Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

About Us

Dianthus Therapeutics is a publicly traded, clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to designing and delivering novel, best-in-class monoclonal antibodies with improved selectivity and potency. Based in New York City and Waltham, Mass., Dianthus is comprised of an experienced team of biotech and pharma executives who are leading the development of next-generation antibody complement therapeutics, aiming to deliver transformative medicines for people living with severe autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. To learn more, please visit www.dianthustx.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

About the Role

The Senior Manager, FP&A position is an impactful dynamic role, working closely with key stakeholders across the organization. 

Reporting to the Senior Director, FP&A, you will help drive strategic and operational initiatives, delivering financial and business insights, and creating new and improving on existing forecasting and actual reporting processes across the organization. You will be a key business partner to functional teams with a focus on budgeting, forecasting, planning and actual reporting.

Day to day you will be involved with business partnering in support of annual budgeting; strategic financial analysis, long-range planning, and operational and accounting support. You will have direct visibility to senior management, helping shape the future growth of the organization. Ideally, you will have experience working in the Biotech/pharma industry with a proven track record of annual and long-range planning, supporting corporate finance and cash runway, as well as strong understanding of accounting principles within a clinical-stage biotech. Experience reviewing contracts, purchase orders, and booking accruals for R&D activities is necessary to be successful in this role.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing, fast-paced organization where you will be able to enhance your skills and experiences. We are building a culture of individuals who hold our core principles at the center of our operations, with the goal to elevate the care of our patients’ lives. We are open to you working remotely.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide partnership to the business to prepare operational budgets and track against actual performance, ensuring proper alignment of corporate/functionals goals and objectives to budget and forecasts.
• Provide recurring financial analyses across the organization with detailed analysis of actual vs. budget/forecast to help budget owners manage spending; understand and clearly communicate drivers of variances to leadership.
• Partner closely with the controllership team on key process interfaces including the monthly accrual process across the clinical, CMC and discovery activities; review and track PO/Contract requests for assigned departments to ensure adequate financial control, proper accounting, and budget compliance.
• Actively collaborate with functional leaders and development program teams, ensuring timelines, activities, and assumptions are aligned across workstreams
• Actively provide analytical support and participate in the short-term and long-term forecasting process, including ad-hoc analyses and presentations including scenario-based financial forecasts to support strategic investment decisions.
• Proactively identify and implement improvements to existing internal financial budget model, methods and procedures, with the goal of increasing actionable insights, accuracy and efficiency between internal budget model and accounting system.
• Assist with building the future state reporting processes across the FP&A team; assist in the implementation and management of a new prospective FP&A system.
• This role will also have significant growth opportunity by supporting the long-range corporate valuation model, development of industry and peer benchmarks, supporting potential business and alliance deals, and providing analysis to support the disciplined growth trajectory of the organization.

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) or equivalent required; MBA or CPA preferred.
• Experience in financial modeling in both Microsoft Excel and within a corporate ERP / FP&A software solution, with a focus on annual budgeting and long-range planning
• Knowledge of accounting and finance operations, including an understanding of expense recognition criteria for clinical development activities
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, manage priorities and workflow.
• Commitment to excellence, accuracy and high standards.
• Versatility, flexibility, and a willingness to work within constantly changing priorities with enthusiasm.
• Ability to work with all levels of management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.