Senior Financial Analyst

Summary

Join Natera, a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, as a Senior Financial Analyst and contribute to timely, accurate, and insightful business expense performance analyses. You will monitor financial expenses, review and approve requisitions, develop benchmarks and reporting, create forecasts, and support the accounting close process. This remote role requires strong analytical skills, experience in financial planning and budgeting, and proficiency in Excel and financial systems. Natera offers competitive benefits including comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans, free testing for employees and their families, fertility care benefits, and more.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

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

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting an R&D/Engineering organization is preferred

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents
• Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits
• Pregnancy and baby bonding leave
• 401k benefits
• Commuter benefits
• A generous employee referral program