<p>FP& A Activities and Responsibilities Overview</p><p><br></p><p>Budget vs. Variance Reporting: Prepare and analyze budget versus actual reports, providing insightful variance analysis to identify key drivers, risks, and opportunities for improvement.</p><p>Budget Support & Monitoring: Collaborate with cost center managers across 12 centers, some complex, others straightforward, to assist with budget creation, monitor spend, and ensure financial targets are met.</p><p>Process Improvement: Leverage and enhance processes for budgeting, reporting, and data quality. Continuously seek efficiencies and automation opportunities in daily FP& A operations.</p><p>Systems & Tools: Utilize EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) tools such as Smartview, along with business intelligence platforms (e.g., Domo, similar to Tableau) to gather, analyze, and visualize data.</p><p>Data Analysis & Quality: Focus on improving data accuracy and integrity; serve as a “data ninja” ensuring clean, reliable data for informed decision making.</p><p>Financial Reporting Support: Work closely with the business manager for financial operations, providing timely and relevant inputs for monthly reporting processes including cash flow, balance sheet, and income statement. Responsible for supporting—not directly owning—the reporting package but ensuring completeness and accuracy of provided data.</p><p>Stakeholder Interactions: Regular meetings with cost center managers to review performance, resolve issues, and communicate findings. Partner with business line managers to support operational and financial objectives.</p><p>Scope of G& A Analysis: Focus on general and administrative costs, excluding salary and benefits for easier management. Analytical efforts are directed at expense categories where actionable insights can be generated.</p>
<p>Join our dynamic finance team as an FP& A Manager-Cost/Sales Analyst, where you will own varied responsibilities including FP& A, Sales Analysis, and Product Costing. As the FP& A Manager you will provide financial planning and analysis to support financial growth, provide insight to support strategic decision-making, partner with department heads to develop budgets and forecasts, prepare and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, generate financial reports for management, create financial summaries, and dashboards and reports to monitor key KPI’s, including financial due diligence and integration planning. This position offers the opportunity to combine analytical insight with operational impact-bridging finance, sales, and production to deliver meaningful cost structures and optimizing price strategies.</p><p><br></p><p>Major Responsibilities</p><p>· Lead the budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes, ensuring alignment with company goals and operational strategies.</p><p>· Analyze cost structures, margins, and sales trends to identify profit improvement opportunities.</p><p>· Develop and maintain financial models to support business planning, scenario analysis, and decision-making.</p><p>· Prepare and present monthly and quarterly financial reports highlighting key performance indicators (KPIs), variances, and business drivers.</p><p>· Provide detailed cost analysis and margin reporting by customer, region, or product line.</p><p>· Monitor inventory levels, standard costs, and variances; work with accounting to ensure accurate cost reporting.</p><p>· Support new product launches and business initiatives with financial impact analysis and ROI assessments.</p><p>· Drive continuous improvement in FP& A processes, tools, and reporting capabilities.</p><p>· Serve as a key financial advisor to senior leadership, helping guide data-informed strategic decisions.</p>
<p>Developmental stage NNJ biotech company seeks an Associate Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, reporting to Director of Finance and CFO. High growth company with good prospects and top management team is adding to staff for this role. Candidates should have 10+ years of FPA experience, hands on exposure, roll up your sleeves attitude, with a passion and drive for the pharma/biotech industry. Strong modeling skills, strong presentation skills, able to work cross functionally with operations/sales/R& D/IR/Accounting/HR. Great opportunity to join a forward thinking team with a lot of growth opportunities. </p>
<p>We are looking for an experienced FP& A Supervisor to join our team. In this role, you will lead financial planning and analysis activities, ensuring accurate budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes. You will collaborate closely with department managers and executive leadership, providing insights to drive strategic decision-making and operational excellence.</p><p><br></p><p>Financial Planning/ Budgeting</p><p>• Prepares annual budgets and periodic reforecasts for all operating divisions.</p><p>• Works with department managers to understand income and expense driver.</p><p>Financial Reporting</p><p>• Prepares periodic financial statements and executive analysis, comparing actual to PY and forecast.</p><p>• Prepares monthly executive summary and quarterly board reports.</p><p>• Prepares cost center statements and gross margin/run rate reconciliations.</p><p>• Meets with department heads to present and explain trends & variances.</p><p>• Oversees, assists, and participates in year-end external audits.</p><p>• Prepares and/or reviews account analyses and reconciliation tied to General Ledger</p><p>• Prepares and posts all reporting reclass entries.</p><p>• Prepares quarterly bank covenant compliance calculation.</p><p>Projects/ Adhoc</p><p>• Work with entire finance team & operations departments to develop models which evaluate deals, acquisitions, divestitures.</p><p>• Work with HR to manage and track annual bonus targets and performance.</p><p>• Ensure optimal staffing (training, terminate, promote, reassign) for the FP& A department.</p><p>• Mentor, coach and counsel staff.</p><p>• Set goals and objectives, measure performance, report to executive management. </p><p><br></p><p>Benefits:</p><p>Medical/Dental/Vision</p><p>PTO</p><p>401k</p>
