Associate Director, Financial Planning & Performance

Jazz Pharmaceutical sis a global biopharma company whose purpose is to innovate to transform the lives of patients and their families. We are dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases — often with limited or no therapeutic options. We have a diverse portfolio of marketed medicines, including leading therapies for sleep disorders and epilepsy, and a growing portfolio of cancer treatments.

Our patient-focused and science-driven approach powers pioneering research and development advancements across our robust pipeline of innovative therapeutics in oncology and neuroscience. Jazz is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with research and development laboratories, manufacturing facilities and employees in multiple countries committed to serving patients worldwide. Please visit  for more information.

Job Description

The Financial Planning & Performance Lead is accountable for FP&A OPEX & CAPEX planning, and performance management across the organisation, owning the end-to-end execution of planning and reporting outputs across actuals, forecast, and budget, including workforce, direct and indirect expenditure.

The role plays a central role in how financial planning operates across the organisation, ensuring that planning processes, governance, and outputs are consistent, reliable, and delivered effectively s is not a business partnering role; it focuses on the execution, governance, and delivery of planning processes across the organisation.

This role is the enterprise owner of the Financial Planning & Performance domain, with end-to-end accountability for the integrity, governance, and reliability of planning and actuals outputs relied upon by executive and Finance leadership. This includes ownership of financial governance within FP&A, including accruals, allocations, and alignment between actuals, forecast, and budget.

Through a category-based approach and a delegated execution model, the role ensures outputs are accurate, timely, and suitable for consolidation and executive review, supporting close, forecast, and leadership decision-making processes.

A key aspect of the role is improving how planning operates across systems, processes, and ways of working, including leveraging automation, advanced analytics, and evolving AI capabilities to enhance efficiency, consistency, and scalability of planning delivery.

This role reports to the Head of FP&A Operations within the Global Finance organisation

• Own the enterprise-wide in-year budget management and rolling forecast governance framework, including planning cadence, cycle design, and timelines.

• Act as the accountable leader for planning governance compliance across the organisation, including approval of material judgement calls, exceptions, and deviations from standard planning rules.

• Own and maintain planning methodologies, category frameworks, drivers, and forecasting standards.

• Ensure consistency of planning approaches across functions and oversee forecast quality, predictability, and stability across all planning cycles.

• Set, enforce, and evolve enterprise planning standards and policies, with authority to require compliance and resolve material disputes in planning treatment.

• Own the delivery and management of planning outputs, including explanation of key planning drivers and category-level performance.

• Ensure that outputs across actuals, forecast, and budget are aligned and internally consistent, robust and explainable, and suitable for executive and functional reporting.

• Accountable for the accuracy, completeness and integrity of planning outputs, including oversight of material adjustments, error remediation, and corrections where required.

• Own the FP&A planning and actuals control environment, including governance of accruals, allocations, and alignment across planning and reporting cycles.

• Act as the senior escalation point for planning-and actuals-related risk, control issues, and audit observations, ensuring timely remediation and sustained compliance.

• Ensure outputs are produced within a controlled, auditable framework aligned to financial governance requirements.

• Act as a central coordination point across FP&A teams, ensuring alignment and consistency across planning activities.

• Manage planning cadence, timelines, and…