About This Role:
The Senior Manager, Strategic Finance & Global Functions FP&A is a pivotal role that merges operational finance planning and analysis with strategic finance support. Positioned within the Global Product and Strategy & Commercialization (GPS&C) organization, you will engage with senior FP&A leaders and executives across Research & Development, Commercial, and Corporate Functions. Your work will encompass budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, and close processes, while also providing strategic finance partnership for the Global Immunology franchise. This role is crucial in driving financial rigor, accuracy, and transparency, ensuring disciplined execution and strategic judgment across the development and commercialization lifecycle. As a trusted finance partner, you will contribute significantly to investment decision support, valuation, and modeling, impacting strategic decisions and the overall business structure.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and planning activities for designated GPS&C functions.
- Deliver timely and accurate monthly and quarterly management reporting, highlighting risks and opportunities.
- Act as a trusted advisor providing financial insights for resource allocation and operating decisions.
- Drive financial discipline through effective planning, control, and execution.
- Provide strategic finance decision support, including business case reviews and vendor contract evaluation.
- Ensure accuracy, integrity, and documentation of financial records and business cases.
- Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes for GPS&C.
- Support consolidation efforts and prepare earnings materials and flux analysis.
- Play a key role in the Day 5 Close process, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Maintain strong internal controls and compliance with accounting policies.
- Support ad hoc finance projects as needed.
- Serve as a finance partner to Immunology asset teams in development and commercialization.
- Support investment proposals through objective financial analysis, valuation modeling, and scenario modeling.
- Provide financial input for strategy and governance decisions. Clearly articulate asset financial positions, risks, and recommendations.
- Develop long-range asset profit and loss outlooks for global forecasting.
- Support franchise strategy and enterprise planning activities.
- Partner with regional finance teams to understand local asset strategies, performance, and risks
Who You Are:
You are highly adaptable and excel at the intersection of strategic decision support and operational excellence. You thrive in environments requiring a balance between portfolio-level investment analysis and hands-on FP&A execution. Your ability to bring rigor, clarity, and business insight to every interaction makes you a valuable leader in finance.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in finance, accounting, audit, or related roles.
- Advanced experience with Excel and PowerPoint.
- Strong quantitative, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to convey impactful stories using data.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and partner across functions.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, operate with urgency, and perform under tight deadlines.
- Attention to detail with the ability to apply an 80/20 mindset where appropriate.
- Strong foundation in financial analysis, modeling, valuation methodologies, and financial theory.
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution.
Preferred Skills:
- Advanced degree or professional certification (MBA, CPA, MS).
- Knowledge of drug development and the biopharmaceutical industry.
- Prior experience in investment banking, strategic finance, or biopharma industry roles.
- Experience with Oracle, Hyperion, and Business Objects.
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.
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.
