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This role will partner with Finance Business Partners and business stakeholders to support core financial planning, reporting, and operational finance activities, including monthly accruals, committed budget tracking, variance analysis, and forecast development and uploads. The position requires strong analytical skills, rigorous attention to detail, and the ability to translate financial data into insights that support business decision-making.\nThis is a hybrid role and will primarily be based in Cambridge, MA.\nKey Responsibilities\nMaintain committed and uncommitted budget trackers, open purchase order reports, and key expense tracking tools to support visibility into spend and budget availability.\nPrepare and review monthly accruals in partnership with Accounting, Finance Business Partners, and budget owners to help ensure expenses are recorded accurately.\nBuild monthly budget-to-actual reporting for Commercial and Medical Affairs, including preparation of variance analyses, expense summaries, and other reporting materials for Finance and business stakeholders.\nResponsible for analyzing variances between headcount actuals and budget to ensure accurate headcount reporting and forecasting.\nBuild, maintain, and update forecast templates and planning files; support the development of reforecasts, annual investment plans, and long-range planning inputs.\nUpload forecast inputs into Alnylam’s financial planning systems and ensure data is complete, accurate, and aligned with assumptions.\nDrive continuous improvement opportunities across planning, reporting, and expense management processes, with a focus on scalability and data integrity.\nCreate ad hoc financial analyses, reports, and process support materials as needed to support Commercial, Medical Affairs, and FP&A priorities.\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree required; degree in Accounting, Finance or related field preferred.\nMinimum of 3 years of relevant finance, accounting, or FP&A experience.\nUnderstanding of key accounting concepts relevant to expense management (accruals, prepaid expense recognition, capex vs. opex)\nHighly proficient in Microsoft Excel\nStrong attention to detail and demonstrated ability to prepare accurate financial analyses, reports, and planning inputs.\nAble to manage competing priorities with tight deadlines.\nDemonstrated written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with Finance and business partners.\nAbility to work sensitively with confidential material.\nPreferred but not required:Experience with Adaptive financial reporting system and SAP ERP.\nPharmaceutical or Biotech industry experience.\nProven ability to make manual processes more system-driven and scalable.\n\nAbout Alnylam\nWe are the leader in RNAi therapeutics - a revolutionary approach with the potential to transform the lives of people with rare and common diseases. Built on Nobel Prize-winning science, Alnylam has delivered the breakthroughs that made RNAi therapeutics possible and are just at the beginning of what’s possible. Our deep pipeline, late-stage programs, and bold vision reflect our core values: fierce innovation, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, open culture and commitment to people. We're proud to be a globally recognized top employer, where an authentic, inclusive culture and breakthrough thinking fuel one another.\nAt Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, pregnancy status or related conditions, genetic information, veteran or military status, marital or familial status, political affiliation, age, or any other factor protected by federal, state, or local law. Alnylam is an E-Verify Employer.\nBefore applying, please review Alnylam's Candidate Privacy Notice regarding how Alnylam handles Personal Data you provide with your application for employment.\n#LI-MH1 #LI-Hybrid\nThe pay range below reflects the full-time base salary range we expect to pay for this role at the time of posting. Base pay will be determined based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, and education. This role is eligible for an annual short-term incentive award (e.g., bonus or sales incentive) and an annual long-term incentive award (e.g., equity).\nAlnylam’s robust Total Rewards package is designed to support your overall health and well-being. We offer comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, a lifestyle reimbursement program, flexible spending and health savings accounts and a 401(k)with a generous company match. Eligible employees enjoy paid time off, wellness days, holidays, and two company-wide recharge breaks. We also offer generous family resources and leave. 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