Senior Associate, Finance- San Mateo, CA or Salt Lake City, UT

Company: Life sciences/healthcare AI startup digitizing the immune system
Reports to: CEO (taking over finance from an outgoing consulting CFO)

About the Role:

We're looking for a Senior Associate, Finance to own the entire finance function at a fast-growing biotech company. This is a rare opportunity to run finance end-to-end at a company supporting 30+ clinical trials from closing the books each month to building the production cost models that shape pricing and operating decisions across our customer base of drug developers.

You'll take full ownership from our consulting CFO and operate as the company's sole finance hire, reporting directly to the CEO.

What You'll Do:

Own the core finance function: monthly close, runway forecasts, and profitability reforecasts managing a complete cutover from the outgoing consulting CFO

Build and maintain a production cost model to understand the true cost of serving each drug developer customer

Prepare board packages, investor updates, and fundraising materials

Manage AP/AR and oversee our outsourced bookkeeping firm to ensure accuracy

Expand into adjacent operations functions as the company scales supply
forecasting, compensation modeling, cap table management, and more

What We're Looking For:

Proven ability to build financial models from scratch operating models, unit economics, margin analysis

Experience managing or supporting a month-end close process

Advanced Excel/Google Sheets modeling skills

Comfort operating autonomously and hands-on as the sole finance hire no team to delegate to

High attention to detail with numbers, invoices, and financial accuracy
0 5 years of experience in FP&A, investment banking, private equity, or a controller role

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