As the Manager of Corporate Finance, you will play a pivotal role within our Corporate FP&A team, reporting directly to the Head of Corporate FP&A. You will have regular interactions with the Head of FP&A, CFO, and senior leaders across various functions, providing critical analytics for executive-level projects that seamlessly blend strategy and finance. Your key responsibilities will include managing the company’s Strategic Financial Trajectory (SFT/LRP), which encompasses extensive modeling and scenario planning. Your efforts will directly contribute to shaping the financial future of our organization and aligning our financial strategies with overarching business goals. In this role, you will be an integral part of the business structure, ensuring that financial insights drive strategic decision-making and foster growth.
What You’ll Do
Lead Biogen’s medium and long-range planning efforts.
Build and maintain Biogen’s corporate finance model to project and analyze impacts of product performance, R&D portfolio decisions, capital allocation strategy, and business development deals.
Perform sum-of-the-parts valuation analysis, quantifying projected shareholder value creation under various scenarios.
Communicate strategic opportunities and critical issues related to the company’s financial trajectory to senior management.
Partner with Corporate Strategy leaders to align financial trajectory with strategic direction and future goals.
Determine optimal return of excess capital to shareholders.
Assess historical ROI to inform future investment decisions.
Support Corporate Strategy team in prioritizing portfolio investments.
Drive forecasting process improvement and automation.
Who You Are
You are someone who thrives in analytical environments, with an unwavering commitment to excellence and a strong work ethic. You excel in fast-paced, rapidly changing settings, working seamlessly within cross-functional teams. Your ability to navigate complex scenarios and maintain focus under pressure sets you apart. You embrace ambiguity and adapt quickly, all while maintaining a keen attention to detail. Your proactive attitude and sense of urgency allow you to meet tight deadlines and continuously seek process improvements.
Required Skills
At least 5 years of finance experience, ideally in investment banking or another Pharm/Biotech company.
Distinctive quantitative and modeling skills.
Practical knowledge of financial theory and valuation methodologies.
Ability to navigate and influence in a matrixed organizational structure.
Excellent learning agility.
Comfort with ambiguity.
Ability to work under pressure and within short time constraints.
High sense of urgency with ability to meet tight deadlines and flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.
Process improvement mindset.
Preferred Skills:
Knowledge of drug development and life sciences.
Prior experience in investment banking or industry Biopharma.
Experience with Hyperion planning systems.
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 Biogen.
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.
Skills Required
- At least 5 years of finance experience
- Distinctive quantitative and financial modeling skills
- Practical knowledge of financial theory and valuation methodologies
- Ability to navigate and influence in a matrixed organizational structure
- Excellent learning agility
- Comfort with ambiguity
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- High sense of urgency and flexibility to adapt to changing priorities
- Process improvement mindset
- Knowledge of drug development and life sciences
- Prior experience in investment banking or industry biopharma
- Experience with Hyperion planning systems
Biogen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Biogen and has not been reviewed or approved by Biogen.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally positioned as competitive and often perceived as fair across roles, with total compensation framed as strong when bonus and equity are included. Compensation sentiment is described as above-average overall, though it varies by function and business cycle.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs are repeatedly highlighted as a meaningful part of the total package, including stock programs and an employee stock purchase plan. Equity and bonus elements are portrayed as important contributors to feeling well rewarded beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are described as distinctive, including a year-end shutdown and a paid sabbatical after extended tenure. Vacation, holidays, sick time, and personal-significance days are also presented as supportive of work-life needs.
Biogen Insights
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. For more information, please visit www.biogen.com. Follow us on social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube.
