FP&A Director, Biotech Growth | Remote

Iambic; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 156,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Company paid healthcare

401K matching

Uncapped vacation

Job summary

Iambic Therapeutics, a clinical-stage life-science and technology company in San Diego, seeks an Associate Director / Director, FP&A to own budgeting, planning, and long-range financial modeling as our finance team scales for growth. Based at our San Diego headquarters with remote considerations for exceptional candidates.

The role focuses on partnering with executives, building robust financial models, and delivering Board-ready analyses to guide strategic decisions in a fast-paced biotech

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline preferred. Equivalent work experience will be considered; MBA and CFA a plus.
• 8+ years of professional experience in FP&A within biotech, pharma or life sciences, and/or investment banking, consulting or corporate development with a healthcare or life sciences focus.
• Demonstrated expertise building and running complex three-statement, multi-scenario financial models.
• Several years as a finance business partner in an operating company, ideally in biotech or life sciences with proven ability to collaborate with executives and department heads, including scientific leaders, on budgets, tradeoffs and resource allocation.
• Experience managing and developing finance professionals, including hiring.
• Experience leading recurring planning and reporting cycles on tight timelines, in close partnership with Accounting.
• Familiarity with drug development economics (program-level costs, development stages, partnership structures) strongly preferred.
• Public-company experience, such as earnings preparation, SEC filing support or investor materials preferred.
• Experience with Adaptive Planning (or a similar planning tool) and NetSuite (or a similar ERP) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a finance business partner to Group leaders across the organization, including Computational, Discovery & Experimental, Clinical, and G&A, and project leaders for our partnership programs.
• Lead our annual budgeting process supporting our Executive and Group leaders in establishing near-term Group budgets and our long-range plan across our portfolio of internal Pipeline assets, Partnership programs, and Platform initiatives.
• Collaborate with Discovery R&D and Clinical Finance to lead our quarterly reporting process by providing Group leaders with key budget vs actuals analyses and working with them to update budget templates with the latest strategic and operational assumptions.
• Manage the consolidated three-statement financial models supporting our goal-based planning process, resource allocation, and strategic decision-making.
• Maintain stage-based cost models tied to portfolio timelines and turn them into long-range plans across multiple scenarios.
• Create detailed analyses and executive and Board-ready materials covering our financial performance and future outlook.
• Support Business Development with program economics and deal modeling for partnerships.
• Collaborate with the Accounting team on month-end close activities and financial reporting and Procurement on PO approvals and expense controls.
• Support the development of scalable, gold-standard FP&A tools, systems and processes as the company grows.
• Identify and recommend opportunities for process improvements and efficiency enhancements within the FP&A function.
• Lead day-to-day FP&A operations, including planning and reporting timelines
• Mentor and guide a team of high-performing colleagues across the FP&A team.

Skills

Financial modeling

FP&A partnering

Leadership & mentoring

Budgeting & planning

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related

MBA and CFA a plus

Tools

Adaptive Planning

NetSuite

Job description

Iambic Therapeutics, a clinical-stage life-science and technology company in San Diego, seeks an Associate Director / Director, FP&A to own budgeting, planning, and long-range financial modeling as our finance team scales for growth. Based at our San Diego headquarters with remote considerations for exceptional candidates.

The role focuses on partnering with executives, building robust financial models, and delivering Board-ready analyses to guide strategic decisions in a fast-paced biotech