocation, variance analysis, and performance tracking.
• Lead operating expense consolidations and reviews, ensuring financial accuracy.
• Support functional business partners and alliances in managing budgets, investments, and full-time equivalents (FTEs), including tracking and variance analysis for significant operational expenditures.
• Design and deliver training to BNA stakeholders on financial and procurement processes.
• Lead internal operating expense and resource budgeting, approve requisitions, drive reconciliation activities, and post journal entries.
• Identify business trends, prepare materials for business reviews, and consolidate financial insights for executive audiences. Review investments to ensure alignment with business strategy and value creation goals.
• Handle ad hoc requests to manage BNA profit and loss requirements, and provide support for inquiries from corporate controllers, tax, treasury, and audit teams.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree; MBA or CPA preferred.
• Required: At least 10 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry or finance/strategic consulting discipline.
• Required: Distinctive quantitative, critical thinking, and modeling skills.
• Required: Strong oral and written communication skills, including executive communication.
• Required: Proven ability to build productive working relationships across various levels, functions, and teams.
• Required: Attention to detail with the ability to maintain an “80/20” mindset.
• Required: Independent, out-of-the-box thinker with conviction of thought.
• Required: Strong proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with Hyperion/Essbase.
• Required: Experience managing financial consolidations, process design, and delivering training.

Skills

• Quantitative analysis and modeling
• Executive communication
• Relationship-building across multiple levels and functions
• Attention to detail and problem solving
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; Hyperion/Essbase experience
• Financial consolidation, process design, and training delivery

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or CPA preferred