<p>Stable, South Jersey client is seeking an experienced, highly collaborative Director of Financial Planning & Analysis to build, lead, and own the FP& A function for the organization. This role will consist of providing assistance with variance analysis, strategic insights, providing financial guidance by managing the monthly budgeting process, preparing monthly and quarterly financial reporting, creating complex financial models through process analysis, forecasting revenues and expenditures, and developing process improvements. Ideally, we are looking for someone who has designed planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes from the group up in a publicly traded or SOX-compliant environment.</p><p><br></p><p>How you will make an impact</p><p>· Manage the annual budget and strategic planning process</p><p>· Provide quantitative analysis of finances</p><p>· Conduct thorough research of historical financial data</p><p>· Analyze business opportunities and investments</p><p>· Lead efforts to business unit profitability</p><p>· Create revenue generating, strategic initiatives</p><p>· Develop and gain deep business understanding of financial drivers</p><p>· Meet appropriate business deadlines</p><p>· Monitor performance indicators for profit and loss</p><p>· Establish financial policies</p>
<p>We are looking for a skilled Financial Analyst to contribute to the financial planning and analysis efforts of our organization in Monmouth County, New Jersey. In this contract to permanent position, you will play a key role in supporting strategic decision-making through detailed financial forecasting, budgeting, and performance analysis. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical abilities, a deep understanding of financial principles, and exceptional communication skills.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Compile and distribute financial reports that highlight company volume trends and key performance metrics.</p><p>• Conduct variance analysis of income statements comparing actual results to budgets and prior years.</p><p>• Collaborate with department leaders to provide insights into financial data that drive business strategies.</p><p>• Take an active role in the development of annual budgets and periodic financial forecasts.</p><p>• Assist in creating presentations for quarterly and annual Board of Director meetings, as well as end-of-period executive reports.</p><p>• Prepare ad-hoc financial reports to support various business needs, including acquisitions, financing, and divestitures.</p><p>• Analyze data and perform comparative analyses to recommend actionable insights.</p><p>• Develop innovative techniques for financial planning to enhance decision-making support.</p><p>• Utilize statistical tools to evaluate financial data and effectively communicate findings.</p><p>• Work efficiently in a dynamic environment while managing multiple priorities.</p>
We are looking for an experienced FP& A Consultant to join our team in Florham Park, New Jersey. In this contract position, you will play a critical role in managing financial planning and gross-to-net analytics for the pharmaceutical industry. This role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure financial accuracy, enhance forecasting models, and provide actionable insights to guide business strategies.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Develop and maintain detailed financial forecasting models to project revenues, expenses, and profitability.<br>• Conduct gross-to-net analysis, including validating and booking accruals such as chargebacks, rebates, administrative fees, Medicaid, and product returns.<br>• Collaborate with Sales, Commercial, and Contracts teams to gather and verify data impacting pricing, customer agreements, and product launches.<br>• Prepare and present financial analysis to senior management to support strategic decision-making and scenario planning.<br>• Reconcile accounts to actuals, identifying variances and trends to ensure accurate financial reporting.<br>• Create and maintain dashboards and reports to monitor gross-to-net metrics effectively.<br>• Support monthly and annual close processes by ensuring deductions and accruals are accurate and well-documented.<br>• Partner with cross-functional teams to refine compliance procedures and enhance automation tools such as Power BI and Excel-based trackers.<br>• Provide financial impact analysis for pricing or contract changes and assist in strategic planning efforts.<br>• Identify and recommend process improvements to optimize financial operations and documentation.
