Senior Manager, Finance & FP&A

Location: Boston                 

Reporting to: Associate Director, Finance

Job Summary

Orchard Therapeutics North America is searching for a motivated and resourceful, critical thinker to join our dynamic finance team.  The Senior Manager, Finance & FP&A will be a key member of the North America (OTNA) Finance team.  The position requires an in-depth knowledge of accounting, internal controls, and both internal and external financial reporting.  The ability to work in collaborative manner with peers, auditors, strategic partners, and to effectively communicate with various levels of management and external service providers is a must.  Candidates should possess a “can do” attitude and desire to continually enhance and improve financial processes and embrace a strong team environment.

Key Elements and Responsibilities

·         Contribute to the accurate and timely month-end close process.  Activities include recording journal entries, Review account reconciliations and roll-forwards, and perform detailed account analysis.

·         Deliver monthly financial reporting and associated business insight to drive sound financial and strategic decision-making

·         Interact with subsidiaries and other corporate departments to coordinate the timing and the contents of all deliverables.

·         Oversight of Purchase order process, ensuring proper coding and maintenance

·         Collaborate with Legal Department to ensure newly executed contracts are properly filed and liaise with business to ensure timely creation and proper expense coding of related purchase orders

·         Areas of responsibilities include G&A departments (Legal, Information Technology, Human Resources, Business Development Facilities and Finance)

·         Assist in the preparation of monthly financial reporting to parent company

·         Support financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting processes across departments

·         Assist where required in the design, implementation and maintenance of internal controls

·         Assist with the periodic external audits and reviews and liaising with external auditors.

·         Assist with the preparation of data and reports as and when required by the business

Requirements

Required knowledge

·         Bachelor or Masters’ in Accounting,

·         Knowledge with accounting systems, experience with NetSuite and Concur preferred

·         A Pharmaceutical or Biotech background preferred

·         Strong Excel experience is essential with the ability to demonstrate a clear understanding of lookup functions, Pivot tables and similar functions/ reports with the ability to handle high volume data.

Skills & Abilities

·         A strong communicator with the ability to communicate through the use of different means to a broad range of individuals at all levels.

·         A very organized individual with a high level of attention to detail with excellent timekeeping; required to meet internal and external deadlines to desired standard.

·         A motivated self-starter that is quick to learn and, takes responsibility for day to day activities with minimal input and direction.

·         Professional, hard-working team player with a can-do attitude that acts responsibly in an ethical manner