Operations & Finance Leader, Cybersecurity & Legal

Simulation 95; Menlo Park (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Simulation95, a California-based company building AI for healthcare and life sciences, seeks a hands-on executive to lead business operations with a strong finance background. You will oversee accounting, legal coordination, corporate structuring, and cybersecurity policy implementation, driving financial discipline and operational follow-through.

This hybrid, full-time role demands independent judgment, experience managing advisers, and a track record of delivering uninterrupted operational

Qualifications

• Substantial finance or accounting experience with strong understanding of financial statements, bookkeeping, monthly close, cash management, budgeting, and internal controls.
• Experience leading business operations and managing accounting staff, external accountants, or other advisers, with direct responsibility for results.
• Practical experience coordinating business structuring, corporate administration, and legal work with counsel and tax advisers.
• Experience implementing cybersecurity or compliance policies across a business, coordinating technical owners, staff adoption, documentation, and corrective actions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee accounting and bookkeeping, monthly close, payroll, invoicing, collections, budgets, cash forecasts, and payment controls; review reports and resolve discrepancies with accounting staff.
• Manage legal workflows with in-house and outside counsel, including contracts, renewals, corporate records, filing calendars, and follow-through on legal obligations.
• Coordinate business structuring and implement approved entity, subsidiary, ownership, and partnership arrangements with legal and tax advisers, including banking and administrative setup.
• Find, evaluate, and engage accountants, lawyers, cybersecurity consultants, and other specialists; negotiate scopes and fees within approved authority and hold advisers accountable for delivery.
• Drive cybersecurity policy rollout with security and technical teams: staff training, access reviews, onboarding and offboarding, vendor checks, remediation tracking, and incident readiness.
• Run purchasing, vendor administration, people operations, and other business needs; assign owners and deadlines, remove blockers, and report completed work and unresolved decisions.

Skills

Finance experience

Accounting leadership

Budgeting

Internal controls

Cybersecurity policy implementation

Education

CPA/CMA or comparable finance qualification

Job description

Simulation95, a California-based company building AI for healthcare and life sciences, seeks a hands-on executive to lead business operations with a strong finance background. You will oversee accounting, legal coordination, corporate structuring, and cybersecurity policy implementation, driving financial discipline and operational follow-through.

This hybrid, full-time role demands independent judgment, experience managing advisers, and a track record of delivering uninterrupted operational