THE OPPORTUNITYVir Bio is seeking a Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis to lead enterprisewide financial planning and serve as a core member of the Company's strategic and operational leadership. This role is accountable for driving capital allocation, longrange financial strategy, and performance management across the organization, with direct impact on enterprise value creation and strategic decisionmaking.
The VP, FP&A will own the Company's planning and forecasting architecture, valuation framework, and financial decision support, partnering closely with the executive team, functional leadership, and project teams. This is a highly visible, handson leadership role requiring strong judgment, deep biotech financial expertise, and the ability to translate complexity into clear, actionable recommendations.
This role is based in Vir's San Francisco headquarters with an expectation of at least three days per week in the office.
WHAT YOU'LL DO- Lead the enterprise FP&A function, establishing short and longterm financial plans that align capital deployment with the Company's highestvalue strategic priorities
- Own companywide budgeting, forecasting, and longrange planning processes, with accountability for performance against plan and recommended corrective actions
- Serve as a senior finance business partner to executive leadership, providing financial leadership on clinical development, manufacturing, partnerships, commercial and key strategic initiatives
- Partner with Accounting on collaboration and partnership financials, including quarterend activities, external funding applications, reporting, and partnerfacing budget management
- Maintain and continuously refine the Company's internal valuation and scenariomodeling framework
- Lead, develop, and scale a highperforming FP&A team responsible for portfolio investment analysis and strategic financial support for R&D
- Advance financial analytics, reporting, and systems to support executive, Board, investor, and partner decisionmaking along with assisting with internal and business development valuations
- Design and implement process and reporting enhancements that improve transparency, discipline, and decision quality
WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU BRING- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related discipline, with fifteen or more years of progressive finance leadership experience
- MBA and/or CPA, or equivalent advanced credentials strongly preferred
- Deep experience supporting biotech or pharmaceutical R&D organizations, including development economics and portfolio decisionmaking
- Demonstrated expertise in valuation, scenario modeling, and capital allocation in complex and uncertain environments
- Commercial financial planning expertise in the Biotech or Pharma industry
- Proven executive leadership skills, including building and leading teams, influencing senior stakeholders, and partnering crossfunctionally
- Strong systems orientation with experience operating sophisticated planning, forecasting, or ERP platforms
- Sound knowledge of US GAAP, internal controls, and SOXcompliant environments
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WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE OFFERThe expected salary range for this position is $300,000 to $350,000. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors.
Vir Biotechnology's compensation and benefits are aligned with the current market and commensurate with the person's experience and qualifications. All full-time employees receive a package that includes compensation, bonus and equity as well as many other Vir Biotechnology benefits and perks such as health and welfare benefit plans, non-accrual paid time off, company shut down for holidays, commuter benefits, 401K match and lunch each day in the office.