FP&A Consultant, Biopharma R&D

Role Overview

• Serve as the primary engagement manager and trusted advisor for assigned client implementations and FP&A consulting engagements.
• Lead in-depth discovery sessions to understand client R&D portfolios, clinical trial designs, cost drivers, planning assumptions, and governance models.
• Partner with client stakeholders to define FP&A requirements across budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning, and long-range planning.
• Guide clients through complex FP&A questions with clarity and confidence, ensuring outputs are decision-ready and defensible.
• Provide expert guidance on clinical trial FP&A topics including trial-level budgeting, rolling forecasts, enrollment-driven cost models, scenario analysis, and portfolio prioritization.
• Design and validate assumptions related to investigator fees, CRO costs, pass-throughs, milestones, country and site-level variability, and multi-currency trials.
• Ensure Condor configurations support executive-level visibility into spend, variance drivers, and forward-looking projections.
• Help clients move from static, spreadsheet-based planning to dynamic, system-driven FP&A workflows.
• Configure Condor software to support client-specific FP&A models, workflows, and reporting requirements.
• Validate configurations through walkthroughs, scenario testing, and stakeholder reviews to ensure accuracy and usability.
• Collaborate closely with internal product, engineering, and customer success teams to address gaps and continuously improve delivery.
• Identify repeatable FP&A patterns and best practices that can be standardized across implementations.
• Build long-term, trusted relationships with FP&A and R&D finance leaders, earning credibility as an expert who understands their day-to-day realities.
• Support clients in articulating insights and recommendations to executive leadership, including R&D, finance, and corporate strategy teams.
• Represent Condor as a thought partner in clinical trial FP&A during strategic discussions and ongoing client engagements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. MBA or equivalent advanced degree strongly preferred.
• 8 or more years of progressive FP&A experience, with significant hands-on responsibility for clinical trial or R&D financial planning.
• Direct experience working within biopharma organizations or in advisory roles supporting biopharma R&D finance teams.
• Deep understanding of clinical trial cost structures, forecasting methodologies, and portfolio-level planning challenges.
• Proven experience supporting executive decision-making through high-quality financial analysis and insights.
• Demonstrated success in a consulting, advisory, or highly client-facing FP&A role.
• Ability to communicate complex financial models and assumptions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong executive presence with the credibility to engage senior FP&A and finance leadership as a peer.
• Experience managing multiple client engagements while maintaining exceptional quality and responsiveness.
• Experience implementing or working with FP&A, financial planning, or analytics platforms, ideally in an R&D or clinical context.
• Advanced financial modeling and analytical skills, with the ability to structure complex, multi-variable scenarios.
• Comfort working cross-functionally with technical teams to translate FP&A requirements into scalable system configurations.
• Client-first mindset with a passion for improving how biopharma organizations plan and invest in R&D.
• High standards for analytical rigor, accuracy, and professionalism.
• Self-directed, intellectually curious, and comfortable operating in a fast-growing, high-expectation environment.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity participation
• Comprehensive employee benefits, including 100% company-paid health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) plan with a 3% company match that vests immediately
• Unlimited PTO