Remote Senior Director of Finance - Biotech Growth

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remoto; USD 260.000 - 380.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Brainchild Bio is seeking a Senior Director of Finance to own the finance engine and partner with R&D, product operations, clinical, and business ops leaders. This hands-on leadership role will establish scalable processes, systems, and controls as the company grows from Series A toward late-stage financing and eventual public readiness.

You will lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, while managing cash runway, reporting, and major contracts.

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• 12+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including 4+ years in a senior leadership role.
• Experience in venture-backed biotech or life sciences, including clinical trial accruals and R&D cost accounting.
• Solid foundation of US GAAP, close management, and internal controls.
• Proven business partnering record: budgets, forecasts, and variance analysis for leaders.
• Hands-on with ERP and spend tools and advanced Excel modeling.
• Experience managing audits and outside advisors.

Mansioni

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range operating planning processes with all business functions, partnering with the executive team to meet established targets.
• Drive the process for rationalizing department investments within the established frameworks; maintain visibility into cash runway and other financial goals.
• