Job title: Project Finance Business Partner – Immunology and Inflammation Development - Alliance

Location: Morristown, NJ / Cambridge, MA

About the job

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.

Job Summary:

Support strategic development projects. You will work closely with Global Project Teams to drive financial strategy, guide investment decisions, and ensure accurate project forecasting. This is a high-impact role where your insights help shape the future of Sanofi’s therapeutic pipeline and contribute to bringing life-changing therapies to patients.

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:

• Financial responsibilities over the following perimeter: 3 strategic projects, and any additional I&I development collaborations.
• Manage early and late-stage development projects with multiple life-cycle management indications.
• Serve as the primary finance contact and provide financial insights and decision support to Global Project Heads (GPH), Global Projects Teams (GPTs) and Finance.
• Oversee governance preparation and deliverables across multiple global project teams, including Therapeutic Area Review Committee, Development Working Group, and Integrated Development Commercial Council.
• Drive comprehensive project valuations, including full cost tables, net present value (NPV) and productivity index (PI), investment analysis, commercial potential, competitive threats and risk assessments for governance decision-making.
• Prepare financial position papers and finance representation in governance meetings.
• Lead financial planning cycles (strategic plan, budget, forecasts, actuals) and translate
• Identify financial risks and opportunities and support cost optimization initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional finance teams to consolidate clinical and non-clinical cost.
• Ensure comprehensive compliance with internal control and financial/accounting principles.
• Lead alliance quarterly actual reporting and annual development budget and reforecast reporting in collaboration with Junior Project Finance Business Partners.
• Alliance Financial Development Working Group (FDWG) lead; participation in Joint Development Committee (JDC), Joint Finance Committee (JFC) and Joint Steering Committee (JSC).
• Identification and mitigation of contractual issues.
• Lead alliance development internal and external audit activities.
• Preparation and review of alliance quarterly actual reporting and related monthly accrual.
• Preparation and review of alliance development budget and reforecast reporting and related internal budget / strategic plan submissions.

About You

Educational Background:

• Master’s Degree / MBA or CPA Preferred, scientific background preferred

Professional Experience:

• 10 years of relevant professional experience in Finance/Accounting and R&D exposure

Major skills and competencies:

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills with the ability to synthesize complex financial data into clear recommendations, influencing cross-functional teams.
• Excellent business partnering and communication skills; comfortable advising senior
• Proven ability to coordinate and lead financial planning processes.
• Comfortable working in a matrixed, global and fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• Proficiency in financial modeling, forecasting, and valuation techniques
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Main Interactions:

• Global Project Head / Manager and Core team members
• R&D Portfolio Strategy team
• Commercial and New Product Planning teams
• R&D Governance committees (TARC, DWG, IDCC)
• Regeneron Finance counterparts
• Alliance Management and Alliance Finance teams
• Alliance Governance committees (JDC, FDWG, JFC and JSC)
• FP&A, Controlling Operations and Technical Accounting finance teams
• Internal and external auditors

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 promotion or 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.

Sanofi US Services 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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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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US and Puerto Rico Residents Only

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally inclusive and diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; natural or protective hairstyles; 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.

North America Applicants Only

The salary range for this position is:

$161,250.00 - $232,916.66

All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs. Additional benefits information can be found through the LINK.