Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis, CMC
The Role
The individual in this role will play a critical role in leading financial planning and analysis (FP&A) for Moderna’s Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) function. This role, in close partnership with the Head of CMC Finance, will also be responsible for partnering across the CMC FP&A and accounting organizations to drive consolidated reporting, analysis and forecast of CMC’s overall cost profile (~$1 billion).
This role is a key partner to Corporate FP&A, CMC Accounting and CMC FP&A - ensuring accurate forecasts, clear performance reporting, and strong governance of CMC’s FP&A data hierarchy. The role has high visibility and is expected to deliver decision-ready insights, improve planning/reporting processes, and ensure tight coordination between planning and closing.
Here's What You’ll Do
- FP&A Planning & Reporting
- Manage the CMC FP&A planning cycles and variance analysis.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for Corporate FP&A on CMC results, forecast updates, and key business drivers.
- Create CMC Admin cost forecasts and model the allocation of overhead and material costs submitted by other CMC FP&A partners.
- Deliver performance insights and executive-ready reporting materials highlight drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Long-Range Plan (LRP) Model Ownership
- Own and maintain the CMC long-range plan model in partnership with the broader CMC FP&A team, including ensuring consistent assumptions and supporting scenario analysis, and model enhancements.
- Build sensitivity analysis to support investment decisions and trade-offs across the CMC portfolio.
- FP&A Data Hierarchy & Governance
- Own and manage CMC’s FP&A data hierarchy, ensuring integrity and consistency across planning and reporting.
- Establish governance processes for hierarchy changes, mapping, and documentation, partnering with relevant system/process owners as needed.
- Ensure planning and reporting structures support efficient analysis and decision-making across CMC including driving insights into therapeutic P&Ls.
- Cordination between CMC FP&A and CMC Accounting
- Ensure tight alignment between FP&A and Accounting, including monthly close readiness, accrual understanding, and variance root-cause analysis.
- Partner with Accounting to ensure consistent definitions, reconciliations, and reporting views that support both management reporting and financial controls.
- Identify and implement process improvements that strengthen transparency, accuracy, and cycle times.
- Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- Drive standardization and continuous improvement across planning templates, reporting packages, and analytics.
- Improve forecasting accuracy through enhanced driver tracking and disciplined assumptions management.
- Contribute to broader Finance transformation efforts by streamlining workflows and improving data quality and usability.
- 5+ years of progressive experience in Finance within the life sciences industry, including financial planning & analysis, and/or financial operations roles.
- Bachelor’s degree required in Finance, Business or related areas.
- Experience with Oracle planning and reporting software (e.g. Essbase/EPM).
- Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology industry experience.
- Strong business acumen: proven ability to effectively scrutinize and challenge assumptions and interpret the strategy and priorities of the organization in financial terms.
- Excellent project management / leadership skills with demonstrated track record and ability to engage teams to work together towards common deadlines.
- Strong presentation skills to deliver succinctly and effectively deliver recommendations to senior leaders, frames complex concepts.
- Prior experience working in a matrixed environment; experience coordinating processes and delivering results through the collaboration of related teams.
- Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing conditions and different cultures.
- Exceptional attitude, diligence, and ability to motivate teams to do the same.
- Understanding of operational dynamics and the external environment.
- A desire to make an impact as part of a high-growth, transformational company that is Bold, Relentless, Curious, and Collaborative.