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Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a global biopharma company whose purpose is to innovate to transform the lives of patients and their families. We are dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases — often with limited or no therapeutic options. We have a diverse portfolio of marketed medicines, including leading therapies for sleep disorders and epilepsy, and a growing portfolio of cancer treatments. Our patient-focused and science-driven approach powers pioneering research and development advancements across our robust pipeline of innovative therapeutics in oncology and neuroscience. Jazz is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with research and development laboratories, manufacturing facilities and employees in multiple countries committed to serving patients worldwide. Please visit www.jazzpharmaceuticals.com for more information.
Brief Description
The Associate Director, R&D Project Finance is accountable for the integrated financial management of the R&D project portfolio, providing a single, coherent financial view across the full project lifecycle, including early development, clinical trials, CMC, and enabling activities.
The role combines financial control, structured planning, and forward-looking insight, ensuring that R&D project financials are both accurate and governed, while also enabling clear, decision-ready analysis to support portfolio-level investment decisions.
Operating at the centre of R&D finance, the role drives alignment, consistency, and quality of financial outputs across project finance activities. This includes delivering robust forecasting, scenario analysis, and financial interpretation to support R&D Leadership, Project Teams, and Global Finance in understanding cost drivers, risks, and trade-offs.
This is not a traditional business partnering or reporting role. It focuses on ensuring financial integrity while providing integrated insight to support prioritisation and investment decisions across the R&D portfolio.
This position has direct line-management accountability for Clinical Trial Finance and Early Development Project Finance teams.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities
Integrated Project Financial Management
Financial Control, Governance & Integrity
Provide portfolio-level oversight of financial control across R&D projects, ensuring alignment of spend with contracts, policies, and accounting standards.
Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of financial outputs, including oversight of accruals and allocations, actuals reporting and close processes and alignment between actuals, forecast, and budget.
Maintain a robust control environment, ensuring consistency, compliance, and audit readiness across R&D Project Finance.
Performance Insight & Scenario Analysis
Deliver clear, decision-ready financial insights across R&D projects, including forecasts and full lifecycle cost views, key cost drivers and trends, and risks and opportunities.
Ensure modelling inputs are robust, consistent, and aligned to underlying financial drivers, enabling effective portfolio-level decision-making by R&I and Finance Business Partnering teams.
Contribute to the interpretation of modelling outputs, ensuring alignment with financial actuals, forecasts, and project-level realities.
Portfolio & Lifecycle Integration
Ensure financial alignment across the full R&D lifecycle, connecting early development, clinical trials, CMC, and enabling activities.
Provide a single, integrated financial perspective across the R&D portfolio, supporting consistent planning, prioritisation, and decision-making.
Systems, Data & Financial Interpretation
Process Standardisation & Continuous Improvement
Enhance consistency, transparency, and scalability of financial management practices, supporting efficient and reliable delivery of outputs.
Technology, Analytics & AI-Enabled Insight
these capabilities in practical ways to improve forecasting accuracy and consistency, enhance identification of risks, trends, and anomalies and strengthen the quality and timeliness of financial insight.
R&D Project Governance & Leadership
Provide leadership across Clinical Trial Finance and Early Development Project Finance teams, ensuring, consistency of approach, visibility of performance, and high-quality financial support across the full project lifecycle.
Team Leadership & Capability Development
Lead and develop the R&D Project Finance team, ensuring high-quality, consistent, and structured outputs.
Other duties as assigned.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
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Jazz Pharmaceuticals is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law.
The successful candidate will also be eligible to participate in various benefits offerings, including, but not limited to, medical, dental and vision insurance, retirement savings plan, and flexible paid vacation. For more information on our Benefits offerings : https://careers.jazzpharma.com/benefits.html.
