Nearly 37 million Americans are currently affected by Chronic Kidney Disease. 37 million.

At Akebia we take that number very seriously and every day we come to work, with the purpose of bettering the lives of each person impacted by kidney disease and the renal community that serves them. 
Our tenacious, passionate employees’ challenge the status quo and work to develop unique therapeutics that have the potential to set new standards of care for people living with kidney disease.

This is life-changing work, and we are all in, are you?

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Director, Development Finance, the Sr. Financial Analyst will serve as a key business partner to the Development R&D functions, with significant visibility to leadership. This role is responsible for forecasting, financial modeling, and financial close activities, and will act as the primary Finance support for all R&D related functions.

The Senior Financial Analyst will play a critical role in providing financial insights, including accountability for analytical review and reporting of on-going Clinical Development activities, with a focus on accrual generation.  The role also contributes to broader organizational initiatives by supporting the development of the annual budget, financial forecasting, decision support and participation in enterprise-wide projects and initiatives, as required. 

Essential Functions & Duties:

This role encompasses a full range of corporate planning activities in the R&D area. This person will be a business partner with R&D functions to develop, execute, and measure a plan that is aligned with Akebia’s business strategy.  Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Partner with the business leaders across key functions, providing robust monthly and quarterly senior-level financial performance reporting
• Clearly communicate a cohesive and concise story around the business drivers behind financial data and implications on current and future results.
• Evaluate and assess key operational issues, risks and business drivers pertaining to budget, actual results, and forecast updates. Suggesting solutions and alternatives, as needed, to drive operational efficiencies, cost saving opportunities, capital expenditure decisions, etc.
• Key contributor to the monthly/quarterly forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy and support for assumptions used and data presented
• Proactive involvement in budgeting and planning process, including headcount planning and implementing appropriate review process
• Support and contribute to month-end close/reporting activities and variance analytics including accrual activities
• Collaborate with Finance team to continually review month-end reporting and other departmental processes, ensuring that management information is generated in a timely manner and to the highest standards of quality and accuracy
• Assist in the analysis of financial and operational results versus forecast and budget for assigned areas of responsibility, investigations of significant variances, and communication of findings to key stakeholders.
• Responds to various ad hoc queries from internal customers
• Support internal and external financial and management reporting
• Develop deep understanding of financial planning and ERP systems to enable and build reporting to support forecasting, close and variance analysis
• Drive process improvements and enhance data transparency across financial planning

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration
• 3+ years of Financial Planning & Analysis or Accounting experience
• At least 1 year in Pharma/Biotech Industry
• Experience in Clinical Trials/Finance R&D

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with MS Excel, PowerPoint and other typical software
• Experience with ERP and financial planning systems
• Experience working in a Sarbanes-Oxley compliant environment
• Experience developing financial analysis in support of biopharmaceutical business program
• Demonstrated strong collaboration skills to establish key partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to analyze and report complex information and synthesize to essential elements for clear understanding and presentation to key stakeholders.
• Possess excellent analytical, communication, decision making, organizational and interpersonal skills

Compensation:

Targeted Base: $96,984 - $119,803

*Base Compensation for this role will depend on a number of factors including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience, and may fall outside of the range shown. Base pay is only one component of the company’s total rewards package, all regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or the incentive compensation program (if applicable), as well as equity. Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, etc.

Are you an Akebian?

An Akebian is curious, empathetic, and values making connections to people and ideas. Akebian’s aren’t afraid of diving in and owning a process or a problem, because we all want to deliver a great solution. Akebian’s believe that we are better together because we are all working toward a common purpose – to better the life of each person impacted by kidney disease. Want to learn more about what it means to be an Akebian? Visit our website: www.akebia.com