Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Moderna is a leading company in mRNA technology, and they are seeking a Senior Manager for Financial Planning & Analysis within their Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls function. The role involves managing financial planning cycles, ensuring accurate forecasts, and driving insights for decision-making across CMC operations.
Responsibilities
- Manage the CMC FP&A planning cycles and variance analysis
- Serve as the primary point of contact for Corporate FP&A on CMC results, forecast updates, and key business drivers
- Develop planning calendars, align cross-functional inputs, and ensure timely, high-quality deliverables
- Create CMC Admin cost forecasts and model the allocation of overhead and material costs submitted by other CMC FP&A partners
- Deliver performance insights and executive-ready reporting materials highlight drivers, risks, and opportunities
- Own and maintain the CMC long-range plan model in partners with the broader CMC FP&A team, including ensuring consistent assumptions and supporting scenario analysis, and model enhancements
- Build sensitivity analysis to support investment decisions and trade-offs across the CMC portfolio
- Own and manage CMC’s FP&A data hierarchy, ensuring integrity and consistency across planning and reporting
- Establish governance processes for hierarchy changes, mapping, and documentation, partnering with relevant system/process owners as needed
- Ensure planning and reporting structures support efficient analysis and decision-making across CMC including driving insights into therapeutic P&Ls
- Ensure tight alignment between FP&A and Accounting, including monthly close readiness, accrual understanding, and variance root-cause analysis
- Partner with Accounting to ensure consistent definitions, reconciliations, and reporting views that support both management reporting and financial controls
- Identify and implement process improvements that strengthen transparency, accuracy, and cycle times
- Drive standardization and continuous improvement across planning templates, reporting packages, and analytics
- Improve forecasting accuracy through enhanced driver tracking and disciplined assumptions management
- Contribute to broader Finance transformation efforts by streamlining workflows and improving data quality and usability
Skills
- 5+ years of progressive experience in Finance within the life sciences industry, including financial planning & analysis, and/or financial operations roles
- Bachelor's degree required in Finance, Business or related areas
- Experience with Oracle planning and reporting software (e.g. Essbase/EPM)
- Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology industry experience
- Strong business acumen: proven ability to effectively scrutinize and challenge assumptions and interpret the strategy and priorities of the organization in financial terms
- Excellent project management / leadership skills with demonstrated track record and ability to engage teams to work together towards common deadlines
- Strong presentation skills to deliver succinctly and effectively deliver recommendations to senior leaders, frames complex concepts
- Prior experience working in a matrixed environment; experience coordinating processes and delivering results through the collaboration of related teams
- Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing conditions and different cultures
- Exceptional attitude, diligence, and ability to motivate teams to do the same
- Understanding of operational dynamics and the external environment
- A desire to make an impact as part of a high-growth, transformational company that is Bold, Relentless, Curious, and Collaborative
Benefits
- Best-in-class healthcare coverage, plus voluntary benefit programs to support your unique needs
- A holistic approach to well-being, with access to fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support
- Family planning benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support
- Generous paid time off, including vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown
- Savings and investment opportunities to help you plan for the future
- Location-specific perks and extras
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