Sr Financial Analyst at Natera

The Senior Financial Analyst supports the organizations by providing timely, accurate and insightful business expense performance analyses to management. Gathers, analyzes, prepares and summarizes recommendations for financial plans, future requirements and operating forecasts. Develops, interprets and implements financial concepts for financial planning and control while performing technical analyses to determine present and future financial performance. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: • Monitor, identify, and communicate financial expense performance to business partners • Review and approve expense requisitions; highlighting items which are outside of budget parameters • Develop departmental financial and project expense benchmarks and reporting • Create ad-hoc analyses and business forecasts • Support accounting close process and audit reporting • Design and implement scalable processes and procedures to report key business metrics • Identify and drive implementation of cost reduction and process improvement projects • Work with all functional groups to meet financial and corporate goals • This role works with PHI on a regular basis both in paper and electronic form and has access to various • technologies to access PHI (paper and electronic) in order to perform the job • Employee must complete training relating to HIPAA/PHI privacy, General Policies and • Procedure Compliance training and security training as soon as possible but not later than the first 30 days • of hire. • Must maintain a current status on Natera training requirements. QUALIFICATIONS: • Bachelor’s in Accounting, Finance, related degree, or equivalent • Minimum of 5 years of experience in financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting experience • Excel skills experience is a necessity (pivot tables, VBA macros and Lookup functions) • Strong financial systems and business application skills including database applications (Qlikview) • Working knowledge of GAAP. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: • Strong analytical skills with a focus on solving moderate to complex financial issues • Experience supporting an R&D/Engineering organization is preferred • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Self-starter with ability to work in a cross-functional, fast-paced environment • Ability to effectively prioritize and juggle multiple time sensitive projects, multi-task, identify project • interdependencies and potential risks/pitfalls • Ability to exercise sound judgment and confidentiality in handling information and issues that arise • while staying within defined policies and practices. • Collaborative work style, strong service orientation, and ability to effectively respond to and interact with • all levels of organizational staff OUR OPPORTUNITY Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives. The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management. WHAT WE OFFER Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program! For more information, visit www.natera.com. Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws. If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. Link: [Upgrade to PRO to see link] Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes. For more information: - BBB announcement on job scams - FBI Cyber Crime resource page