Associate Director Financial Planning & Analysis

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Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary blood 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 launched liquid biopsy-based Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients. These tests fuel development of its LUNAR program, which aims to address the needs of early-stage cancer patients with neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment selection, cancer survivors with surveillance, asymptomatic individuals eligible for cancer screening and individuals at a higher risk for developing cancer with early detection.

Job Description

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

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Assist in managing the consolidation of P&L forecasting for all quarterly estimates and yearly budgets, including setting presentation templates and communication with various FP&A teams
• Work cross functionally within FP&A and collaborate with accounting and IT teams to consolidate P&L and monitor performance metrics and synthesize trends
• Perform P&L analysis based on FP&A team input for all forecasting cycles, including understanding each BU 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
• Create and maintain CFO calendar and 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.
• Minimum of 5+ years of FP&A related experience and corporate FP&A expense 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

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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. 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 will be required to maintain their fully-vaccinated status under this Policy by obtaining, if applicable, any FDA-approved boosters.

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 an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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