Finance Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Lead FP&A: Partner with budget leads and leadership on financial analysis, budget-to-actuals reporting, and deep-dive analyses.
• Drive financial operations: Manage agreements and payments for vendors, payroll, grants, and investments. Work directly in Ramp to ensure data accuracy. Establish and revise program budgets and grants.
• Lead financial reporting and compliance: Oversee preparation of financial statements, manage relationships with accounting, audit, and tax partners to complete taxes and annual audits.
• Oversee balance sheet and treasury: Collaborate on monitoring and reporting for the investment portfolio to support decision-making and risk management.
• Continuously improve financial systems for efficiency.
• Teach and learn from the finance team; flex to emerging needs across finance and operations.
• (If converted) Own FP&A and finance operations long-term, scaling systems while managing budgets and grants for internal projects and external grantees.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience in financial management and strategic finance, preferably in startups; ideally has led finance and accounting functions previously.
• Motivated by enabling transformative science.
• Exceptional relationship orientation, verbal and written communication skills.
• Gives and receives feedback well.
• Comfortable operating outside a fixed job description in a startup-like environment.
• Eagerness to use AI and new technology to improve effectiveness.
• Bias to action, experimentation, high standards, ownership, and tenacious problem solving.