Senior Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis Manager (Hybrid or On-Site)

Company Description

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. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.

Job Description

The Senior Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis Manager is an integral part of the planning, analysis, and reporting of Guardant Health’s consolidated results. Reporting to the VP of Finance, Financial Planning and Analysis, this role provides the unique opportunity to forecast revenue, analyze business performance, manage budget and forecast cycles, and create presentations to senior management and Board of Directors.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop/consolidate annual operating plans, quarterly financial forecasts/latest estimates, ongoing analysis of actual compared to forecast/latest estimate, and work closely with accounting on monthly/quarterly close processes.  Develop presentation templates and communication with various FP&A teams
• Perform P&L analysis based on FP&A team input for all forecasting cycles, including understanding each Division and functional area variances (e.g. vs. budget/prior year) and related risks and opportunities to the current forecast
• Assist in the creation of presentations summarizing performance for Senior Management, Board of Directors, Investor Relations, etc.
• Manage and maintain monthly/quarterly KPI/management reporting
• Track approved budget changes and amounts, reconcile forecast to budget by approved programs, their respective headcounts, and associated spending, as well as various other types of expenses
• Significant involvement in projects to improve company planning processes and systems
• Create and maintain budget and forecast calendar and process
• Help execute on ad hoc requests as assigned by VP and/or CFO

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or Accounting, MBA a plus
• Minimum of 8+ years of FP&A related experience, experience in diagnostics company and corporate FP&A a plus
• Ability to think creatively and quickly with minimal direction and information.
• Strong relationship-building, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Excellent analytical, decision-making, and financial modeling abilities.
• Data-oriented and consultative problem-solving mindset.
• Strong finance and accounting skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Excel Power User proficiency required
• Expertise in presentation tools such as think-cell, PowerPoint, etc.
• Experience with ERP and financial planning systems such as SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, etc.

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.

For positions based in Palo Alto, CA or Redwood City, CA, the base salary range for this full-time position is $133,600 to $181,000. The range does not include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity.

Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including, but not limited to, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. If you are selected to move forward, the recruiting team will provide details specific to the factors above.

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 w