Executive Director, Corporate FP&A

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the company’s long-range planning, annual budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning processes, ensuring alignment of strategic, operational, and financial plans.
• Use planning and forecasting to anticipate in-year decisions, identify risks and opportunities, evaluate trade-offs, and support dynamic resource reallocation across the business.
• Provide strategic decision support to the CFO, executive leadership team, and Board on profitability, cash flow, capital allocation, investment prioritization, strategic planning, M&A support, and enterprise performance.
• Develop management reporting, KPI frameworks, dashboards, driver-based analysis, and business review materials that improve visibility into business drivers, financial performance, risks, and opportunities.
• Champion predictive analytics, AI-enabled forecasting, scenario modeling, cost analytics, profitability improvement, and data-driven insights to move FP&A beyond variance reporting toward proactive insight and action.
• Lead the FP&A technology roadmap and partner with Finance, IT, and business teams to scale decision-support tools, dashboards, planning models, simulators, and analytics products.
• Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing global FP&A team with strong analytical, digital, executive communication, storytelling, and business-partnering capabilities.
• Establish governance over planning assumptions, data quality, analytics outputs, management reports, automation inputs, and recurring decision-support processes.
• Partner across the organization to improve business performance monitoring, monitor leading indicators, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and drive corrective actions or alternative approaches when performance gaps arise.
• Provide specialist R&D finance support for pipeline strategy, research/discovery, clinical development, regulatory, and therapeutic area investment decisions, ensuring transparency of cost, value, risk, and return across the development portfolio.
• Evaluate R&D portfolio cost, value, risk, and return, including resource allocation across projects, modalities, and therapeutic areas in early and late-stage development using advanced financial evaluation techniques.
• Partner with Development, Regulatory, Clinical, and business development teams to support investment decisions, external collaboration analysis, clinical trial accounting considerations, and senior leadership materials.
• Ensure disciplined cost management, compliance with finance standards, and adherence to SOX and FCF control requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required in Finance, Economics, Business, Accounting, or a related quantitative discipline; MBA, CFA, CPA, or equivalent advanced qualification preferred.
• Experience with process improvement and digital project management frameworks, such as Lean or Agile, is also preferred.
• 10–15 years of progressive finance or FP&A experience, including experience leading and managing teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering strategic decision support to the CFO, C-suite, with experience in long-range planning, profitability improvement, capital efficiency, investment evaluation, financial feasibility studies, M&A support, and capital planning, preferably in a global environment.
• Proven ability to implement dynamic forecasting models, scenario planning, predictive analytics, process improvement, automation, and operational efficiencies within FP&A.
• Relevant R&D finance experience supporting pipeline strategy, research/discovery and development portfolios, clinical or regulatory leadership teams, resource allocation, investment evaluation, and financial governance in a complex global matrix environment preferred.
• Advanced proficiency with enterprise financial systems, including ERP platforms, BI tools, and advanced financial planning systems.
• Desired strong working knowledge of predictive analytics, AI/ML-enabled forecasting, scenario modeling, and data visualization tools.
• Ability to translate digital technologies into practical finance process improvements, dashboards, automation, and decision-support tools.