Finance Leader, Product and Engineering

Datavant is a rapidly growing health information technology company with a mission to connect the world’s health data to improve patient outcomes. Datavant works to reduce the friction of data sharing across the healthcare industry by building technology that protects the privacy of patients while supporting the linkage of patient health records across datasets.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, remote-first team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We hire for three traits: we want people who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team, and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs. Read more about our culture and benefits here!

Datavant is seeking a Finance Director to oversee the execution delivery and cost efficiencies of the Product and Engineering departments.  In this role, you will drive financial planning & analysis, return on investment analysis, quality, and on-time delivery KPIs.  The role will operate as a strategic partner to these departments in driving operating efficiencies, productivity, and capacity planning. This is a great role for someone excited to be at the intersection of finance and the strategic departments where the highest investment is, for a world-changing transformative healthcare company!

 You will:

• Own planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Monitor actual performance and analytics against budgeting and forecasting. 
• Work closely with the 2 Executive staff general managers (operational leaders for Product Management and Engineering) providing data-driven insights and analysis to support strategic decision-making, including evaluating investment opportunities, headcount planning, and cost optimization on a helpful cadence and assisting in driving continuous improvement.
• Conduct financial analysis and monitoring KPIs of investments, productivity, and quality fulfillment.
• Measure and contextualize the investment, spending, and performance of not only SG&A but also the cost of goods sold and Capex across these departments.
• With other members of the finance team, support monthly internal and external reporting and other activities to bring visibility and clarity to our stakeholders and BOD.

What you will bring to the table: 

• BA/BS degree
• 7-10 years of experience in finance, with positions showing increasing responsibility and authority
• Experience with operating finance in a COGS/SG&A-heavy structure
• Ability to drive change and improvement
• Excellent written and oral communication, as well as interpersonal and influencing skills. Ability to influence a cross-functional team to reach successful outcomes.
• Master of the Excel

Bonus points if:

• Experience in the healthcare and/or software/technology field, including SAAS.
• Graduate degree in business or an analytical field

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges for this position are developed with the support of benchmarks and industry best practices. 

We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact. The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. The estimated salary range for this role is  $115,000-$165,000

At the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your responses will be anonymous and used to help us identify areas of improvement in our recruitment process. (We can only see aggregate responses, not individual responses. In fact, we aren’t even able to see if you’ve responded or not.)