Business Analyst

We offer integrated, comprehensive solutions that address complex technical, clinical development, and safety and regulatory challenges, leveraging our deep scientific, medical, and regulatory expertise and real-world experience. Our goal is to help you complete projects efficiently and with less risk, leading to solutions for a healthier and safer world.

With a broad range of renowned scientific, medical, regulatory, and engineering specialists under one roof, we streamline your project and reduce your workload, so you can make sound, science-based decisions about human and environmental health issues.

BlueRidge Life Sciences is a growing family of companies providing a comprehensive suite of life sciences services, spanning toxicology, regulatory science, risk assessment, epidemiology, biostatistics, engineering, clinical research, health economics, pharmaceutical commercialization, and environmental consulting. Across these specialized areas, we collaborate to deliver science-driven solutions that support industries including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, chemicals, foods and consumer products. Our collective expertise helps clients navigate regulatory requirements, assess safety and efficacy, manage risks, and optimize pharmaceutical commercialization strategies.

If you’re ready to achieve your life science goals, there’s no better partner than BlueRidge Life Sciences.  

Job Description:

Financial Planning, Analysis & Reporting:

• Support the annual budgeting and forecasting process, including consolidating inputs, building budget models, and presenting outputs to executive leadership.
• Support the development and maintenance of reports and dashboards in Salesforce, NetSuite Analytics, and Kantata that give leadership visibility into key metrics and financial results; prior experience with these platforms preferred.
• Gather and compile data from across systems to put together ad-hoc reports in response to requests from finance, operations, and leadership.
• Prepare monthly management reporting and variance analysis, comparing actuals to budget and prior forecast across operating units and consolidating results for leadership review.
• Assist with periodic reforecasts and scenario modeling, maintaining forecast models and supporting schedules under the direction of the Sr. Business Analyst.

Sales Operations:

• Manage Salesforce data governance, ensuring accuracy and completeness across opportunities, accounts, and pipeline stages, and enforcing consistent data entry standards.
• Develop and maintain Salesforce reports and dashboards covering pipeline, closed-won sales, and win/loss trends for sales and executive leadership.
• Support pipeline review cadences, partnering with operating unit leads to keep opportunity data current ahead of forecast cycles.

Finance Operations Support:

• Support the monthly close process by preparing supporting schedules and reconciling data between operating systems (Salesforce, Kantata, NetSuite) and the general ledger.
• Assist with project setup, billing support, and revenue tracking, partnering with operating unit leads to ensure accurate revenue and utilization data.
• Support process documentation and improvements to recurring finance and reporting workflows.
• Complete supplier and vendor onboarding forms, manage business license renewals, and maintain accurate vendor and client records across internal systems.

Legal & Contract Management:

• Coordinate the review and negotiation of confidentiality agreements, master service agreements, and other client contracts between internal stakeholders and legal counsel, and maintain standard contract templates with version control.
• Manage centralized archiving of fully executed agreements, maintaining organized, accessible records.
• Support the company's IP portfolio and corporate records, coordinating with external counsel as needed.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in FP&A, finance, or business analytics, ideally within a professional services or consulting environment.
• Demonstrated experience supporting budgeting and forecasting cycles, building management reporting, and performing financial analysis.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to exercise sound judgment in ambiguous or time-sensitive situations.
• Advanced Excel skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite; hands-on experience with Salesforce, NetSuite, Kantata, or comparable ERP, CRM, and BI tools is strongly preferred.
• Experience maintaining data integrity across business systems, including data cleanup, standardization, and reconciliation between platforms.
• Ability to translate large or unstructured data sets into clear reports, dashboards, and recommendations for a non-technical audience.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple competing deadlines and reporting cycles simultaneously.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to accuracy.
• Collaborative team player with experience partnering directly across a diverse group of functions - including finance, accounting, HR, IT, operational leads, and legal counsel - to gather information, resolve issues, and deliver results.
• Ability to manage individual workload effectively and thrive in a fast-paced, multi-project environment with shifting priorities.