Director, Financial Planning and Analysis; FP&A

Cosette Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a U.S.

-based, fully integrated pharmaceutical company with capabilities in product development, manufacturing, and commercial operations. Cosette has a fast-growing portfolio of branded pharmaceuticals in the cardiology, women’s health, and migraine markets. Cosette has a long history of quality manufacturing of complex dosage forms—including topical creams, ointments, oral liquids/solutions, and suppositories—which has led to consistent supply to customers and commercialization success. Cosette has corporate and manufacturing facilities in New Jersey and North Carolina and is supported by more than 300 dedicated employees across all functional areas.

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The Director of FP&A leads the financial cadence for budget planning, forecasting, and management reporting, delivering clear insights and decision support to the CFO, Executive Leadership Team (ELT), and Board of Directors (BOD). The Director partners closely with functional leaders to drive accountability, evaluate investments, and support value creation through rigorous analytics, financial modeling, and scenario planning. This role is also responsible for elevating FP&A capabilities, reporting, and analytics to be commensurate with the size, scale and complexity of Cosette, with a focus on scalable processes, executive and board-ready reporting, dashboard analytics, and forward-looking risk identification.

The Director of FP&A reports to the Senior Director of FP&A and works closely with the CFO to deliver high-quality planning, reporting, decision support, and technology-enabled finance capabilities, including practical application of automation and AI-driven tools to improve insight generation and planning effectiveness.

• Lead the annual operating plan, quarterly forecasts, and long-range plan for the full P&L (revenue, COGS, operating costs, and OI&E).
• Partner with functional leaders (Commercial Operations, Tech Ops, R&D, and G&A) to translate operational plans into financial plans and drive accountability to targets.
• Own and continuously improve the Long-Range Strategic plan process, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities, operational plans, and financial outcomes through clear assumptions, scenario analysis, and actionable recommendations.

• Prepare monthly reporting packages for the CFO, including KPI dashboards, price/volume and variance analyses, and key risks and opportunities.
• Create and maintain Board of Directors materials (board slides), including financial summaries, outlook updates, KPI trends, dashboard analytics, and supporting narrative that clearly articulates performance, risks, opportunities, and key business implications.
• Standardize reporting definitions, metrics, policies, and procedures to ensure a single source of truth across functions and strengthen a forward-looking FP&A and BOD reporting posture.

• Deliver ad hoc and recurring analytics to support decision-making, including profitability, mix, and price volume impact.
• Identify performance drivers and root causes; recommend actions and quantify financial impact.
• Support Business Development by reviewing and challenging deal NPV models (assumptions, inputs, risk adjustments, and scenario/sensitivity analyses), and clearly articulate the financial and organizational impact of opportunities as they come to the business.
• Partner with leaders to define targets, track initiatives, and measure realized savings/benefits versus plan.

• Own the FP&A calendar, planning tools, and core planning processes; continuously improve templates, workflows, and data flows to reduce cycle times, strengthen insight quality, and scale with business complexity.
• Ensure strong data governance across actuals, plan, and forecast; reconcile key metrics and assumptions across systems (SAP ERP and Oracle Hyperion Planning).
• Develop KPI dashboards, executive reporting, and self-service analytics, leveraging Power
  
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