Sr. Manager, Finance
- Employer
- Nektar Therapeutics
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Start date
- Mar 7, 2019
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- Discipline
- Administration, Finance
- Required Education
- Bachelors Degree
- Position Type
- Full time
- Hotbed
- Biotech Bay
Job Details
The Manager, Finance will be responsible for budgeting, accounting, reporting, and finance.
Responsible for the following finance and accounting activities:
- Budgeting - Prepares budgets and forecasts, including the annual operating plan (cash basis and GAAP basis, as needed), 3-year and 5-year plans, etc. and analyzes budgets, including model assumptions, received from external collaboration partners.
- Accounting - Prepares various levels of analyses to support the monthly/quarterly close process, including preparing study accruals and any related documentation, through collaboration with internal and external business partners.
- Reporting - Prepare budget versus actual reviews to facilitate both internal reporting to business unit managers and external reporting.
- Finance - Manages fiscal expenditures through budget versus actual, purchase requisition and contract (including study budget grid) reviews, etc.
A minimum of a Bachelors degree in a Finance or Business discipline is required. A CPA or advanced degree, such as an MBA is preferred. Equivalent experience may be accepted. A minimum of 8 years of previous financial planning or accounting experience, preferably in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry, is required. May require a minimum of 5 years previous management experience. A thorough understanding of principles of corporate finance is essential. Must be able to demonstrate a high attention to detail with an ability to independently prioritize and organize work assignments. Previous corporate accounting and/or budgeting and planning experience are required. Must possess excellent computer and analytical skills. Good communication skills, both oral and written, are required. Previous experience with JDE ERP as well as reporting and planning software platforms are highly desired. Strong Excel and modeling skills are required.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to race, ethnicity, gender, veteran status, or on the basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Nektar Therapeutics will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in the manner proscribed by the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Company
Nektar Therapeutics is a research-based development stage biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops innovative medicines in areas of high unmet medical need. Our R&D pipeline of new investigational drugs includes treatments for cancer and auto-immune disease. We leverage Nektar's proprietary and proven chemistry platform in the discovery and design of our new drug candidates. Our success is rooted in four key elements: our track record reflected by a portfolio of successful approved medicines which emanated from our chemistry platform and are made available globally by our pharmaceutical partners, our unique research and development pipeline of new investigational medicines in cancer and immunology, our proprietary and proven science and technology approach that fuels our discovery efforts and our team of dedicated scientists, clinicians and employees focused on bringing new medicines to patients with debilitating diseases.
Stock Symbol: NKTR
Stock Exchange: NASDAQ
- Website
- http://www.nektar.com/
- Phone
- 415-482-5300
- Location
-
455 Mission Bay Blvd South
San Francisco
California
94158
United States
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