About this Role

Reporting to the Head of Corporate Functions Finance, this Finance Manager will be responsible for all aspects of Accounting and FP&A supporting corporate functions (Legal, HR, Finance, Business Development, Corporate Administration and US Benefits). The candidate would be viewed as a trusted business partner, providing decision support by challenging and enlightening the business as to financial impacts of their decisions.

What You'll Do

• Drive financial discipline in the organization and deliver flawless and timely execution of all accounting close and control processes, with commitment to the highest standards of integrity and accuracy.
• Oversee and assist in all aspects of accounting and planning, including:
  • Management reporting of monthly and quarterly results
  • Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning for respective functions
  • Present results and highlight risks and opportunities to functional business partners to ensure informed decisions can be made about activities throughout the year
• Provide finance insights to make best decisions for organization and for Biogen
  • Drive efficiencies in processes and resource allocation across functions
  • Partner with business stakeholders to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the business cases and financial records.
  • Drive continuous process improvement to strive for automation and improved accuracy wherever possible
• Oversee and assist in all aspects of accounting, including:
  •  Monthly, quarterly and annual close processes
• Adhoc projects within Finance Organization, including but not limited to audit remediation, training, tracking and process improvement

Who you Are

• High sense of urgency with the ability to meet tight deadlines while maintaining the flexibility to adapt to changing priorities
• Proven leadership and interpersonal skills – the ability to collaborate well with others and work cross-functionally across the organization.
• Ability to work well in teams and to build organizational relationships across all levels of the organization.
• Strong analytic abilities and business acumen, including ability to tell an impactful story leveraging data, metrics, and visualization to establish recommendations and convey conclusions
• Decisive and accountable
• Comfort dealing with ambiguity and a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment

Required Skills 

• Minimum 5 years relevant experience in Finance, accounting or audit.
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline
• Distinctive quantitative, critical thinking and modeling skills
• Advanced experience with Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong combination of financial and analytical skills
• Strong oral, presentation and written communications and the ability to build productive working relationships with various levels, functions and teams
• Attention to detail, yet proven ability to maintain an “80/20” mindset

Preferred Skills  

• Familiarity w/Oracle, Hyperion and Business Objects preferred
• CPA would be advantageous in this role

Why Biogen?

Our mission to find therapies for neurological and rare diseases is a unique focus within our industry and this shared purpose is what connects us as a team. We work together to overcome obstacles and to follow the science. We are resilient as we strive to make an impact on our patients’ lives and on changing the course of medicine. Together, we pioneer. Together, we thrive.