Associate Director, Financial Planning and Analysis

Job Type: Contract
Length: 6 months (renewable)
Pay Rate: $100 - $125/hr.
Location: Remote

We are currently seeking a dynamic, highly motivated, and experienced individual for the position of Associate Director, FP&A. This is a hands-on business partnership role. This position will be responsible for supporting company-wide P&L consolidation activities as well as being an FP&A partner to key leaders in G&A. The individual will be directly responsible for coordination of consolidation activities related to planning and close. The position will also work in partnership with the team to support G&A planning, close, reporting, and analytics.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

· Support the company-wide FP&A calendar, financial consolidations, and narrative development for forecasts, budgets, and long-range plans.
· Partner with the VP of FP&A and FP&A Leadership Team to deliver key planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis activities.
· Prepare financial summaries and executive-level commentary for leadership reviews, highlighting key performance drivers, risks, opportunities, and variances.
· Serve as a trusted financial advisor to G&A leadership teams, providing actionable insights and financial guidance.
· Collaborate with Corporate FP&A, Accounting, Tax, Financial Operations, IT, and cross-functional stakeholders to achieve business and financial objectives.
· Develop a deep understanding of departmental strategies, key business drivers, and the financial implications of operational decisions.
· Analyze and interpret key P&L line items, identifying trends, risks, opportunities, and drivers of performance.
· Coordinate Finance activities to deliver consolidated P&Ls and ensure alignment across planning and reporting processes.
· Manage and maintain corporate allocation methodologies and related reporting.
· Lead the timely completion of operating expense forecasts, annual budgets, long-range plans, and headcount planning activities.
· Drive month-end, quarter-end, and year-end accrual and purchase order cleanup processes in partnership with business and accounting teams.
· Prepare operating expense summaries, variance analyses, and executive-level commentary on financial performance.
· Support Finance Transformation initiatives focused on process improvements, standardization, systems enhancements, and analytics capabilities.
· Contribute to corporate projects involving consolidated reporting, long-range planning modeling, financial analytics, and process optimization.
· Build strong collaborative relationships across Finance and business functions to improve decision-making, operational efficiency, and financial performance.

Key Core Competencies:

· Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
· Appetite to learn about the business and how the financials tie into the strategy.
· Ability to work within a team, sharing ideas for best practices and process improvements.
· Ability to present results to multiple levels of the organization.
· Strong problem-solving skills, especially related to financial system integration.
· Exceptional interpersonal skills, able to establish strong rapport and partnerships at all levels of the organization.
· Ability to work independently under general guidance, take initiative and complete tasks to deadlines.
· Ability to spot and deliver improvements.

Education and Experience:
· Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting
· FP&A experience
· Advanced expertise in Hyperion, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint
· Minimum 8 – 12 (w/o Master’s) or 6 – 8 years (with Master’s) years of relevant experience in biotech or pharmaceutical industry
· Experience using SAP and Oracle is a plus.
· Financial systems implementation experience a plus

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