Margin and Operations Finance Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary finance partner for FP&A with laboratory operations and associated functions.

• Create forward-looking insights into service costs, gross margins, cost-to-serve, capacity, labor productivity, reagent and consumable usage, supply chain economics, and operational improvement initiatives.

• Take ownership of forward-looking FP&A forecasts for service costs based on operational drivers.

• Convert revenue and operational assumptions into gross margin projections.

• Design and uphold cost-per-test and cost-to-serve models.

• Model laboratory capacity, throughput, utilization, and additional capacity needs.

• Evaluate staffing, overtime, throughput, labor utilization, and overall productivity.

• Assess reagent and consumable usage, yield, waste, purchasing economics, and volume sensitivity.

• Collaborate with Supply Chain and Procurement on sourcing, purchasing, inventory, and vendor initiatives.

• Generate integrated gross margin bridges and operational variance analyses.

• Set financial baselines, validate business cases, and monitor realized savings from margin initiatives.

• Analyze operating investments through ROI, payback, NPV, and scenario analyses.

• Create leading financial and operational KPIs.

• Monitor COS and gross margin forecast accuracy, quantifying margin risks and opportunities.

• Engage in operating reviews, translating operational performance into financial implications and actionable insights.

• Prepare analyses for executive reviews, forecasts, and Board presentations.

• Collaborate with FP&A Systems & BI to integrate cost drivers and margin reporting into Adaptive and governed BI tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Operations, or a related field is required.

• An MBA or advanced degree is preferred.

• Typically requires 7+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, operations finance, cost analytics, or strategic finance.

• Experience in diagnostics, laboratory, manufacturing, healthcare operations, or another high-volume operational environment is preferred.

• Strong understanding of cost behavior, fixed versus variable cost structures, gross margin, standard costs, and operational-driver modeling.

• Proven ability to construct cost-to-serve, capacity, productivity, business-case, and scenario models.

• Experience working directly with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, or technical leaders.

• Advanced skills in Excel and financial modeling.

• Workday Adaptive Planning or similar EPM experience is preferred.

• Significant experience in analyzing labor, materials/reagents, consumables, logistics, send-outs, and other operational cost drivers is strongly preferred.

• Ability to differentiate accounting variances from underlying operational economics and translate insights into management actions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex margin and operational issues to senior leadership.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer dedicated to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace.

• Reasonable accommodation provided during the application process.