Director, Legal Entity Planning & Forecast

Overview

This role is a key member of the Corporate FP&A team and owns the enterprise legal entity forecasting and reporting framework. The position translates the management forecast into a complete, accurate, and reconciled legal entity forecast. This forecast supports corporate tax planning and transfer pricing, legal entity cash flow and liquidity forecasting, and related accounting analyses.

The role partners with Corporate FP&A, Global Tax, Treasury, Accounting/Controllership, Finance Systems, and business finance teams across Commercial, R&D, Technical Operations, and G&A. It is a hands-on leadership position building governance, controls, and accountability for legal entity forecasting while ensuring a single reconciled view of the business across management and statutory/tax needs.

Responsibilities

• Establish and govern the enterprise Legal Entity Forecasting framework, including process design, calendar, ownership, controls, data requirements, and reconciliation to the management forecast
• Lead the translation of management forecasts into legal entity forecasts, ensuring entity-level P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow projections reconcile to the consolidated FP&A outlook
• Partner with Finance Systems/TM1 to design scalable forecasting capabilities that enable efficient capture and allocation of costs, intercompany activity, and other legal entity drivers across the enterprise
• Provide reliable legal entity forecasts and insights to Global Tax to support tax provision, effective tax rate forecasting, tax planning, transfer pricing, impairment/valuation analysis, and other accounting-for-income-tax requirements
• Partner with Treasury to assess legal entity liquidity and cash generation, identifying potential funding requirements, trapped cash, and implications for capital allocation and treasury risk
• Perform regular actual-to-forecast and forecast-to-forecast variance analysis by legal entity, identifying key drivers, emerging risks, and potential implications for Global Tax, Treasury, Accounting, and management reporting
• Establish governance and accountability across Legal Entity Finance Directors and functional teams to ensure completeness, accuracy, timely submissions, and resolution of forecast risks
• Provide management with actionable legal entity insights, highlighting forecast changes and emerging risks impacting Global Tax, Treasury, Accounting, and enterprise financial planning

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience across FP&A, corporate finance, accounting, controllership, transaction advisory, audit, or related finance disciplines in a complex multinational environment
• CPA preferred. Big 4 audit, accounting advisory, transaction services, or similar background is highly valued but not required if equivalent corporate experience is demonstrated
• Demonstrated experience with legal entity forecasting (statutory/entity-level planning), tax forecasting support, or integrated forecasting across FP&A, Global Tax, Treasury, and Accounting
• Strong understanding of US GAAP and consolidated financial statements; IFRS knowledge; knowledge of accounting for income taxes (ASC 740), impairment/valuation concepts, and the role of forecasts in external reporting
• Solid understanding of intercompany transactions, transfer pricing, and how operational activity flows through legal entities
• Experience with cash flow and liquidity forecasting and the ability to connect legal entity earnings, balance sheet movements, and cash requirements
• Experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry strongly preferred, with understanding of R&D, Technical Operations/manufacturing, Commercial, and Global Medical Affairs economics
• Public-company and multinational experience strongly preferred; SEC reporting exposure is a plus
• Advanced financial modeling and systems skills; TM1/Planning Analytics experience strongly preferred, with advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• People-management experience and demonstrated ability to influence across functions without direct authority
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex entity-level financial information into clear executive insights
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, results-focused, and comfortable balancing strategic process design with hands-on execution

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $167,500.00 - $227,500.00 annually
• Bonus/incentive eligibility: Non-Commercial roles are eligible to participate in the annual bonus plan; Commercial roles are eligible to participate in an incentive compensation plan
• Equity: All employees are eligible for discretionary equity awards and may voluntarily participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Benefits package includes: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness

Location

Not specified in the provided job description.