Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

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 Director, FP&A is responsible for leading the team in providing financial planning, analysis, and support for the operations organizations including Manufacturing/Lab Operations, Regulatory & Quality, and Facilities. This role will collaborate cross functionally throughout the organization, working with the leadership team to provide forward-looking insights using critical analytical thinking, to assist decision making for resource allocation and investment return, etc. The role will report to the VP, FP&A.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the Operations, Regulatory, and G&A leadership teams and manage one FP&A and one accounting personnel
• Develop annual operating plans, quarterly and monthly financial forecasts, ongoing analysis of actual, and collaborate with accounting and businesses during monthly/quarterly close processes
• Perform budget, forecast and actual analysis for department spend
• Partner with Supply Chain on inventory forecast and control material purchase
• Analyze and forecast Cost of Good Sold and Gross Profit for products
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unplanned variances. Work with team members to enhance financial and operational performance trends (historical and forecasted) using appropriate metrics
• Work closely with accounting and other FP&A teams on planning process for IT/facilities allocations and other cross charges, and conduct actual v. forecast analyses
• Be the thought leader and drive financial systems design for material flow and cost of good sold  
• Collaborate with IT and various FP&A teams on projects
• Help execute on ad hoc requests as assigned by VP and/or CFO

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or Accounting.  MBA preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of FP&A related experience or MBA with FP&A experience of 8+ years.
• Prior experience in lab operations or manufacturing finance
• Previous experience with a business partnering role.
• Prior experience as people manager.
• Demonstration of career progression with increased responsibility.
• 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.
• Excel Power User proficiency required.
• 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.

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