The Organization
What's happening at Entrada Therapeutics? Entrada is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company aiming to transform the lives of patients by establishing a new class of medicines that engage intracellular targets that have long been considered inaccessible.
Our Endosomal Escape Vehicle (EEV™)-therapeutics are designed to enable the efficient intracellular delivery of a wide range of therapeutics into a variety of organs and tissues, resulting in an improved therapeutic index. Through this proprietary, versatile and modular approach, Entrada is advancing a robust development portfolio of RNA- and protein-based programs for the potential treatment of neuromuscular and ocular diseases, among others.
Our lead oligonucleotide programs are in development for the potential treatment of people living with Duchenne who are exon 44, 45, 50 and 51 skipping amenable. Entrada has partnered to develop a clinical-stage program, VX-670, for myotonic dystrophy type 1.
We are a tight-knit team of experts and leaders in both therapeutic development and rare diseases and are excited to grow and attract colleagues who are ready to join a high-energy, dedicated team that likes to get things done and dramatically improve the lives of patients and their families.
The Perfect Addition to Our Team
Entrada is in search of a Contract Manager, FP&A who is interested in joining a highly dynamic and intellectually challenging team. Our FP&A team is a key business partner throughout the organization and responsible for budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, scenario planning and management reporting. If you enjoy a fast-paced environment, the opportunity to build, innovate and collaborate, then this could be just the job for you!
The right candidate will possess the following skills and competencies for this position:
- In-depth financial expertise: Possesses a strong background in financial modeling, analytics, and scenario planning with good business acumen
- Reporting and Technology: Experienced and well-versed utilizing FP&A applications for data mining and transforming large data sets into a summarized form for clear and concise reporting
- Valued Business Partner: Demonstrates a high-level of interpersonal and communication skills for regular collaborations with Entrada business partners with a focus on customer service to exceed expectations
- Behavior & Culture: Able to work independently in a detailed and organized manner while managing complexity and multi-tasking. Adept at problem-solving and creative thinking with a capacity to provide pragmatic solutions and possess the drive and leadership to implement ideas to completion
The Opportunity
The Contract Manager of FP&A will report to the Executive Director of FP&A and be a contributing member of the FP&A team. This role will be a superuser of our FP&A systems and an excel modeling expert to provide support for the budget/forecasting process. Additionally, this role will be a direct business partner to organization, developing robust financial reporting and preparing thorough analyses of the Entrada business in order to better support the Company’s strategic priorities.
Responsibilities
Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Be a superuser of the FP&A application, Planful, for data validation, financial modeling, variance analysis, and reporting.
- Help facilitate the overall company budgeting/forecasting (Communication of timelines and expectations, template creation and data loading, reporting summarized financials.
- Assist in formulating a cohesive and concise story around business drivers behind financial data and identifying potential risks and opportunities.
- Manage reporting of Cash vs. GAAP forecasting and comparisons to actuals.
- Support regular preparation of financial slides for leadership teams, audit committees, and board meetings.
- Support updates to financial models supporting the company long range plans and various strategic scenario plans.
- Develop reporting around Headcount and CapEx.
- Work cross functionally with R&D FP&A team in support of Planful initiatives including budget load functionality, reporting capabilities, and hierarchy structure.
Business Partnering
- Partner with department leads to develop annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and monthly estimates.
- Prepare & analyze monthly financial management reports, meet with business partners providing operational reviews, and discuss risks & opportunities to their forecasts.
- Approve expenditures in line with budget/forecast, validate proper coding on requisitions, and escalate issues as required.
- Be the single point of contact for department leads with all financial related matters.
- Support monthly close process, including accruals, as needed.
- Provide ad hoc financial analysis to business partners and influence best decision making through financial data and analytics.
The Necessities
At Entrada, our passion for science, our devotion to patients and our values drives our behavior:
- Humanity - We genuinely care about patients and about one another.
- Tenacity - We are relentless and persistent in the pursuit of developing therapies for patients.
- Creativity - We are creative problem solvers.
- Collaboration - We are more than the sum of our parts.
- Curiosity - We have a growth mindset and push conventional thought and theory.
To thrive on our team, you will need to come with:
- Bachelor’s degree Finance/Accounting/Economics, advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum 3+ years of progressive financial analysis experience.
- Experience with Planful or Adaptive systems.
- Financial statement knowledge and understanding of US GAAP.
- Strong business partnering skills.
- Strong presentation and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment and integrate multiple points of view to make informed decisions.
- Independently motivated, detail oriented and good problem-solving ability.
- Excellent organizational skills, with an ability to embrace change and multi-task in an extremely fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communications skills and ability to influence across multiple functions.
- Advanced level user in MS office, particularly Excel and Power Point, and financial systems, including Planful, NetSuite and similar systems. #LI-Hybrid
- This role follows a hybrid working model, with office attendance 2-3 days per week minimum at the Entrada Therapeutics Headquarters in Boston, MA.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Entrada Therapeutics is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
Third Party Staffing Agencies
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