Senior Financial Analyst

Summary

Join Natera as a Senior Financial Analyst and contribute to the organization's financial success by providing timely and insightful business expense performance analyses. You will gather, analyze, and summarize financial data to support financial planning and forecasting. Responsibilities include monitoring financial expenses, reviewing expense requisitions, developing departmental benchmarks, creating ad-hoc analyses, and supporting the accounting close process. This role requires a Bachelor's degree in a related field, at least 5 years of relevant experience, and strong Excel skills. The position offers competitive benefits, including comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans, as well as free testing and fertility care benefits for employees and their families. Natera is a global leader in cell-free DNA testing, committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on solving moderate to complex financial issues
• 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
• 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