Director, Growth Finance

GeneDx (Nasdaq: WGS) delivers personalized and actionable health insights to inform diagnosis, direct treatment, and improve drug discovery. The company is uniquely positioned to accelerate the use of genomic and large-scale clinical information to enable precision medicine as the standard of care. GeneDx is at the forefront of transforming healthcare through its industry-leading exome and genome testing and interpretation services, fueled by the world’s largest, rare disease data sets. For more information, please visit www.genedx.com.

Summary 

The Director of Growth Finance partners with GeneDx’s core testing growth leaders. This role owns the financial and analytical view of our highest-revenue business lines, translating volume, pricing, reimbursement, and cost drivers into clear performance narratives and investment decisions. The role exists to ensure leadership has an objective, finance-certified understanding of where the testing business is performing well, where it is at risk, and where incremental investment will drive the greatest return.

This is a growth-facing finance leadership role focused on performance management, decision support, and investment tradeoffs for the company’s largest revenue streams.

Job Responsibilities

• Own the decision-support financial view of the testing business, translating finance-certified demand (from Demand & Volume Planning), reimbursement performance, and cost inputs into a decision-ready view of revenue, margin, and returns.
• Own the finance partnership with testing Growth Leads, supporting strategy, performance management, and investment tradeoffs.
• Translate company growth targets and certified demand trajectories into a business performance contract with Commercial leadership: the KPIs, milestones, and commitments the business will be run against.
• Lead the testing business’s response to performance variance, converting volume and reimbursement diagnostics into economic implications, risks, and actions for Growth Leads.
• Build and maintain decision-support P&L and ROI frameworks for major testing business lines, reflecting key economic drivers without replicating accounting systems.
• Develop business cases for commercial and product investments (sales capacity, marketing, pricing, pilots, launches), quantifying expected returns, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Drive forward-looking scenario analysis and capital allocation recommendations to evaluate growth opportunities, downside risks, and capital allocation choices for the Testing portfolio.
• Produce clear, board-grade narratives and materials for executive and board forums on testing performance, outlook, and investment decisions.
• Represent Finance’s independent point of view on growth, risk, and returns for the testing business in cross-functional and executive decision processes.
• Manage dedicated analytics and BI resources, setting priorities and ensuring delivery and BI support for the testing business, ensuring scarce resources are focused on the highest-impact questions and metrics.

People Manager

No, potential to gain team within first year.

Education, Experience, and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a related field; MBA or equivalent experience a plus but not required.
• 7–12 years of experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A, Commercial Finance, Consulting, or Corporate Development, ideally within healthcare, life sciences, SaaS, or other complex, data-driven, growth businesses.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with commercial or GM-like leaders, supporting revenue growth, investment decisions, and performance management in a matrixed organization.
• Strong financial and economic modeling skills, including building driver-based revenue models, ROI and business case analyses, and segment-level P&Ls; able to translate operational inputs into financial implications.
• Proven structured problem-solving ability — can frame ambiguous business questions, design the right analyses, and synthesize results into clear, decision-ready recommendations.
• Comfort working with imperfect, evolving data, including collaborating with forecasting, analytics, and data teams to interpret trends and risks without requiring perfect information.
• Experience supporting executive-level decision making, including preparing board- or C-suite-ready materials that clearly communicate performance, tradeoffs, and risks.
• Strong cross-functional influence and communication skills, able to work credibly with Commercial, Product, Operations, and Finance leaders without formal authority.
• Advanced Excel / financial modeling proficiency and comfort work