Director FP&A Insights and Analytics - REMOTE

For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform.

In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.

The Head of FP&A Insights and Analytics delivers analytical insights, business intelligence, and reporting governance within the FP&A CoE, ensuring outputs are accurate, consistent, decision-ready, and compliant with defined standards. Strengthen performance visibility and performance steering through driver-based analytics, KPI governance, data quality discipline, and actionable insight generation. Support scalable reporting, analytics, and executive decision enablement through standardized definitions, automated dashboards, and continuous improvement.

Duty

% of Time Spent (no less than 10%)

• Develop and maintain analytics across revenue, margin, cost, operational, and transformation performance drivers
• 20
• Own reporting standards, KPI definitions, data checks, and compliance with agreed FP&A reporting governance
• 20
• Perform deep-dive analyses to identify trends, performance gaps, risks, and value creation opportunities, translating findings into actionable insights and recommendations
• 20
• Partner with report production teams to ensure analysis is translated into clear management reporting, executive-ready narratives, and performance steering materials
• 15
• Work with systems and data teams to improve dashboard automation, data reliability, and self-service analytics
• 15
• Apply AI and advanced analytics capabilities to accelerate insight generation, improve anomaly detection, and enhance the accuracy and scalability of analytics outputs
• 10

Stakeholder

Reason for interaction

Finance Systems & Data Teams

Owners of the data for analytical insights

BU Finance Leadership

Key stakeholders for insights

VP FP&A

Direct supervisor

Head of Reporting

Key partner in FP&A org

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) or equivalent in Finance or related discipline
• Experience:
  
  10+ years in business finance or FP&A organization
• Certification/Licensure:
• Other:

• Strong analytics, FP&A, and performance management expertise
• Ability to identify insights from complex financial and operational data sets
• Strong data visualization, dashboarding, and reporting governance skills
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset with strong attention to detail and data integrity
• Data and systems fluency, including BI tools, analytics platforms, and financial systems

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear and type at a computer.

The hiring range for this position in the US is $170,000/yr - $210,000/yr. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, location and any collective agreements, if applicable. Remote candidates located outside the US should be aware that the relevant pay range varies based on country and location.

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