Senior Financial Analyst

This position pays a base salary between: $150,000–$170,000 Bonus

Ideally 5 days per week onsite in Newark, CA but open to hybrid options

***Local candidates to the SF Bay Area need apply***

Our client is seeking a highly analytical and strategic Financial Analyst / FP&A professional to join a fast-growing, innovative organization in the biotech and manufacturing space. This individual will play a critical role in financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and business analytics while partnering closely with executive leadership to drive growth and operational performance.

About You

You are an exceptional Financial Analyst with excellent analytical and advanced financial modeling skills. You possess deep experience in supporting financial planning, financial analysis, and management reporting, underpinned by strong business acumen and solid knowledge of corporate finance concepts. You think strategically and are driven to create scalable, insightful financial models, dashboards, and key performance indicators (KPIs). You are highly collaborative across functions and communicate effectively throughout the organization.

Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Planning and Reporting

• Develop and execute the multi-year strategic and annual budget planning process.
• Drive the work of the finance team to develop a comprehensive multi-year financial projection and the 2026 budget (P&L, B/S, and Cash Flow statements) with details on revenue, growth drivers, and cost of sales by product line families.
• Provide monthly budgetary controls and detailed variance analysis.
• Develop and implement a quarterly forecast model, focusing on revenue analysis, gross margin, inventory levels, and cash forecasting.
• Implement rolling forecasts (12 0, 3 9, 6 6, 9 3) and a process to identify and address deviations versus plan (Business Outlook).

Business Finance Support and Analytics

• Design, maintain, and publish management financial and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting used by the senior management team to drive results.
• Provide ad-hoc reporting and analysis to support the decision-making process on key sales deals, manufacturing cost reduction initiatives, or new product development projects.
• Ensure that a comprehensive financial model is developed, with an extension to more accurately reflect the profitability of the product lines, with potential historical restatements.

Develop and Implement Revenue Analytics (Top Line P&L Performance):

• Revenue by customer
• Customer revenue trends/visibility
• Month over Month / Quarter over quarter / YoY performance
• Analytics on sell-through / upsell of capabilities

Assist in Developing and Implementing COGS Analytics (Gross Margin Performance):

• Margin by service
• Labor and absorption analysis
• Identification of levers for operational and cost efficiencies

Develop and Implement Project Costing and Cross Charges:

• as needed for visibility and accuracy of the profitability by customer service contracts, profitability by product line and product family, and understanding of where the R&D money is spent.

Develop and Implement SG&A Analytics (Operating Expenses Optimization):

• SG&A benchmarking
• Detailed analysis of the G&A cost drivers for proposal to optimize structure and level of spending.

Experience and Qualifications

Experience

• 5 years of progressive FP&A or business finance experience, experience in a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Proven analytical and advanced financial modeling skills.
• Solid understanding of ERP systems/system flows (both implementation and day-to-day usage).
• Highly prefer Life Science industry experience
• Experience working in start-ups is a plus.

Education

• MBA or equivalent.