About This Role:
As the Associate Director of Business Planning, you will be a pivotal part of the Biogen North America (BNA) Commercial pharma finance team. Tasked with delivering strategic financial insights, you will play a critical role in financial reporting, forecasting, and business planning activities. In this position, you will work closely with the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) to ensure the accuracy of financial data and provide meaningful analytics that support impactful business decisions. Your collaboration with BNA finance team leadership and functional business partners, such as Market Access and Medical, will be key. You will also lead special projects, designing innovative processes for operating expense tracking and oversight, while managing routine budgeting processes and financial reporting. Your role involves overseeing investments across the organization, working in partnership with the Office of the President and Commercial stakeholders, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
What You’ll Do:
Serve as the finance lead for BNA operating expense budgeting processes, coordinating inputs from BNA employees and finance team.
Provide comprehensive support to the Head of FP&A, from budget and forecast planning to allocation, variance analysis, and performance tracking.
Lead operating expense consolidations and reviews, ensuring financial accuracy.
Support functional business partners and alliances in managing budgets, investments, and full-time equivalents (FTEs), including tracking and variance analysis for significant operational expenditures.
Design and deliver training to BNA stakeholders on financial and procurement processes.
Lead internal operating expense and resource budgeting, approve requisitions, drive reconciliation activities, and post journal entries.
Identify business trends, prepare materials for business reviews, and consolidate financial insights for executive audiences. Review investments to ensure alignment with business strategy and value creation goals.
Handle ad hoc requests to manage BNA profit and loss requirements, and provide support for inquiries from corporate controllers, tax, treasury, and audit teams.
Who You Are:
You are a proactive and strategic thinker with a passion for finance and business planning. Your excellent quantitative and analytical skills are paired with a keen attention to detail, allowing you to discern key insights from complex data. You thrive in dynamic environments and are adept at building productive relationships across various levels and functions. With a high sense of urgency and the ability to meet tight deadlines, you are flexible, adaptive, and driven by a genuine interest in understanding and contributing to the business.
Required Skills:
Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or CPA preferred.
At least 10 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry or finance/strategic consulting discipline.
Distinctive quantitative, critical thinking, and modeling skills.
Strong oral and written communication skills, including executive communication.
Proven ability to build productive working relationships across various levels, functions, and teams.
Attention to detail with the ability to maintain an “80/20” mindset.
Independent, out-of-the-box thinker with conviction of thought.
Strong proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with Hyperion/Essbase
Experience managing financial consolidations, process design, and delivering training.
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Additional Information
Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.
Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance.
In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
- Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement
- Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
- A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
- Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance
- 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit
- 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year
- Employee Resource Groups participation
Why Biogen?
We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.
At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.
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What We Do
Through cutting-edge science and medicine, Biogen discovers, develops and delivers innovative therapies worldwide for people living with serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases.
Founded in 1978, Biogen is a pioneer in biotechnology and today the Company has the leading portfolio of medicines to treat multiple sclerosis, has introduced the first and only approved treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, and is at the forefront of neurology research for conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Biogen also manufactures and commercializes biosimilars of advanced biologics.
With approximately 7000 people worldwide, we are truly a global organization, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is also home to our research operations. Our international headquarters are based in Zug, Switzerland and we have world-class manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Denmark. We offer therapies globally through direct affiliate presence in 30 countries and a network of distribution partners in over 50 additional countries.
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