Finance Manager, R&D

Company Overview

Role

Key Responsibilities:

• R&D Finance Business Partnership: Partner closely with technical department leads across R&D and related teams to support budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and performance reporting. Develop a deep understanding of their priorities, operations, and key financial drivers.
• Forecasting & Budgeting: Own detailed forecasts and budgets for the R&D organization, and translating evolving business needs.
• Performance Reporting & Insights: Partner 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 financial outputs. Create new models and frameworks as Function introduces new products, technologies, vendors, and R&D initiatives.
• Headcount Planning: Collaborate closely 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 and support financial analyses and materials for Board and investor presentations.
• Operational Finance & Variance Management: Maintain close visibility into actual performance versus forecast, investigate variances, update assumptions, and ensure financial plans accurately reflect what is happening across the organization.
• Process Building & Improvement: Identify and implement improvements across budgeting, forecasting, planning, and reporting workflows. Build scalable processes in areas where financial infrastructure is still developing and create structure within a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
• Planning Systems & Tools: Support the 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 across the organization.
• AI-Forward Finance: Leverage AI and modern tools to increase the speed, accuracy, and scalability of financial modeling, forecasting, reporting, and operational workflows.

Qualifications / Skills:

• 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.
• Technical or R&D Business Partnership: Experience partnering with technical or operational teams such as R&D, Engineering, Product, Data, AI/ML, or other technology-focused organizations, with the ability to understand their priorities and translate them into financial requirements.
• Financial Modeling: Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, with advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and demonstrated experience building models from the ground up.
• Forecasting & Budgeting: Experience owning detailed budgets and forecasts, analyzing actuals against plan, investigating variances, and maintaining forecast accuracy in a rapidly changing environment.
• Operational Orientation: Highly execution-oriented and comfortable working through volume and detail. Able to move quickly, manage competing priorities, and create structure in ambiguous or evolving environments.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: 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.
• Technical & Business Curiosity: Naturally curious and comfortable asking the right questions to understand unfamiliar technical concepts, operational drivers, and cost structures and translate them into financial models and forecasts.
• AI Fluency: 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 solely maintaining established processes.
• Communication & Detail Orientation: Clear and effective communicator with strong attention to detail and the ability to translate complex financial information for a variety of stakeholders.

Nice-to-Have Skills and Experiences:

• Pigment: Hands-on experience using Pigment for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting; implementation or optimization experience is especially valuable.
• Healthtech / Diagnostics: Experience within consumer health, diagnostics, digital health, laboratory, or healthcare technology environments.
• FP&A Systems Implementation: 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.

To be a strong fit, you embody our Core Values

• Ruthless Prioritization: 
  • We don't let perfect get in the way of progress.
  • We move quickly to drive value, not perfection.
  • We prioritize what drives impact.
  • We never compromise on standards of excellence.
• Member-First, Always: 
  • We design and deliver like we're caring for someone we love.
  • We create clear, actionable, human experiences.
  • We prioritize responsiveness, peace of mind, and outcomes.
  • We empower members with truth, clarity, and care.
• One Team, Moving Fast: 
  • We are aligned in purpose, prioritization, and speed.
  • We gather diverse perspectives to make informed decisions.
  • We clear paths for each other and move fast together.
  • We communicate clearly and respectfully, rallying around shared goals.
• Radical Ownership, Relentless Execution: 
  • We don't just ship — we own outcomes and drive results.
  • We act with urgency and precision.
  • We anticipate, initiate, and follow through.
  • We meet challenges with grit and pragmatism.
  • We embrace new tech to deliver better outcomes.
• Mission Over Ego: 
  • We are ruthlessly aligned to our mission — and leave ego at the door.
  • We disagree and commit.
  • We don't tolerate politics or withholding information.
  • We operate with honesty, transparency, and respect.
• Sustained Integrity in Every Detail: 
  • We earn trust by obsessing over accuracy, quality, and clarity in everything we do.
  • We prioritize clinical precision — data must be right.
  • We sweat the details because outcomes depend on them.

Why You'll Love Working With Us