Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Overview

The P&EM (Partner & Emerging Markets) FTC Finance Manager is an exciting opportunity to support the Alnylam Commercial Finance Business Partner (FBP) Team. In this role, you will support the Head of Finance, P&EM and will partner with members of the P&EM Commercial and Medical Affairs Team.

The main tasks will be reporting monthly Revenue results, understanding OpEx trends, managing the P&EM Procure to Pay process, and assisting in ad hoc requests. 

Summary of Key Responsibilities

• Support financial planning efforts in the P&EM region (annual Investment Planning, regular Reforecasting and Long Range Planning).
• Analyze data to explain trends and variances from budget and forecast (both Revenue and OpEx).
• Prepare actual versus budget / forecast summaries and variance commentary.
• Support completion of month-end accrual accounting activities, expense budgets and expense forecasts.

• Ensure the accuracy of P&EM Commercial and Medical Affairs OpEx.
• Facilitate expense and revenue inputs into Alnylam’s financial planning software: Adaptive.
• Perform balance sheet account reconciliations as needed.
• Review monthly headcount actuals to ensure alignment between planned FTEs, vacancies, and heads in place.
• Help to drive process improvements and efficiencies, identifying potential cost saving to make budget tradeoffs.
• Seeks continuous improvements to FBP processes through process design, automation, improved communications, training and sharing of best practices.
• Assisting in the coordination of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance documentation and testing (as needed).
• Other ad hoc work as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required, Finance or Accounting field preferred
• 5 years’ minimum experience, preferably in a biotech environment and with a public company
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast paced international environment - flexibility, team oriented, collaborative work style and a positive attitude
• Fluent English is mandatory, Portuguese or Mandarin language skills a plus
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office required, Microsoft Excel a must
• Experience with SAP and Adaptive preferred
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with multiple functions and teams

About Alnylam: Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ALNY) has led the translation of RNA interference (RNAi) into a whole new class of innovative medicines with the potential to transform the lives of people afflicted with rare and more prevalent diseases. Based on Nobel Prize-winning science, RNAi therapeutics represent a powerful, clinically validated approach to treating diseases at their genetic source by “interfering” with mRNA that cause or contribute to disease. Since our founding in 2002, Alnylam has led the RNAi Revolution and continues to turn scientific possibility into reality.

Our culture: Our people-first culture is guided by our core values: fiercely innovative, open culture, purposeful urgency, passion for excellence, and commitment to people, and these values influence how we work and the business decisions we make. Thanks to feedback from our employees over the years, we’ve been fortunate to be named a top employer around the world. Alnylam is extremely proud to have been recognized as one of Science Magazine’s Top Biopharma Employers, one of America's Most Responsible Companies for 2024 by Newsweek, a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators, and a Great Place to Work in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and UK – among others.

At Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. We are dedicated to building an environment where employees can feel that they belong, can bring their authentic selves to work, and achieve to their full potential. By empowering employees to embrace their unique differences at work, our business grows stronger with advanced and original thinking, allowing us to bring groundbreaking medicines to patients.