Associate Director, Finance Business Systems

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.   

 What sets Flagship apart is our ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet.   

Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. 

Flagship Pioneering is looking to hire a Associate Director, Finance Business Systems to its growing finance team. 

Responsibilities:

• Partner to the finance function as part of a centralized operations team and serve as the product manager for our internal financial systems
• Strategic partner to finance stakeholders to identify goals and challenges, translate functional requirements into operational & technical solutions
• Help implement, improve and maintain critical business technologies that support financial reporting processes (NetSuite), Procure to Pay tools, FP&A tools (NSPB), amongst others 
• Identify and implement business transformation efforts by understanding the current state and designing processes and technology that get us to a desired future state
• Maintain and support existing customizations to troubleshoot and resolve end user issues
• Configure and deploy role-based dashboards with KPIs and metrics
• Provide technical assistance to end-users along with holding training sessions on user adoption

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field
• 6+ years of financial systems operations, consulting, and/or equivalent experience including 2+ years technical/functional experience with NetSuite products
• NetSuite certification is a plus
• Strong problem-solving and analytical/critical thinking skills
• Knowledge of the overlap between operations, systems and external applications.
• Experience in managing projects from conception to delivery
• Experience with systems administration, database analysis, or other financial system integration support

To be successful in this role:

• You have a "roll-up-your-sleeves" entrepreneurial attitude
• You have strong communication, presentation, collaboration, and partnership skills
• You have effective time management, organization, and prioritization skills in managing multiple projects with proven ability to meet tight deadlines
• You work conscientiously and with minimal direction, using good judgment, taking initiative to accomplish short and long-range projects, and recommend actions with minimal direction
• You work as a team member, multi-task and be very flexible to adapt to the ever-changing work priorities and requirements of a dynamic, fast-growing company
• You are a strategic thinker with excellent analytical, critical thinking, problem-solving, interpersonal, and relationship building skills

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

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