Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Job Summary

Key business partner to R&D VP with ability to influence key decisions. Manage R&D IDS Budget of $220M with spend spread across multiple regions & locations. Provide financial support and guidance to IDS R&D organization of ±800 associates across 7 main locations and budget maintained across more than 200 cost centers.

Responsibilities

• Manage by project spend, including labor, clinical trials, consulting, materials and all other costs
• Support Global FP&A processes including budgeting, strategic planning, actuals and estimates
• Develop and maintain key Finance dashboards for R&D and Finance leadership
• Assist with the development of a global reporting package & associated commentary
• Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice
• Prepare, examine, and/or analyze accounting record, financial statement, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards
• Survey operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop, or maintain solutions to business and financial problems
• BPC and Power BI super-user responsible for creating value add reports and ad hoc analysis
• Prepare the annual US R&D Tax Package, provide R&D spend support to Transfer Pricing team and support Quebec SR&DE tax credit and audits as needed
• Support R&D Capital Budget and processes from CB2 approval to asset in service
• Various ad-hoc reporting & analysis

Requirements

• Detail oriented individual with strong systems ability, including BPC, Power BI, Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong organizational & communication skills
• Ability to provide value add analysis to support decision making and also challenge R&D leaders
• Team player who often will act as consolidator of analysis & reporting for global IDS business
• Ability to work independently with R&D leadership

Qualifications

• 4-year degree in Accounting or Finance
• 5-10 years of relevant experience
• CPA certification preferred