Vertex Pharmaceuticals · 1 day ago
Finance Reporting & Analysis, Center of Excellence, Senior Manager (Contract)
Boston, MA
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$80/hr - $90/hrVertex Pharmaceuticals is a leading company in the biotech sector, and they are seeking a Senior Manager for Finance Reporting & Analysis in their Center of Excellence. This role is pivotal in driving data-driven decision-making and automating financial reporting processes to enhance business outcomes.
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Responsibilities
Develops Functional reporting capabilities, to drive efficiency and add value for the global finance teams and, ultimately, to enable self-service reporting of critical business KPIs by empowered senior leaders
Supports the transformation of the function through analytics, by Identifying data opportunities to solve business challenges. Collaborates with Functional leadership to identify and prioritize key financial analytics initiatives. Define and scope the finance use cases by:
Developing and implementing analytics models:
Understand business use cases and determine the appropriate algorithms for a given situation
Develop, test, and validate various AI/ML models, then deploy the AI/ML models into production and integrate them with existing data and IT systems
Minimize bias in algorithms using testing methods like cross-validation, A/B testing, bias assessments and stress-testing
Effectively communicate insights to finance stakeholders:
Build reports, dashboards, and visualizations to democratize data insights
Use data storytelling to deliver business insights to improve stakeholder understanding and uptake
Clearly communicate underlying methodologies and decision-making processes of models and algorithms providing more transparency for stakeholders
Continuously evolve processes and tools related to data analysis, visualization and storytelling to improve decision making. Providing best in class automation – via Power Bi, Snowflake, SQL and Python
Maintain governance and compliance, ensure that data and algorithms driving key business decisions are transparent and free of bias. Apply quality control, data validation and cleansing processes to new and existing data sources, working alongside DTE organization to ensure adherence to Enterprise requirements
Elevates analytical capabilities to incorporate higher level concepts including quantitative and statistical analyses to deliver increased value to the organization and incorporate predictive insights
Serves as an inspirational and engaging Data lead who motivates and engages through demonstration of our Vertexian culture & values
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in business, Finance or Accounting
Typically requires a number of years of relevant experience in an analytics role demonstrating strong technical and analytical skills and a track record of success working in a team-based environment or the equivalent combination of education and experience
Must have a deep understanding of financial systems, expertise in analytics and presentation/visualization of information and a strategic vision of future ways of working for finance professionals
Proficiency in data management, data mining, data analytics, data reporting and quantitative analysis
Programming: Proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Python)
Data manipulation: Experience with data manipulation libraries and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Microsoft Co-Pilot)
Preferred
MBA or Professional Qualification preferred, CPA a plus
Experience in life science industry preferred, experience in biotech or pharma industries a plus
Experience in leading cross-functional teams and processes; able to manage through ambiguity and influence with and without authority, and work effectively with senior leaders
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills including visualization capabilities and an ability to 'tell a story'
Exceptional analytical, quantitative, and financial modeling skills
Possesses a continuous improvement mindset, with flexibility and ability to adapt to change
Intellectually curious with an ability to develop innovative reporting and/or analytics to drive business outcomes
Forward thinking and change-oriented with an ability to understand how to pace change for effective adoption
Strong formative understanding of statistical and mathematical concepts, theories and applications such as linear algebra, probability theory, calculus, algorithms and data structures
Strong understanding of algorithms such as linear regression, logistic regression, regularization, decision trees, clustering algorithms, linear GAM (Generalized Additive Models), Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and matrix factorization techniques
Benefits
Overtime pay, in accordance with federal and state requirements
Company
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is focused on the discovery and development of small molecule drugs for the treatment of serious diseases.
Founded in 1989
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$657.31MKey Investors
Janssen Belgium
2024-07-10Post Ipo Secondary· $1.11M
2022-05-17Post Ipo Equity· $50M
2009-12-03Post Ipo Equity· $443M
Leadership Team
Reshma Kewalramani
CEO and President
Nina Devlin
Senior Vice President, Chief Communications Officer
Recent News
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