Director,DiseaseStrategyFinance

**Job Description** Vertex is growing at a rapid pace with challenging and exciting opportunities for motivated professionals who are keen to contribute to the Vertex mission to invest in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious diseases. Our finance function is integral to achieving our company’s strategic goals, providing critical insights and analysis in support of decision-making across the organization. By joining our function, you will become part of a fast-moving, forward-thinking team to support the ongoing growth of a leader in the biotechnology industry. The **Director of FP &A, DST Finance** is a key member of Vertex's Financial Planning & Analysis organization, providing financial direction and strategic insights to cross-functional leaders. This role will partner closely with **Disease Area Executives** for assigned**Disease Strategy Teams** (“DSTs”) to help define and deliver against our goals. This role will provide strategic decision support, influence decisions and identify opportunities to invest, save costs and mitigate risks on a global basis. The role will also conduct corporate-level cross-functional valuations, modeling and other analysis to help drive our decision-making process. **Key Duties and Responsibilities:** * Represents Finance in DSTs across the organization, coordinates appropriate financial analyses, and drives the development of reporting and analytics for each program. * Provides strategic decision support to enable clear understanding of financial impacts of potential business cases and/or planning scenario for multiple diseases at different stages of development. * Partners with Disease Area Executives, Program Managers and a wide range of core members from different areas of Vertex represented on Disease Strategy Teams. * Coordinates with other members of the finance team including Corporate, BD, R&D, Commercial, BSMO Finance as well as other CFO organization areas such as Accounting, T