Head of Finance, US Neuroscience

## Head of Finance, US Neuroscience Apply locations:
Cambridge (US) time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R-22103
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* Title:

** Head of Finance, US Neuroscience
** Company:
** Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals Inc.
** About Ipsen:
** Ipsen is a mid-sized global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on transformative medicines in three therapeutic areas:
Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience. Supported by nearly 100 years of development experience, with global hubs in the U.S., France and the U.K, we tackle areas of high unmet medical need through research and innovation. Our passionate teams in more than 40 countries are focused on what matters and endeavor every day to bring medicines to patients in 88 countries.

We build a workplace that champions human-centric leadership and fosters a culture of collaboration, excellence and impact. At Ipsen, every individual is empowered to be their true selves, grow and thrive alongside the company’s success. Join us on our journey towards sustainable growth, creating real impact on patients and society!

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* Job Description:

** As a key member of the North America Finance Leadership team, serve as a trusted strategic partner to the Neuroscience franchise leadership, providing strong Finance leadership to support a critical business scaling phase, full market activation, and disciplined investment choices.

This role leads Finance activities for Neuroscience and partners closely with the Franchise Head to ensure resources, capabilities, and execution plans are fully aligned behind strategic and operational priorities, with robust financial discipline to enable sustainable sales and profitability growth.
** WHAT - Main Responsibilities
**** Neuroscience Leadership Team
*** Act as a business partner for the Neuroscience Head and Franchise Leadership team members;
* Support the franchise through a critical business scaling phase, ensuring Finance actively enables full market activation, launch readiness, and disciplined investment choices to capture the expected growth opportunity;
* Provide Commercial Finance support to deepen understanding of market dynamics, patient journey, and key growth levers, translating commercial opportunities and assumptions into robust financial scenarios and plans;
* Lead Strategic Performance Review preparation;
* Work in close collaboration with forecasting team and ensure consistency with Finance & Supply cycles (ROF / F1 / F2 / Budget / 5YP / LRP);
* Whenever relevant, prepare scenarios and ensure business cases are properly translated into Financials: access, competitive landscape, commercial and distribution strategies;
* Provide strong Finance leadership to support decision-making, resource allocation, and execution discipline required to scale the franchise and achieve its sales and profitability ambitions;
* Recommend and challenge actions to maximize business capabilities on a short/long term basis
** FP&A
*** Be the finance point of contact for the Neuroscience Team
* Lead performance monitoring (Sales, Headcount, P&L, Profitability Analysis)
* Coordinate the financial planning processes (5YP, LRP, Budgeting and Forecasting) for the Neuro Franchise
* Support the Franchise Head by providing analysis for proper financial / economic assessment of Operational decisions, cost control recommendations, and new business assessments.
* Lead all closing activities for the perimeter, in close collaboration with accounting, GtN and FP&A teams and ensure that group deadlines are respected, and reporting is delivered on time.
** Pricing Strategy, Tactics & Decision Support
*** Serve as Finance lead for pricing strategy, tactics, and decision support, ensuring robust financial analysis informs value, access, contracting, and lifecycle management choices;
* Support Pricing & Contracting Committees preparation and ensure financial accuracy, strategic consistency, and clear decision rationale for presented business cases;
* Build and challenge scenarios to assess pricing, access, reimbursement, competitive, and regulatory implications across short-…