Manager, Finance

Role Summary

Manager, Finance responsible for forming partnerships with stakeholders, supporting quarterly close, budgeting and forecasting, and ensuring SOX compliance to support our clinical development programs.

Responsibilities

• Form and maintain strong business partnerships and become the key resource to stakeholders within other departments
• Review and approval of purchase orders, ensuring all finance related matters are addressed and the efficiency of the overall process
• Completion of monthly close accurately and timely, including creation of journal entries, account reconciliations and variance analysis commentary to be presented at the monthly close meetings
• Ensure compliance with SOX requirements and accounting policy and procedures
• Maintain control of key areas of balance sheet and support external audit
• Monthly variance analysis to drive accountability and influence corrective action recommendations as needed
• Establishing and managing our budgets and financial forecasts, working with key business stakeholders and external vendors (e.g. CROs)
• Utilize appropriate analytics and benchmarks to produce an accurate, quality study model that is updated regularly, while maintaining constant fiscal vigilance on trial spend and trends
• Other ad-hoc requests or projects as needed

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or equivalent
• Required: Minimum of 5+ years of working finance experience within financial planning or accounting
• Required: Knowledge and understanding of U.S. GAAP, and SOX compliance requirements
• Required: Strong financial acumen with a value creation mindset
• Required: Strong oral and written communications inclusive of presentation abilities
• Required: Demonstrated ability to influence and build strong working relationships with business partners
• Required: High sense of urgency with the ability to meet tight deadlines while maintaining flexibility to adapt to changing priorities
• Preferred: Life sciences industry experience, particularly supporting research and development/clinical trials
• Preferred: MBA or CPA a plus

Skills

• Financial planning and analysis
• Budgeting and forecasting
• GAAP and SOX compliance
• Journal entries and account reconciliations
• Variance analysis and financial commentary
• Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
• Analytical mindset and ability to leverage analytics for decision-making