Our Mission

Aurinia exists to make a difference in transforming people’s lives by delivering innovative treatments to patients living with serious, rare autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. From the earliest days of the company, we’ve applied an inventive, thoughtful, and responsible approach to developing therapies for people in need. Through our dedication, we relentlessly preserve and execute with integrity to reach our main objective, to improve patients’ health. In addition to driving adoption of our approved therapy, LUPKYNIS™, for appropriate people with lupus nephritis, we are also actively pursuing a broader portfolio of innovative drugs for autoimmune disease.

Our strategy leverages the skills and knowledge of our incredible team and our deep experience in principled drug development and commercialization. Aurinia provides a working environment where individuals can thrive in a professional, creative, and inspirational atmosphere. Together, we are driven to make an impact for our patient communities as advocates and partners in innovation.

Aurinia is seeking a Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) to join the growing Finance team. Reporting to the VP, Financial Planning & Analysis, the Manager role is a highly visible and critically important position within the company. The Manager will support Aurinia’s financial planning and business partnering processes and will serve as the main finance point of contact for the R&D organization. With a focus on the R&D team, the Manager will provide support to key stakeholders in the annual budget and quarterly rolling forecast updates and will lead the preparation of monthly/quarterly financial performance reviews as well as reporting on key financial metrics and results. This role will ensure finance support across all R&D functions and will partner with the accounting team to ensure accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual results. The candidate should have experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and should be able to contribute immediately leveraging past deep experience and be ready to hit the ground running. The candidate should be a hands-on individual who can interface with all levels of the company in a collaborative manner.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead finance business partner to the R&D teams, partnering with departments heads on the annual budget and quarterly forecast process and analyzing and understanding drivers and business needs, summarizing, and preparing messaging for leadership.
• The specific functional areas this role will support include R&D, CMC and Supply Chain.
• Lead the monthly analysis of financial results versus budget and forecast and investigate significant variances, communicating findings to the departments within the R&D teams.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial performance reporting packages for R&D Leadership, the CFO and the team that highlight key results.
• Perform monthly reviews of open contracts with R&D department heads, obtain accrual information and partner with accounting in the booking of journal entries to ensure all contracts are recorded properly.
• Provide daily operational support to the key internal stakeholders, including but not limited to ad-hoc analysis, contract reviews to ensure inclusion in the forecast and contract coding guidance.
• Work closely with HR on R&D headcount planning and tracking.
• Serve as a key team member supporting the VP of FP&A in the annual long-range financial planning process.
• Assess and anticipate department head needs and identify new opportunities.

 

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Finance or Accounting
• CPA or CFA strongly preferred
• Minimum 7 years of successive experience across various financial disciplines with demonstrated success, preferably within a high-growth environment and at least 2 years of recent FP&A experience
• Experience within the pharmaceutical industry is required
• Excellent project management skills, with demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional projects to completion
• Deep experience specific to detailed expense forecasting and financial performance reporting
• Proven ability to work independently, adhere to specific timelines and deadlines and execute on goals
• Proven teamwork and collaboration skills, cross functionally and cross culturally
• Able to effectively manage competing priorities with strong sense of urgency and work ethic
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to travel approximately 5% of the time to Victoria, BC or Edmonton, Alberta

All candidate information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.