Finance Business Partner - Rare Blood

Job Title: Finance Business Partner - Rare Blood
Location: Cambridge, MA

About the Job
The Finance Business Partner supports strategic decision-making and performance analysis for the US Rare Blood Disorders Commercial teams including the General Managers and their leadership team. The successful candidate will be a proactive, analytical, and business-minded finance leader who thrives in a matrixed environment and partners effectively across Marketing, Go-To-Market-Capabilities, Field Sales, Patient Support Services, Market Access, and Procurement.  This role involves preparing and reporting financial and non-financial data, managing budgets and forecasts, and ensuring data quality, compliance, and adherence to internal controls. 

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.

About Sanofi
We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Main Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnership

• Serve as a strategic business partner to the US Rare Blood Disorders Commercial team, delivering insightful performance reporting and guiding budget and forecast processes.
• Evaluate operating expense investments in the context of brand lifecycle, resource allocation decisions, and performance drivers.

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Manage rolling forecasts and budget submissions, including template creation, TM1 system inputs, data validation, report generation, and presentation development.
• Analyze actual performance and communicate key drivers of variances to business and finance stakeholders.
• Prepare and manage month-end reports including P&Ls, OpEx, variance analysis, and detailed project expense reports for internal and Alliance use.

Reporting & Close Operations

• Own the month-end close process, including calendar coordination, data collection, accrual journal entries, and timely reporting to Corporate FP&A, Accounting, and Shared Services.

Process Optimization & Systems Expertise

• Act as a subject matter expert on financial systems (SAP, TM1, Procurement), maintaining cost center hierarchies, generating reports, and ensuring data integrity.
• Leverage AI-driven analytics to track sales and operating expense trends, detect anomalies, and enhance the precision of financial forecasts.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Support the US and Global Finance Teams with complex, cross-functional, ad-hoc projects and requests.

About You

Required Qualifications

• 4–7 years of experience in business finance, accounting, or a combination of both, with demonstrated focus on financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and month-end close.
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Solid understanding of core accounting principles and internal controls.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage proactively across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work autonomously and thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed organizational environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA or MBA
• Experience with TM1 Cognos and SAP
• Industry-related experience
  

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
• Support teams across science, medicine, and operations by building better systems, shaping bold strategies, and enabling innovation at speed.
• Make an impact across borders and functions, collaborating with leaders to turn complex challenges promotion or into real-world solutions Make your work count by supporting a company that brings life-changing treatments to millions — and is committed to doing right by patients, communities, and the planet.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.