{"id":1317530,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cytokinetics-associate-director-fpa-2","title":"Associate Director, FP&A","company":{"id":1919595,"name":"Cytokinetics","domain":"cytokinetics.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/cytokinetics","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Radnor, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":182700,"max":213150,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":213150},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"GDPR","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-02T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-02","last_verified_at":"2026-11-06T00:19:17Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":65,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":65},"description":"Cytokinetics is a specialty cardiovascular biopharmaceutical company, building on its over 25 years of pioneering scientific innovations in muscle biology, and advancing a pipeline of potential new medicines for patients suffering from diseases of cardiac muscle dysfunction.\nThe Associate Director, FP&A (Commercial Finance), will serve as the strategic finance business partner to Cytokinetics' Commercial organization during the company's transition to a commercial-stage biotechnology company. This role will support financial planning and analysis and own commercial operating expenses and headcount for assigned areas, partnering closely with Sales, Marketing, Patient Treatment Experience, Commercial Operations, Accounting, and Finance leadership.\nThe role will bring financial insight, sound judgment, and proactive business counsel to help Commercial leaders make informed investment and operating decisions. The ideal candidate is an experienced FP&A professional with commercial-stage biotechnology or pharmaceutical experience who can quickly establish credibility, operate independently, and deliver strategic insight that enables informed launch and growth decisions.\nKey Responsibilities\nServe as the primary finance business partner to assigned Commercial functions, including Sales, Marketing, Patient Treatment Experience, Commercial Operations and Strategy providing financial insight and counsel while partnering with Finance leadership on broader Commercial priorities.\n\nLead the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and long-range plan for commercial operating expenses and headcount.\n\nDeliver periodic budget-to-actual variance analysis, explaining spend drivers to functional leaders and Finance leadership and recommending actions to improve forecast accuracy and resource allocation.\n\nProvide decision support on commercial investment trade-offs, including field force sizing, promotional and market access investment, launch readiness, and business cases for new indications or projects. Develop analyses and recommendations that enable Commercial and Finance leaders to evaluate risks, opportunities, and trade-offs.\n\nServe as a trusted advisor to Commercial leaders, independently identifying financial risks and opportunities, challenging assumptions, and translating business priorities into actionable financial recommendations.\nPrepare executive-level presentations and analyses for Finance leadership and senior business leaders, including inputs to the Commerial Leadership team, the executive leadership team, and the Board, including inputs to operating expense guidance and earnings materials.\n\nBuild scalable planning infrastructure appropriate for a newly commercial company - models, dashboards, planning system reporting, and repeatable close and forecast processes.\n\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline; MBA a plus.\n\n10+ years of progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience, including commercial finance business partnering.\n\nCommercial-stage biotechnology or pharmaceutical experience.\n\nDemonstrated experience supporting Commercial functions on operating expense and headcount management.\n\nAdvanced financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting skills, with the ability to build structure in a rapidly scaling environment.\n\nStrong executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior business leaders through data, financial insight, and sound judgment. Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint proficiency.\n\nDemonstrated use of AI-assisted tools in daily business processes to accelerate analysis, reporting, and decision support.\n\nPreferred\nProduct launch or first-years-of-commercialization experience at a newly commercial biotech.\n\nFamiliarity with specialty pharmacy and specialty distributor channels, Commercial, Medicare and Medicaid rebate programs, 340B, and copay assistance.\n\nLocation: Based in Radnor, PA (Hybrid, 3 days minimum on-site)\nPay Range:\nThe expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Radnor, PA is $182,700-213,150. The base pay offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Base salary is just one component of our competitive total compensation package, which includes equity in the form of stock options and/or restricted stock units, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage, 401k retirement benefits with employer match, learning and wellness stipends, and paid time off. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction of employment.Our employees come from different backgrounds, and we celebrate those differences. We are looking for the best candidates for our open roles, but do not expect applicants to meet every qualification in order to be considered. If you are excited about what you could accomplish at Cytokinetics and believe you can add value to our team, we would love to hear from you.\nPlease review our General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) policy PRIOR to applying.\nOur passion is anchored in robust scientific thinking, grounded in integrity and critical thinking. We keep the patient front and center in all we do - all actions and decisions are in service of the patient and their caregivers. We champion integrity, ethics, doing the right thing, and being our best selves.\nFraud Warning: How to Identify Impersonated Cytokinetics Job Postings and Offers\nRecently, there have been fraudulent employment offers being sent to candidates on behalf of Cytokinetics. Please be advised that all legitimate offers from Cytokinetics will come directly from our official email domain (Cytokinetics.com) and will only be made after completing a formal interview process.\nHere are some ways to check for authenticity:\nWe do not conduct job interviews through non-standard text messaging applications\n\nWe will never request personal information such as banking details until after an official offer has been accepted and verified\n\nWe will never request that you purchase equipment or other items when interviewing or hiring\n\nIf you are unsure about the authenticity of an offer, or if you receive any suspicious communication, please contact us directly at \n\nPlease visit our website at: www.cytokinetics.com\nCytokinetics is an Equal Opportunity Employer","description_format":"text","description_chars":6492,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Equity","Insurance coverage","Restricted stock units","Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Biotechnology","Health Care","Biologics & Biosimilars"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T19:55:28Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 6","filings_12m":6,"filings_prev_12m":10,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":142500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-29T16:27:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":54,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.904,"p_room":0.6,"age_days":64,"expected_fill_days":72,"reasons":["conf:2","urgency","win:late","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":213150,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cytokinetics-associate-director-fpa-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cytokinetics-associate-director-fpa-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T05:15:39Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":9151,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1919595},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1919595"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcytokinetics-associate-director-fpa-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcytokinetics-associate-director-fpa-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcytokinetics-associate-director-fpa-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/cytokinetics-associate-director-fpa-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcytokinetics-associate-director-fpa-2"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1317530}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"cytokinetics.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1317530},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}