Planning
OneStreamHyperionSAP BWScenario modelingDCF / IRR / NPV
Who you'll work with
Your strategic finance partner
Nick Thakkar is the founder of Long Range Advisory and a strategic finance executive with more than 15 years of experience across AbbVie, Neurocrine Biosciences and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. His experience spans long-range planning, forecasting, financial modeling, valuation, capital allocation and executive decision support across life sciences and healthcare.
He founded Long Range Advisory to bring sophisticated financial planning and decision-support capabilities to growing biotechnology, pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations without requiring them to build the same capabilities entirely in-house.
Why Long Range Advisory exists
The same decision comes up again and again in a development-stage company: which programs get funded, which get delayed, and which get partnered out. The teams that get it right have one thing in common — a long-range plan their leadership actually believes in. Long Range Advisory exists to build that plan.
How it works
It starts with the decision, not the spreadsheet. Assumptions are agreed in writing, and the model is built in Model Lab so a leadership team can open it, read it and maintain it themselves. Every figure traces back to an assumption on one screen — no black boxes, and no dependency on anyone else to run it.
Professional journey
From corporate FP&A at AbbVie to commercial finance at Neurocrine and Regeneron
- 2010
AbbVie
Corporate Finance
Helped establish FP&A capabilities for a $500M business unit, creating the budgeting processes, reporting structures and financial ownership behind them. Supported SEC reporting — 10-Q, 10-K, 8-K and quarterly earnings releases.
- 2016
Razorfish
Sr. Financial Analyst
Implemented an AI-driven CRM tool for revenue and profitability forecasting, and redesigned the reporting and analysis processes behind margin, cost and client profitability.
- 2017
Addus HomeCare
Finance Manager
Supported an ERP implementation and standardized global reporting processes, improving data consistency and operational visibility across the business.
- 2018
AbbVie
Finance Lead
Built the FP&A function from the ground up for a $500M business unit, then led annual budgeting, long-range planning and quarterly forecasting across a $750M+ portfolio. Prepared public-company reporting and automated the recurring packages behind it.
- 2020
Neurocrine Biosciences
Finance Manager
Led enterprise financial planning — annual budgeting, long-range planning and latest estimates for executive leadership. Built an award-winning long-range planning model incorporating valuation, ROI, DCF, IRR and NPV analysis.
- 2024
Regeneron
Finance Manager
Led enterprise FP&A across SG&A, R&D and Corporate functions, covering more than $1B in operating expense and providing scenario modeling and strategic analysis for executive leadership and capital allocation decisions.
- Today
Long Range Advisory
Founder
Founded Long Range Advisory to give growing biotech and pharmaceutical organizations the executive-level planning, valuation and capital allocation work that normally sits inside a full corporate FP&A function.
Working with leadership teams
The part a model cannot do
Executive communication
Presenting financial insight in a concise, decision-oriented format for senior leaders and board audiences.
Stakeholder management
Building trust and alignment across Finance, Operations, R&D, Commercial, HR and IT.
Business partnering
Balancing financial discipline with the strategic and operational view the business actually runs on.
Change management
Supporting adoption of new planning processes, reporting tools and operating rhythms.
Systems & tooling
The planning stack we can walk into
Which environment a finance leader already knows decides how much of the first month is spent learning the system instead of the business.
Analytics
Power BITableauExcel (VBA, data modeling)KPI dashboards
ERP & automation
SAPWorkdayNetSuiteSalesforce CRMPythonSQL
See the model before you talk to anyone.
Six programs and twenty years of cash flow, read-only. Free account, no card, nothing to install.