R&D Finance Manager - AI-Driven Forecasts & Budgets

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Function Health seeks an analytical and execution-oriented Finance Manager, R&D to join the Finance team and partner with the R&D organization. This role translates evolving business needs into forecasts, budgets, and actionable insights, sitting at the intersection of Finance, technology, and R&D.

Ideal candidates have strong modeling and budgeting experience, and comfort building processes to support fast-moving initiatives in a health tech startup environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of FP&A, Financial Operations, or related finance role.
• Experience partnering with technical/operational teams (R&D, Engineering, Product, Data, AI/ML).
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills; advanced Excel/Google Sheets.

Responsibilities

• R&D Finance Business Partnership: support budgeting, forecasting, planning and reporting.
• Forecasting & Budgeting: own detailed forecasts and budgets for the R&D organization.
• Performance Reporting & Insights: improve forecast accuracy with stakeholders.
• Financial Modeling: build models translating inputs into financial outputs for new initiatives.
• Headcount Planning: work with People team to model headcount investments.
• Executive & Leadership Reporting: prepare materials for Board/investor presentations.
• Operational Finance: monitor actuals vs forecast and adjust assumptions.
• Process Building: improve budgeting, forecasting and reporting workflows.
• Planning Systems & Tools: support budgeting/planning system rollout and optimization.
• Cross-Functional Execution: coordinate across Finance, Accounting, People, R&D, Product, Medical Intelligence Lab.
• AI-Forward Finance: use AI to improve processes and insights.

Skills

FP&A

Financial Operations

Business Finance

Budgeting

Forecasting

Financial Modeling

Excel/Sheets

AI in Finance

Cross-Functional Partnership

Communication

Tools

Pigment

Job description

Function Health seeks an analytical and execution-oriented Finance Manager, R&D to join the Finance team and partner with the R&D organization. This role translates evolving business needs into forecasts, budgets, and actionable insights, sitting at the intersection of Finance, technology, and R&D.

Ideal candidates have strong modeling and budgeting experience, and comfort building processes to support fast-moving initiatives in a health tech startup environment.