Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis - Commercial

General Scope and Summary

Sage Therapeutics is seeking a highly-motivated, creative, resourceful, integrative thinker to join our growing Finance team. This highly visible role will support many aspects of Financial Planning & Analysis for the company with immediate emphasis on building support for our expanding Research, Development, and Commercial organizations. This individual will partner with key stakeholders outside of Finance including scientists, project managers, and clinicians. In addition, the candidate will be a contributor across Finance and the broader organization in leading and supporting initiatives to build a multi-product CNS company.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide CMC, Commercial, and Medical Affairs budget owners visibility to spending trends, financial commitments, and progress against goals; actively help the budget owners manage their spend to plan.

• Provide financial leadership: drive engagement with business partners on effective budget and forecast management and following each month and quarter end financial close; provide effective reporting and analysis, including explanation and support of variances of actual to budget/forecast.

• Prepare monthly financial and operational reporting package with variance analysis to forecast, latest estimate, risks/ops, and material drivers to business changes.

• Identify opportunities to improve current processes to eliminate manual process and focus on the analytics, transforming data into useful insights.

• Lead the Latest Estimate process for one or more functions, working closely and collaborating with the business to ensure fiduciary accuracy through actual reporting and close coordination with the business to right size anticipated future spend for the current year.

• Partner with others in Finance & Accounting to ensure effective utilization of systems, application of excel models/tools, reporting and information sharing, and overall compliance with internal controls.

• Support broader organization through ad hoc projects and analysis.

Experience, Education and Specialized Knowledge and Skills

Must thrive working in a fast-paced, innovative environment while remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful, and efficient. Must have excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to develop important relationships with key stakeholders, good conflict management and negotiation skills, and the ability to analyze complex issues to develop relevant and realistic plans and recommendations. 

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.

• 3+ years of work experience in finance or accounting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated strong collaborative skills and effective in working with cross-functional team members.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Demonstrated analytical skills and ability to balance strategic thinking with bottoms-up detailed analysis.

• Strong Excel skills and hands-on experience with analysis and modeling.

• Exposure to budgeting and forecasting preferred.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

• Embrace our Core Values: Put People First, Improve Lives, Cultivate Curiosity, Do Right, and Forge New Pathways.

• Excitement about the vision and mission of Sage.

All Sage new hires will be required to provide documentation that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or, if not, that they are legally entitled to an accommodation due to a medical condition or a sincerely held religious belief.  Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and Sage will consider, among other things, whether the proposed accommodation would create an undue hardship.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.

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