Strategic Finance Analyst, Benchling
Corporate
$97.8-132.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
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Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$97.8-132.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- This is an excellent opportunity for someone early in their finance career looking to develop broad exposure across FP&A, strategic planning, and business partnering
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics or equivalent area
- 2-4 years experience across strategic finance, FP&A, investment banking, private equity, corporate development and consulting
- Highly analytical and detail-oriented, with a strong aptitude and enthusiasm for complex problem-solving involving financial modeling and working with large data sets
- Strong Communication Skills - ability to distill and articulate complex data to drive business decisions
- Exceptional work-ethic with a mindset towards process development and scalability
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Strategic Finance Analyst, Corporate to join our Strategic Finance team
- You will be an integral part of a small and highly-leveraged team, and will support our monthly and quarterly close process, budgeting and forecasting, expense management and analysis, as well as projects to help support the company’s long-term growth and strategic vision
- Expectations include working cross-functionally and establishing/improving processes to enable Benchling’s continued growth
- Support our consolidated strategic and financial planning processes through preparation of our monthly and quarterly reporting to the CFO, leadership team, and Board of Directors
- Collaborate with the Strategic Finance and Accounting teams on month-end close activities, forecast cycles, headcount and expense analyses, and allocations
- Work closely cross-functionally to develop, scale and evolve financial reporting systems and processes to effectively forecast and analyze financial performance, including identifying areas for automation and improvement
- Analyze financial results, understand key trends, assess current and future business risks and opportunities, and communicate insights
- Perform ad hoc financial modeling and analysis for strategic initiatives across multiple teams, including supporting long-range planning and forecasting models driving strategic decision-making
Our take
As the pioneer of the R&D Cloud, Benchling offers a cloud-based informatics platform tailored for biotechnology. Its platform enables scientists across the globe to make breakthrough discoveries and bring next-gen biotechnology to market.
There’s a sincerity and consciousness to Benchling’s approach that stands out. This has led to the company being adopted by over 200,000 scientists from 1,000+ companies and 7,500 academic and research institutions globally (including 23andMe, Moderna, and the U.S. Department of Defense).
The rapidly advancing Biotechnology industry was at the forefront of the so-called “fourth industrial revolution”, with the industry driving $2 to $4 trillion per year of economic impact over the next 20 years.
Benchling has put itself in a position of immense value within the industry with its expanding offerings. And now, off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $411.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Robust healthcare benefits
- Family-forming benefits
- Four months of fully paid parental leave
- Retirement benefits
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sajith Wickramasekara
(Co-Founder & CEO)Sajith studied at MIT before spending 2 years as a Research Assistant at Duke University Medical Centre and Liquidia Technologies. They used this biotechnology understanding to found Benchling in June 2012, serving as CEO since.
Ashu Singhal
(Co-Founder & President)They previously co-founded Hotspots.io which was later acquired by Twitter in 2012. After this, became Staff Software Engineer at Twitter for 2 years, leaving to co-found Benchling.
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