Medidata: Conquering Diseases Together

Medidata is leading the digital transformation of life sciences, creating hope for millions of patients. Medidata helps generate the evidence and insights to help pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostics companies, and academic researchers accelerate value, minimize risk, and optimize outcomes. More than one million registered users across 1,400 customers and partners access the world's most-used platform for clinical development, commercial, and real-world data. Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, is headquartered in New York City and has offices around the world to meet the needs of its customers. Discover more at www.medidata.com.

Medidata AI is one of the largest AI companies exclusively dedicated to life sciences. It’s built on Medidata’s platform that includes the industry’s largest structured, standardized and growing clinical trial data repository consisting of 23,000 trials and 7M patients. Our team is composed of over 40 PhD/Masters statisticians, data scientists, analytical product leads, former FDA biostatisticians and computational genomicists

Your Mission:

As a Strategic Finance Director, you will own the financial planning, reporting, budget management, and strategic long range planning of a business unit. You will be responsible for preparing presentations for executive management, proactively analyzing trends and competitive benchmarking, evaluating acquisition targets, performing post merger integrations, ad hoc financial analysis, and driving cross functional initiatives. You will continually deliver new insights and recommendations that allow us to make the right decisions to propel the business forward.

Your Commitments:

To support the day-to day financial operations of your business unit, you will:

• Be a trusted finance business partner to leaders of assigned business areas and lead their budgeting, forecasting, long term planning, and analytical insights reporting.
• Prepare and lead the quarterly review of results meetings, which includes the business unit leaders, Medidata CEOs, CFO, and Finance leadership team. As part of these meetings, you will provide transparency into financial results and outlook, while also collaborating with cross functional teams (commercial finance, pricing, sales, business operations, R&D, delivery) to provide a comprehensive update and direction of the business.
• Provide transparency into actual results and forward-looking analyses, including foresight into investment needs, margin trends, and deviation from targets.
• Analyze historical performance to understand trends and key drivers. Make recommendations to improve performance and processes based on findings, and support the business in executing against the initiatives.
• Advance the strategic finance operating rigor with a focus on clear processes, automation, and organization wide support.

To support the strategic initiatives, you will :

• Articulate our strategy, vision, and operating model to support internal and external investor relation presentations.
• Design, prepare, and own key analytics initiatives such as business/economic/financial modeling, product/competitive landscape benchmarking, TAM analysis, and other data-driven analysis.
• Own the finance due diligence for all new business initiatives, including acquisition targets and post merger finance integrations.
• Work independently and continually push yourself and the business unit to explore new territories, while partnering cross functionally and within Finance to drive deeper understanding and support on key initiatives.

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The salary range posted below refers only to positions that will be physically based in New York City. As with all roles, Medidata sets ranges based on a number of factors including function, level, candidate expertise and experience, and geographic location. Pay ranges for candidates in locations other than New York City, may differ based on the local market data in that region. The base salary pay range for this position is $150,000 to $185,000.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Medidata provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a commission on the terms of applicable plan documents, and many of Medidata’s non-sales positions are eligible for annual bonuses. Medidata believes that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most

Equal Employment Opportunity

In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Medidata are based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Medidata is committed to a policy of non-discrimination and equal opportunity for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical or common conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, military service, application for military service, genetic information, receipt of free medical care, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. Medidata will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

Covid Statement

Our Company requires all U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to provide documentation of full vaccination, unless qualified for a medical, religious or state-required accommodation or otherwise exempt consistent with applicable law. Although accommodation requests will be considered (and granted where appropriate/possible), it may be determined that a candidate is unable to adequately perform the essential functions of the position without imposing an undue hardship due to customer requirements, staffing needs, or other business reasons. Definition of full-vaccination: Employees are considered to be fully vaccinated two weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine.