Join us in redefining what it means to work for a CRO. Working at Rho, you’ll be joining a team who take healthcare and clinical research personally, with shared experiences that drive a passion to heal, cure and solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges.

At Rho, we’re committed to you just as you’re committed to us. You’ll have the opportunity to experience a thriving company with real stability - financial, workforce, and corporate, which has created a safe environment to innovate and develop over a long and rewarding career. With a collaborative team of smart, talented, and positive people, you’ll be celebrated and respected for your expertise and given the freedom to think creatively, challenge the norm, and problem-solve.

We are currently hiring a Director, Financial Planning and Analysis to join our team! Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis is a newly created position responsible for leading the Company’s budgeting, forecasting, long-range financial planning, metric development, bank compliance and general analysis. This role will provide the executive leadership team with accurate and timely financial information necessary for making business, operating and strategy decisions. Our private company is looking for a Director of FP&A, preferably with CRO experience, to help prepare for sustained growth. The role is on a hybrid schedule with time in our Durham, NC office, as necessary. This is a highly visible position and requires excellent presentation skills. This role will also work closely with Business Operations to develop reporting cadence and assist in optimizing business performance.

Our Finance Team will tell you, joining Rho has been one of their best career moves in terms of contentment, financial rewards and career growth, which is why we have such stability in the group!

• Daily, weekly, monthly internal reporting and analysis
• Metrics development
• Backlog, book-to-bill and utilization report maintenance
• Work closely with Business Operations
• Lead the annual budgeting process
• Update forecasts and report variances
• Assist in long-range planning model development and maintenance
• Analyze current monthly financial results versus data and forecasts
• Bank/Credit agreement reporting
• Cash and balance sheet financial modeling
• Assist with reporting development
• Create and deliver executive presentations on various initiatives
• Participate in and possibly lead various infrastructure and systems development projects
• Make recommendations on financial and operational improvements
• Identify key trends

Graduate Degree in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics or similar discipline along with 7+ years of progressive accounting, finance or business analysis experience including:

• Minimum of 2 years direct management experience
• CRO experience preferred, as is international experience and exposure to Federal contracting and reporting nuances
• Excellent skills with reporting and analysis tools such as Power BI, Power Query, Excel, Powerpoint, Spotfire, etc.
• Experience with SQL or database development, a plus
• Experience with NetSuite or Adaptive planning & reporting helpful

Other Skills and Competencies:

• Strong Communicator: Demonstrate written, verbal and presentation skills to help showcase the successes of your work and Rho’s.
• Committed to Quality: Every job at Rho requires an attention to detail, a deep understanding of our high-quality scientific standards, and an ability to care about every outcome.
• High-Character: Contribute to our collaborative culture with honesty and integrity. At Rho, we value a strong team spirit highlighted by loyalty, accountability, and mutual trust. We work smart together, we work hard together, and we laugh together. We take responsibility for our actions, forgive honest mistakes and respect one another.
• Critical Thinker: Rho values thinking. Draw on your native ingenuity, sharpened and enhanced by our intellect, training, and experience. We evaluate situations and opportunities objectively and incisively; we then craft novel, practical solutions.
• Agile and Adaptable: Rho values the ability to change quickly. We eagerly anticipate, respond to, and take advantage of changes in our environment. We embrace risk but manage it by planning, accepting, and learning from both failures and successes. The opportunity to adapt and evolve energizes us.

A few more things to know about us:

Benefits: Rho provides a comprehensive benefits package for all benefit-eligible employees, which includes medical, vision, dental, HSA, FSA, EAP, life & disability insurance and 401(k). All employees are eligible for paid time off, holidays, parental leave and bereavement leave.

Diversity and Inclusion: As a global, full-service CRO driven by our collective experiences, we view each of our backgrounds as a vital component in our formula for success and we strive towards building a more equitable, inclusive, and diverse environment for our employees every day. By valuing and tapping into each employee’s unique and different personal experiences, we are able to uplift employee dignity and belonging, foster more strategic creativity, and more quickly arrive at breakthrough solutions that help us heal the world.

Flexibility: We encourage a work-life balance that allows employees to bring their best selves to work while being passionate about their lives outside work.

As required by pay transparency laws in some states, Rho provides the range of starting compensation (annual salary or hourly rate) it reasonably expects to pay for a given role. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to role responsibilities and location as well as candidate skill set and level of experience. The range of starting pay for this role is $170,000-$210,000 per year.

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