Societal™ CDMO

Major Duties/Responsibilities
• Leads FP&A function:
– Responsible for business plans, budgets, and forecasts timeliness, credibility, and reliability.
– Supports long-term financial and strategic business planning, including the five-year plan,
– Reviews FP&A work the team performs and ensures that information reconciles with all known sources such as IMS, customer forecasts, and ongoing interactions with department leaders.
– Maintains and oversees processes to monitor business performance and measure KPIs, including weekly flash reporting and payroll forecasting
– Ensures management reporting is provided within prescribed deadlines and establishes systems to facilitate this.
• Supports strategic transactions and other critical business functions:
– Provides insight and support for proposed mergers and acquisitions (M&A), debt and equity deals, and other strategic transactions
– Manages and negotiates risk management insurance programs
– Makes business improvement recommendations and tracks risks and opportunities.
– Provides timely and accurate support for customer proposals.
– Prepares and delivers presentations to executive audiences and creates models to evaluate transactions
• Oversees cost accounting and capital spending processes:
– Improves, maintains, and oversees cost accounting systems appropriate for the needs of the business that will deliver timely, accurate, and relevant information to management.
– Ensures delivery of high-quality cost reporting, including gross margin and variance analyses.
– Responsible for delivery of accurate valuations of inventory and fixed assets.
– Oversees capital expenditures to ensure they are financially justified.
• Supports external audits, SOX compliance, and public reporting in areas including, but not limited to, standard cost and variances, inventory, and CAPEX.

Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• • Partners with the Executive team to provide decision support, drive cost savings & efficiencies, and process improvements
  • Works with VP of Finance on development Bill of Materials, standard costs for raw
  materials inventories, and COGS. Partners with the manufacturing team to set and track progress to milestones leading to commercial production.
  • Works with Site Head and VP, Finance to maximize utilization of the manufacturing facility and
  associated assets.
  • Develops Return on Investment measures for Capital Expenditure projects and detailed tracking of all approved Capital Expenditures monitoring actual spending to budget.
  • Leads the creation of the budget process, including – developing, communicating, and driving the budget timeline, creating budget templates, creating/maintaining roll-up budget files, and preparing budget deliverables.
  • Creates standard and ad-hoc analysis metrics/KPIs, reporting tools, and dashboards that give insight into the performance of the strategic business opportunities.
  • A key partner in building, implementing, and administrating FP&A tools and systems that provide robust planning and reporting capabilities.
  • Develops a deep understanding of the business goals/objectives, understands the root causes of variances, and provides insightful, fact-based data analysis and scenario modeling to drive strategic and growth initiatives and influence business leaders’ business decisions.
  • Proactively partners with key and cross-functional stakeholders to lead operational reviews with senior business and finance leaders. Anticipates questions and advises on corrective actions based on the financial insight that drives organizational accountability and performance.
  • Designs and develops systems, procedures, and policies for the cost accounting systems. Leads the project management for NetSuite implementation for commercialization readiness cross-functionally.

Savencia Cheese USASavencia Cheese USA

New Holland, Pennsylvania

• Reporting to the CFO: Support the CFO & VP of Operations and site leaders in everyday decision-making and execution required to achieve financial targets:
  •Oversees plant controlling and consolidated accounting processes across three locations.
  •Responsible for developing enhanced decision-making on all product lines
  •Responsible for supporting the needs of the supply chain, manufacturing, and quality organization.
  •Plant budget setting and forecast ownership
  • Led the development of internal policies and procedures for inventory controls, cycle counting, and inventory reserves.
  •Leads manufacturing and materials management period closing process; improves financial close processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, and control. •Partner with the business to update forecasting, annual budget, and long-term strategic plan.
  •Responsible for monthly analysis of manufacturing and distribution variances to the prior year, forecast, and budget.
  •Scenario planning, ROI analyses, profitability, cost reduction, and growth opportunities.
  •Identify areas of profitability improvement through detailed analysis by customer, product line, etc.