The Finance Manager – R&D Oncology serves as a key finance business partner to the Oncology Clinical Development Team and Portfolio Program Management. This role provides financial planning, analysis, and decision support to R&D leadership, ensuring the integrity of clinical spend forecasting and enabling sound resource allocation.
Responsibilities
Conduct scenario planning and costing of clinical studies to support portfolio submissions, key strategic governance meetings, and business development opportunities.
Monitor study progress and revise study estimates with timely and relevant causals rationale for senior management. Maintain integrity of financials and strong internal control environment for clinical study accounting (ROSS accounting).
Adhere to the forecasting best practices and utilization of the R&D clinical cost calculator and cost categories established by the R&D forecasting COE and elevate unique or unusual situations.
Develop a deep understanding of clinical trial cost interdependencies to provide clear, actionable financial guidance to clinical and finance partners.
Provide relevant variance analysis for each planning cycle; develop meaningful management reporting schedules and ensure accuracy and predictability of results.
Prepare and present financial insights in discussions with R&D Therapeutic and Finance leadership, highlighting the components of clinical spend and the implications of changes to enable informed decision-making.
Serve as a strategic finance business partner to the Oncology Clinical Development Team and Portfolio Program Management, building trusted relationships that drive sound financial planning and decision-making.
Play an active role in R&D business partner meetings, providing decision support through data-driven analysis and contributing financial perspective to inform and shape decisions related to funding and resource use.
Proactively collaborate with the R&D organization to deliver on financial commitments and identify and deliver strategic and growth value drivers.
Develop insights and recommend actions to manage any deviations from plan; ensure coherent financial analysis and alignment across functions through the identification of opportunities to invest, reduce costs, and mitigate risks.
Execute and manage all aspects of monthly, quarterly, Plan, Long Range Plan (LRP), and Latest Business Estimate (LBE) cycles as required.
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