Finance Manager, R&D
Finance Manager partnering with R&D and technical leaders to own budgets, forecasts, financial models, reporting, and headcount planning in a fast-growing health technology environment. The role requires 6+ years of finance experience, strong spreadsheet modeling, operational execution, and the ability to apply AI to finance workflows.
About the job
Responsibilities
R&D Finance Business Partnership
- Partner with technical department leads across R&D and related teams on budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and performance reporting.
- Develop an understanding of organizational priorities, operations, and key financial drivers.
Forecasting, Budgeting, and Modeling
- Own detailed R&D forecasts and budgets as business needs evolve.
- Build and maintain financial models translating operational and technical inputs into financial outputs.
- Create models and frameworks for new products, technologies, vendors, and R&D initiatives.
- Analyze actuals against plan, investigate variances, update assumptions, and maintain forecast accuracy.
Reporting and Planning
- Prepare financial reporting for executive leadership.
- Support financial analyses and materials for Board and investor presentations.
- Collaborate with the People team and R&D leadership on hiring plans, headcount investments, and personnel-spend tracking.
- Support rollout and optimization of budgeting and planning systems.
Process and Cross-Functional Improvement
- Improve budgeting, forecasting, planning, reporting, and operational workflows.
- Build scalable financial processes and infrastructure in an evolving environment.
- Partner with Finance, Accounting, People, R&D, Product, Medical Intelligence Lab, and other teams.
- Leverage AI and modern tools to improve financial modeling, forecasting, reporting, and operational workflows.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in FP&A, financial operations, business finance, or a related finance role, ideally in a startup or high-growth technology environment.
- Experience partnering with R&D, Engineering, Product, Data, AI/ML, or other technology-focused organizations.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, including building models from the ground up.
- Experience owning detailed budgets and forecasts, analyzing actuals against plan, investigating variances, and maintaining forecast accuracy.
- Execution-oriented, organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing competing priorities in ambiguous environments.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams through data-driven insights and build collaborative relationships.
- Curiosity about technical concepts, operational drivers, and cost structures.
- Experience applying AI to improve finance processes, automate workflows, increase efficiency, and generate insights.
- Experience creating or significantly improving financial models, processes, reporting, systems, or operating workflows.
- Clear communication skills and ability to translate complex financial information for varied stakeholders.
Nice-to-Haves
- Hands-on experience with Pigment for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting; implementation or optimization experience is especially valuable.
- Experience in consumer health, diagnostics, digital health, laboratory, or healthcare technology.
- Experience implementing or improving modern FP&A systems.
Compensation and Benefits
- Compensation and benefits details were not provided.
Skills
FP&A, Financial Modeling, Excel, Google Sheets, Budgeting, Forecasting, Variance Analysis, Headcount Planning, Pigment, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Reporting, Process Automation, Financial Planning Systems, R&D Finance, Investor Reporting
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