Director Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

What's happening at Entrada Therapeutics? Our mission is to transform the treatment of devastating diseases by establishing a new class of medicines to engage intracellular targets that have long been considered inaccessible and undruggable.

Our Endosomal Escape Vehicle (EEV™)-therapeutics represent a fundamental advancement in the field of intracellular therapeutics. They 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 our EEV platform, we are building a diverse pipeline of RNA-, antibody- and enzyme-based programs for the potential treatment of neuromuscular, immunological, ocular and metabolic diseases, among others. 

Our lead oligonucleotide programs include ENTR-601-44 and ENTR-601-45 for the potential treatment of people living with Duchenne who are exon 44 and 45 skipping amenable, respectively, as well as our partnered candidate ENTR-701 targeting myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1). 

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. 

Entrada is in search of a Director, 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:

• Leadership capabilities: Builds alignment across functions ensuring team is focused on moving towards a common purpose
• 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 Director of FP&A will report to the Executive Director of FP&A and be a leader within the R&D FP&A space. This role will be a direct business partner to the R&D organization (Research and Development & Clinical), developing robust financial reporting and preparing thorough analyses of the Entrada business in order to better support the Company’s strategic priorities. Additionally, this role will be a superuser of our FP&A systems and an excel modeling expert to provide support for the budget/forecasting process.

R&D Finance Business Partner

• Partner with R&D department leads and planners to build an in depth understanding of the business, bridge to financial drivers and support financial decision making for R&D teams
• Develop annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and monthly estimates in order to help them deliver on their short and long term goals
• Prepare & analyze financial management reports, meet with business partners providing operational reviews, and discuss risks & opportunities to their forecasts
• Formulate a cohesive and concise story around business drivers behind financial data and identify potential risks and opportunities
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis to business partners and influence best decision making through financial data and analytics
• Approve expenditures in line with budget/forecast, validate proper coding on requisitions, and escalate issues as required

R&D Financial Planning and Analysis

• Drive the overall R&D budgeting/forecasting, including communication of timelines and expectations, template creation and data loading, reporting summarized financials
• Lead Vertex Collaboration quarterly forecast reviews summarizing drivers of variances to latest forecasts and required changes to forecasts
• Support updates to financial models supporting the company long range plans and various strategic scenario plans
• Manage reporting of Cash and GAAP forecasting and comparisons to actuals
• Lead monthly close process, including accruals, CFO update deck, as needed for R&D departments
• Prepare financial slides for leadership, audit committees, and board meetings
• Seek opportunities for process improvements, proactively propose solutions for operational efficiencies, and lead/drive projects to completion
• Be a superuser of the FP&A application, Planful, for data validation, financial modeling, variance analysis, and reporting

At Entrada, our passion for science, our devotion to patients and our values drive 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 8+ years of progressive financial analysis experience, including biotech or pharma experience and public company reporting
• Relevant day to day experience supporting R&D business areas demonstrating an understanding of the Discovery, Clinical, and CMC functions
• Financial statement knowledge and understanding of US GAAP
• Strong business partnering skills that engages in a collaborative way
• Track record of innovation, process improvement, and problem solving
• Detail oriented individual with the ability to identify the “big picture”
• Ability to work independently in a detailed and organized manner while managing complexity and multi-tasking
• Strong presentation and communication skills with the ability to clearly and succinctly articulate thoughts and complex matters
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment and integrate multiple points of view to make informed decisions
• Excellent project management skills and an ability to embrace change and multi-task in an extremely fast-paced environment while meeting deadlines
• 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
• Experience with the design, development and optimization of financial forecasting systems and ERP-driven data with budgeting and forecasting

By becoming a team member here at Entrada, you’ll have access to competitive health, dental, and vision coverage, as well as life insurance, and short term and long-term disability insurance. We value work life balance, you'll benefit from discretionary time off, paternity leave, and an excellent 401(k) package. We also offer a generous transportation stipend to commute as you wish. Our location in the vibrant and growing Seaport District is close to all the best that the city of Boston has to offer.

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.

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