JOB SUMMARY
We are looking for a finance leader with a strong financial acumen and demonstrated system experience in executing financial budgeting and actuals reporting within Life Sciences. This position requires effective interpersonal skills, leadership qualities, and the ability to build cross-functional business relationships.

This position offers the opportunity to be in a hands-on role within the Finance Team and contribute by providing strategic financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting expertise while serving as a partner to the functional groups. Understanding what monetary, labor, and temporal resources are allocated to a set of value-driving goals is essential for driving company strategy and determining tactics.

This is an exciting time to join, and we are eager to find the right partner to ensure our financial processes continue to support the needs of our industry-leading organization. This role will report to the VP of Finance, leading Corporate FP&A and partnering with our R&D, and G&A Teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Budget and Forecast Planning:

• Lead the annual budget, forecasting and LRP process across all departments, inclusive of the latest re-forecast to refine expectations for the year

• Build models to analyze liquidity, cash concentration cash forecasting, and strategic optionality multi-scenario planning

• Prepare financial budget and results for Board and Audit Committee presentations

• Develop goal / project-based forecasting and tracking in order to aid strategic discussions around resource prioritization

• Build financial models and analyze business opportunities, risks, synergies, and cost models

• Support partner collaboration analysis and contribute to business development financial modeling

• Work with Finance, Business Development, and Executive Teams on designing and tracking of key performance metrics across Iambic in order to measure progress and frame how the application of some resource translates into the creation of some quantifiable unit of value

Financial Reporting & Variance Analyses:

• Lead and present quarter-end financial close results

• Provide regular reporting and variance analysis to all departments to promote decision-making and alignment to our corporate objectives & identify opportunities for cost efficiency

• Understand Iambic’s business model so that Finance's commentary goes beyond numbers and contextualizes data with business outcomes

• Partner with the Accounting Team on close processes around accruals and expenses, project code reporting and department and expense account reclasses

• Prepare monthly headcount tracking and forecasting for executive review

System Enhancements, Process Improvement & Leadership:

• Implement and refine FP&A processes, including the usage of a system like Adaptive

• Drive dialogue between key stakeholders to establish and evolve organizational KPIs

• Lead budgeting system selection and implementation

• Review purchase requisitions to ensure budget and financial compliance

• Apply working knowledge of RPA (robotic process automation) tools and techniques to automate processes, optimize system usage, and enhance business efficiency.

• Contribute to continuous process improvements to identify opportunities to streamline and eliminate redundancies

• When applicable, hire and mentor a team to support company growth

QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of relevant work experience in the biotech life sciences sector with a combination of private and public companies

• MBA, CFA or CPA certification or management consulting experience required

• Highly proficient working in NetSuite, Adaptive, Planful, Coupa, Procurify, etc.

• Experience with advanced Excel BI functionality and languages (Power Query (M), PowerPivot (DAX)) and visualization tools like PowerBI or Tableau

• Exceptional financial modeling, reporting metrics and presentation

• Advanced financial modeling skills, including P&Ls, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and key performance indicators (KPIs)

• Experience managing and analyzing large datasets and ability to distill and present as clear and succinct executive-level insights

• Excellent problem-framing, problem-solving, and project management in a dynamic environment

• Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g., Python, R) a plus.

ABOUT IAMBIC THERAPEUTICS

Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Iambic Therapeutics is disrupting the therapeutics landscape with its unique AI-driven drug-discovery platform. Iambic has assembled a world-class team that unites pioneering AI experts and experienced drug hunters with strong track records of success in delivering clinically validated therapeutics. The Iambic platform has been demonstrated to deliver high-quality, differentiated therapeutics to clinical stage with unprecedented speed and across multiple target classes and mechanisms of action. The Iambic team is advancing an internal pipeline of clinical assets to address urgent unmet patient needs. Learn more about the Iambic team, platform, and pipeline at iambic.ai.

MISSION & CORE VALUES

The culture and work at Iambic Therapeutics are profoundly strengthened by the diversity of our people and our differences in background, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and life experiences. We are committed to building an inclusive environment where a diverse group of talented humans work together to discover therapeutics and create technologies.

PAY AND BENEFITS

We offer industry leading competitive pay, company paid healthcare, flexible spending accounts, voluntary life Insurance, 401K matching, and uncapped vacation to our team. We are in a brand-new state-of-the art facility in beautiful San Diego with an onsite gym, dining, and easy access to great places to live and play.