Finance Manager

Company: Guardant Health
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: July 30, 2022

Job Description:

Job Description

The Financial Planning and Analysis team is expanding to ensure we meet the needs of our rapidly growing business. We are looking for a Finance Manager, FP&A to join our FP&A team, reporting to Director of FP&A, Clinical Oncology Commercial.

This role focuses on management reporting, planning, and business partnering with key leaders in Sales and Marketing function. The incumbent will work closely with business partners and FP&A/Accounting teams to report accurate actuals, forecast variances to budget; contribute to budgeting and strategic/financial planning process; and champion reporting process optimization.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Partner with senior business leaders in Clinical Oncology Commercial function, providing robust monthly and quarterly financial performance reporting

Clearly communicate a cohesive and concise story around the business drivers behind financial data and implications on current and future results.

Evaluate and assess key operational issues, risks and business drivers pertaining to budget, actual results, and forecast updates, suggesting solutions and alternatives where appropriate to operating leaders including but not limited to operational efficiency, cost saving opportunities, capital expenditure decisions, etc.

Key contributor in quarterly forecast/annual budgeting and planning process, including expense and headcount planning, and implementing appropriate review process

Support and contribute to month-end close/reporting activities, investigations of significant variances, and communication of findings to key stakeholders.

Develop deep understanding of financial planning and ERP systems to enable and build reporting to support forecasting, close and variance to actuals analysis

Drive reporting process improvements and enhance data transparency to provide timely and accurate financial information to business leaders

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