Guardant Health Hiring for Finance Manager Job at Palo Alto, CA Full Time

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext™, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. These tests fuel development of its screening program, which aims to address the needs of asymptomatic individuals eligible for cancer screening.

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

Who You Are:

• Ability to communicate effectively (written and verbally) with strong presentation and organization skills
• Ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively across different functions
• Thrive in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment under pressure
• Desire to solve problems and improve processes
• Strong eye for details and an analytical approach in identifying insights
• Forward-thinking demeanor and highly adaptable nature
• Positive outlook and willingness to roll up your sleeves and get things done
• Naturally inquisitive with an aptitude for learning new tools and desire to continue to build skills

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or Business. MBA preferred
• 6+ years of work experience in FP&A, preferable within life sciences, biotech or pharmaceutical companies
• Excel Power User proficiency required
• Experience with ERP and financial planning systems such as SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, etc.

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Additional Information

Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

Covid Vaccination Policy: Starting January 7, 2022, Guardant Health will require all employees to be fully vaccinated to either (a) establish that they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19; or (b) request and obtain an approved exemption from Guardant’s COVID-19 U.S. Vaccination Policy as a reasonable accommodation, as consistent with applicable laws. An employee is considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19 two weeks after receiving the second dose of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a single-dose vaccination. Acceptable vaccines are approved or under emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and/or the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, fully-vaccinated employees will be required to maintain their fully-vaccinated status under this policy by obtaining, if applicable, any FDA-approved boosters.

Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.

Guardant Health is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our hiring processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected]

Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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