Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis, CMC

About the Role

The individual in this role will play a critical role in leading financial planning and analysis (FP&A) for Moderna’s Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) function. This role, in close partnership with the Head of CMC Finance, will also be responsible for partnering across the CMC FP&A and accounting organizations to drive consolidated reporting, analysis and forecast of CMC’s overall cost profile (~$1 billion).

This role is a key partner to Corporate FP&A, CMC Accounting and CMC FP&A – ensuring accurate forecasts, clear performance reporting, and strong governance of CMC’s FP&A data hierarchy. The role has high visibility and is expected to deliver decision‑ready insights, improve planning/reporting processes, and ensure tight coordination between planning and closing.

• Manage the CMC FP&A planning cycles and variance analysis.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for Corporate FP&A on CMC results, forecast updates, and key business drivers.
• Develop planning calendars, align cross‑functional inputs, and ensure timely, high‑quality deliverables.
• Create CMC admin cost forecasts and model the allocation of overhead and material costs submitted by other CMC FP&A partners.
• Deliver performance insights and executive‑ready reporting materials that highlight drivers, risks, and opportunities.

• Own and maintain the CMC long‑range plan model in partnership with the broader CMC FP&A team, ensuring consistent assumptions and supporting scenario analysis and model enhancements.
• Build sensitivity analysis to support investment decisions and trade‑offs across the CMC portfolio.

• Own and manage CMC’s FP&A data hierarchy, ensuring integrity and consistency across planning and reporting.
• Establish governance processes for hierarchy changes, mapping, and documentation, partnering with relevant system/process owners as needed.
• Ensure planning and reporting structures support efficient analysis and decision‑making across CMC, including driving insights into therapeutic P&Ls.

• Ensure tight alignment between FP&A and Accounting, including monthly close readiness, accrual understanding, and variance root‑cause analysis.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure consistent definitions, reconciliations, and reporting views that support both management reporting and financial controls.
• Identify and implement process improvements that strengthen transparency, accuracy, and cycle times.

• Drive standardization and continuous improvement across planning templates, reporting packages, and analytics.
• Improve forecasting accuracy through enhanced driver tracking and disciplined assumptions management.
• Contribute to broader Finance transformation efforts by streamlining workflows and improving data quality and usability.

• 5+ years of progressive experience in finance within the life sciences industry, including financial planning & analysis, and/or financial operations roles.
• Bachelor’s degree required in Finance, Business or related areas.
• Experience with Oracle planning and reporting software (e.g. Essbase/EPM).

• Pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry experience.
• Strong business acumen: proven ability to effectively scrutinize and challenge assumptions and interpret the strategy and priorities of the organization in financial terms.
• Excellent project management / leadership skills with a demonstrated track record and ability to engage teams to work together towards common deadlines.
• Strong presentation skills to deliver succinctly and effectively recommendations to senior leaders, framing complex concepts.
• Prior experience working in a matrixed environment; experience coordinating processes and delivering results through collaboration of related teams.
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing conditions and different cultures.
• Exceptional attitude, diligence, and ability to motivate teams.
• Understanding of operational dynamics and the external environment.
• A desire to make an…