Financial Planning and Analysis Associate Director

Job Title

Financial Planning & Analysis Associate Director

50 Northern Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02210

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• Provide financial direction and strategic insight to functional leaders, defining and delivering short‑term and long‑term goals, including identification of key value drivers and business KPIs.
• Provide strategic decision support, influencing decisions and identifying opportunities to invest, save costs, and mitigate risks on a global basis.
• Lead the financial planning process, including budget, forecast, and long‑range plan, developing key scenarios and identifying risks and uncertainties with potential mitigation.
• Lead financial performance management, including monthly accruals, forecast and operating review, focusing on understanding the key drivers of short‑term performance and communicating the range of possible outcomes.
• Design, enhance, and maintain business valuation and cost‑of‑goods‑sold models, providing COGS and gross‑margin analysis and opportunities for cost improvement at launch and over the long term.
• Partner within FP&A and with accounting, DTE, and HR to ensure clear ownership and management of deliverables, ensuring seamless finance services to the business.
• Ensure financial integrity and robust corporate governance and compliance for areas of responsibility.
• Telecommuting permitted up to 40%.

Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a related field and 8 years of experience in the job offered or in a Financial Planning & Analysis Associate Director related occupation.

• Experience calculating cost of goods sold and manufacturing costing for biologics products in the pharmaceutical industry, understanding overall manufacturing and supply chain expenses.
• Experience in building financial models to assess manufacturing network strategy, determining geographical location of suppliers, and assessing geopolitical and cost impacts.
• Experience with significant capital expenditures in the pharmaceutical industry and business partnering with the executive team.
• Strong skills using MS Office and financial software applications including Oracle Hyperion for reporting and consolidation.
• Experience building automation in financial software tools including Power BI to create automated dashboards.
• Experience using Inventory Management Systems including Oracle Inventory Management to measure inventory levels.
• Ability to coordinate budget and forecast cycles, consolidating data, challenging stakeholder assumptions, and assessing future expenses and investments.
• Ability to coordinate cost of goods sold, leveraging COGS to assess product portfolio profitability and strategy.
• Ability to lead and drive change in developing business environments with tight deadlines across multiple zones.
• Experience conducting portfolio analysis, valuation, and ROI/ROIC, with strong analytical skills for variance analysis and risk/opportunity identification.
• Experience analyzing manufacturing cost to determine future biologics portfolio COGS and understand drug substance performance and overhead costing.
• Experience conducting net present value analysis for manufacturing network strategy and comparing scenarios to evaluate financial profitability.
• Serve as a key financial leader to the executive team, providing strategic insight, explaining variances, and developing remediation plans.
• Experience assessing manufacturing chain investment scenarios, providing guidance on financial implications of large investments.
• Experience calculating manufacturing cost per dose to forecast future gross margin of biologics launches.
• Define and deliver short‑term and long‑term goals for Commercial Manufacturing and Supply Chain Cell & Gene Therapy and Biologics programs, including key value drivers and business KPIs.

$156,000 - $234,000

Vertex is committed to equal employment opportunity and non‑discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person’s race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vertex is an E‑Verify Employer in the United States. Vertex will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.