Description
Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. They bring together scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble capital to allow them to take courageous leaps.
The Associate Director, Finance, will be a key member of the Flagship Pioneering finance team, responsible for supporting financial planning, reporting, accounting, forecasting, and operational finance activities across primarily the Pioneering Medicine's (PM) portfolio of internal and partnered programs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as a finance partner to Pioneering Medicines leadership, program teams, functional leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders, providing financial insights that support portfolio, program, and business decision-making.
- Manage financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis for assigned PM entities, asset companies, internal programs, and partnered programs.
- Lead or support monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities, including accruals, journal entry and reconciliation review, financial reporting, flux analysis, and coordination with accounting and finance operations teams.
- Partner with Program Managers and functional leaders to develop and maintain program-level budgets, forecasts, operational plans, and financial models.
- Support financial management of research collaborations, partnered programs, and external pharma relationships.
- Provide accounting and controllership support for PM, Flagship Labs, or related portfolio company needs as required.
- Coordinate with Finance Operations, Accounting, Tax, Legal, Business Development, and external consultants to support audits, tax compliance, statutory or fund reporting, and other complex or evolving business needs.
- Help develop, standardize, and improve finance reporting processes, close procedures, forecasting tools, systems, workflows, and internal controls.
- Proactively identify financial, operational, reporting, or control-related risks and opportunities, and recommend practical solutions.
- Guide, mentor, and support junior finance or accounting team members.
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS/BA in accounting or finance; MBA is a plus.
- 10+ years of financial and accounting experience.
- Strong understanding of US GAAP, financial reporting, accounting operations, month-end and quarter-end close processes, account reconciliations, accruals, and internal controls.
- Experience with budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, budget-to-actual analysis, variance analysis, and financial modeling.
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to connect operational priorities, program strategy, contractual obligations, and financial outcomes.
The salary range for this role is $148,000 - $203,500.