FP&A Margin & Operations Finance Lead

Baylor Genetics; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Baylor Genetics is seeking a Manager of Margin & Operations Finance to partner with laboratory operations and related functions. The role translates operating activity into financial outcomes, building forward-looking visibility into cost of services, gross margin, and capacity to support scalable margin improvements.

You will own COS forecasting, margin planning, cost-to-serve models, and capacity/labor productivity analyses, collaborating with Supply Chain and Procurement to drive cost

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Operations, or related field required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Typically 7+ years of progressive FP&A, operations finance, cost analytics, or strategic-finance experience; diagnostics, laboratory, manufacturing, healthcare operations, or high-volume environments preferred.
• Strong knowledge of cost behavior, fixed versus variable cost structures, gross margin, standard costs, and operational-driver modeling.
• Demonstrated ability to build cost-to-serve, capacity, productivity, and scenario models.
• Experience partnering with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, or technical leaders and challenging operating assumptions.
• Advanced Excel and financial-modeling skills; Workday Adaptive Planning or comparable EPM experience preferred.
• Experience analyzing labor, materials/reagents, consumables, logistics, send-outs, and other operational cost drivers preferred.
• Ability to distinguish accounting variance from operational economics and translate findings into management actions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex margin and operational issues to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• COS Forecasting: Own the forward-looking FP&A forecast for cost of services using operational drivers.
• Gross Margin Planning: Translate revenue and operating assumptions into gross-margin outlooks by major test type or platform.
• Cost-to-Serve: Develop and maintain cost-per-test and cost-to-serve models identifying economic drivers.
• Cost Driver Analytics: Quantify fixed, variable, and semi-variable cost drivers vs volumes and mix.
• Capacity Planning: Model laboratory capacity, throughput, utilization, and incremental capacity needs.
• Labor Productivity: Analyze staffing, overtime, throughput, and productivity; link to labor cost and margin.
• Reagent and Consumable Economics: Analyze utilization, yield, waste, and purchasing economics.
• Supply Chain Finance: Evaluate sourcing, inventory, and vendor initiatives from a forward-looking view.
• Margin Bridges: Produce integrated gross-margin bridges separating ASP, volume, mix, labor, and materials effects.
• Operational Variance Analysis: Explain actual vs budget/forecast COS and margin causes.
• Cost Reduction and Automation Initiatives: Establish baselines and track realized savings from automation.
• Business Cases: Evaluate equipment, automation, capacity expansion, insourcing/outsourcing investments.
• Operational KPIs: Develop leading financial and operational indicators for risk early warning.
• Forecast Accuracy: Track COS and gross-margin forecast accuracy and improve drivers.
• Risks and Opportunities: Maintain margin risks/opportunities and integrate into forecasting.
• Operations Partnership: Translate performance into financial actions for reviews and boards.
• Executive and Board Support: Prepare margin and performance analyses for leadership materials.
• Systems Enablement: Partner with FP&A Systems & BI to embed cost drivers in BI tools.

Skills

Advanced Excel & financial modeling

Communication skills

Cost analytics

Operations finance collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Operations, or related field

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Tools

Workday Adaptive Planning

Cost analytics tools

Job description

Baylor Genetics is seeking a Manager of Margin & Operations Finance to partner with laboratory operations and related functions. The role translates operating activity into financial outcomes, building forward-looking visibility into cost of services, gross margin, and capacity to support scalable margin improvements.

You will own COS forecasting, margin planning, cost-to-serve models, and capacity/labor productivity analyses, collaborating with Supply Chain and Procurement to drive cost