Overview

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America’s (PhRMA) is seeking a bright, kind and goal-oriented Sr. Director of FP&A to support its Finance efforts.

The role focuses on the organization’s financial planning, forecasting and analysis activities. You will work with colleagues within Administration (in Accounting, AP, Procurement & IT) as well as business partners and senior leadership across PhRMA.

This role requires advanced strategic thinking and communication skills, as the Sr. Director of FP&A collaborates closely with senior leadership.

The Sr. Director will:

Lead the budgeting and forecasting process in a hands-on fashion

Collaborative leadership – coordinate closely with all other PhRMA departments and oversee budget and forecasting activities by their staff.
Compile the consolidated budget and forecasts which support PhRMA’s top line revenues and spending activities throughout the year.
Monitor and evaluate budgets for alignment to PhRMA members’ priorities and to ensure accountability.
With the VP Finance, establish timelines and manage deliverables to those timelines.

Lead the financial reporting process in a hands-on fashion

Prepare monthly and annual financial reporting for the executive team.
Analyze spending for trends and variances.
Creating established and ad-hoc audience-appropriate, impactful, summaries to communicate with senior leadership.
Provide meaningful analysis and reporting to all levels within the organization in a way that can be easily understood by non-financial readers.
Partner with department staff to monitor spending activity versus budget, providing regular review opportunities to assist them in adhering to their annual targets.

Lead development of financial reports

Using PowerBI and working with developers, create analyses and tools to allow business partners a level of self-service reporting, while minimizing their overall effort to accomplish these activities allowing them to maximize their time on PhRMA’s outward-facing priorities.
Review reports for accuracy, identify and work with department staff to resolve any discrepancies and to resolve reporting inquiries.

Represent the Finance department by managing cross-functional projects

Act as project manager for finance-driven projects.
Successfully initiate, plan, design, monitor/control and execute on special projects as needed to meet PhRMA’s strategic initiatives and priorities, and to improve internal financial processes and operations.

Professional Experience / Requirements

Minimum Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance or Accounting.
Additional certifications or experience are a plus.
A minimum of 8 years’ experience demonstrating accounting acumen, career progression, increasing responsibilities and complexity of work.
Exceptional report writing ability and acumen to create impactful analysis.
Excellent presentation development skills utilizing PowerPoint and tables, charts, graphs, or other materials developed in other tools.
Strong systems technology skills, with demonstrated experience in advanced Excel, and other typical software applications and databases.
Thorough understanding of principles and techniques used in budget and forecast administration.

Key Success Factors

PhRMA seeks an independent, proactive self-starter who has strong analytical and communication skills paired with the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across PhRMA. The successful candidate for this role will demonstrate the following attributes:

Integrity – strong integrity, ethics, and compliance with legal, regulatory, and company rules and policies.
Proactive and results-oriented – thrive in ambiguous environments by independently driving initiatives with focus and determination. A resourceful problem solver, bringing clarity, structure, and momentum where guidance is limited, consistently delivering impactful outcomes.
People & Customer-oriented – respect for others, tactfully assertive, work well within a culturally diverse climate, sets and achieves stretch goals.
Organized – establishes clear accountabilities, active hands-on management style and follow through, and use of performance metrics to measure progress within established timelines.
Flexible & Reslilient – demonstrate agility for new systems and procedures, be adaptable to changing priorities, and able to work effectively under pressure.

Potential Salary

$141,100 - $197,600 per annum. Salary is commensurate with experience and other compensable factors.

Who we are
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country’s leading innovative biopharmaceutical research companies, which are laser focused on developing innovative medicines that transform lives and create a healthier world. Together, we are fighting for solutions to ensure patients can access and afford medicines that prevent, treat and cure disease. Over the last decade, PhRMA member companies have invested more than $800 billion in the search for new treatments and cures, and they support nearly five million jobs in the United States.

Connect with PhRMA
For information on how innovative medicines save lives, please visit:
www.PhRMA.org
www.Innovation.org
www.MAT.org
www.Facebook.com/PhRMA
www.Twitter.com/PhRMA

What we offer In addition to a highly competitive salary and bonus program, various opportunities for reward and recognition and a platform of extensive benefits, PhRMA is committed to the development and overall wellbeing of our team members. We offer traditional (medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, life, AD&D, LTD, STD, LTC) and enhanced benefits such as parental leave, a well-being program, on-site fitness facility, back-up care, an employee assistance program, and pre-tax commuting benefits. We also offer a robust 401k plan with employer contributions upon the first day of hire and immediate vesting, a generous paid time off plan, -ten paid holidays (plus inauguration day), half day Fridays preceding holidays, half day Fridays in the summer months and a paid winter break. As an organization, we work together in the office on Mondays through Thursdays and remotely on Fridays. We also work remotely in August.

We are committed to the growth and development of our team members and offer many learning opportunities including an integrated onboarding program, best-in-class leadership programming, tuition reimbursement, industry on-site and off-site training, and other management/professional development programs. Corporate social responsibility is also important to us at PhRMA. Our team members participate in community service activities, fundraising drives and charitable athletic events.

We are committed to supporting our family of professionals at PhRMA and strive to create programs that help our team members manage the challenges of balancing a fast-paced career with their own personal goals.

Equal Opportunity Employer

PhRMA provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, genetic information, disability, matriculation, political affiliation or veteran status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.

The job description contains an overview of the activities and duties for this role. Responsibilities may change and new ones may be assigned at any time.