Finance Manager, R&D

Overview

This role is an individual contributor Finance Manager, R&D position focused on operational execution and strong analytical support for research and development. You will partner with technical and operational leaders to translate rapidly changing business needs into accurate forecasts, financial models, budgets, and actionable insights.

This is not a traditional Strategic Finance role. In addition to financial modeling and analysis, the work emphasizes getting into the details behind complex technical initiatives, building the models and processes needed to support them, and ensuring Finance can forecast a fast-moving, evolving R&D organization.

Responsibilities

• R&D Finance Business Partnership: Partner with R&D and related technical department leads to support budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and performance reporting; develop a deep understanding of priorities, operations, and key financial drivers.
• Forecasting & Budgeting: Own detailed forecasts and budgets for the R&D organization, translating evolving business needs into plans.
• Performance Reporting & Insights: Work directly with stakeholders to understand changes in the business and continuously improve forecast accuracy.
• Financial Modeling: Build and maintain detailed financial models that translate complex operational and technical inputs into clear outputs; create new models and frameworks as products, technologies, vendors, and R&D initiatives change.
• Headcount Planning: Collaborate with the People team and R&D leadership to manage hiring plans, model headcount investments, and track hiring and personnel spend against budget and forecast.
• Executive & Leadership Reporting: Prepare and deliver financial reporting for executive leadership; support financial analyses and materials for Board and investor presentations.
• Operational Finance & Variance Management: Maintain close visibility into actuals versus forecast; investigate variances, update assumptions, and ensure plans reflect what is happening across the organization.
• Process Building & Improvement: Identify and implement improvements across budgeting, forecasting, planning, and reporting workflows; build scalable processes where financial infrastructure is still developing.
• Planning Systems & Tools: Support rollout, implementation, and ongoing optimization of budgeting and planning systems to improve financial operations, forecast accuracy, reporting efficiency, and scalability.
• Cross-Functional Execution: Partner across Finance, Accounting, People, R&D, Product, Medical Intelligence Lab, and other teams to ensure financial information and business inputs flow accurately and efficiently.
• AI-Forward Finance: Leverage AI and modern tools to increase the speed, accuracy, and scalability of financial modeling, forecasting, reporting, and operational workflows.

Requirements / Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in FP&A, Financial Operations, Business Finance, or a related finance role, ideally within a startup or high-growth technology environment.
• Experience partnering with technical or operational teams (e.g., R&D, Engineering, Product, Data, AI/ML, or other technology-focused organizations) and translating priorities into financial requirements.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, with advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and demonstrated experience building models from the ground up.
• Experience owning detailed budgets and forecasts, analyzing actuals against plan, investigating variances, and maintaining forecast accuracy in a rapidly changing environment.
• Highly execution-oriented approach with comfort working through volume and detail; ability to move quickly, manage competing priorities, and create structure in ambiguous or evolving environments.
• Demonstrated ability to support and influence cross-functional teams through data-driven insights while building strong collaborative relationships with both Finance and non-Finance stakeholders.
• Naturally curious approach with comfort asking the right questions to understand unfamiliar technical concepts, operational drivers, and cost structures and translate them into financial models and forecasts.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI to improve finance processes, automate workflows, increase efficiency, and generate actionable financial insights.
• Builder mentality: experience creating or significantly improving financial models, processes, reporting, systems, or operating workflows rather than only maintaining established processes.
• Clear and effective communication with strong attention to detail; ability to translate complex financial information for a variety of stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Hands-on experience using Pigment for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting; implementation or optimization experience is especially valuable.
• Experience in healthtech/diagnostics (consumer health, diagnostics, digital health, laboratory, or healthcare technology environments).
• Experience implementing or improving modern planning tools such as Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive Planning, or similar platforms.
• 0→1 finance building experience creating new financial models, forecasting processes, reporting structures, or operating workflows from scratch in a rapidly scaling organization.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Flexible working hours.

Location

• Not specified in the provided job description.

Equal Opportunity

The organization is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity, ancestry, religion, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital status, Veteran status, or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria.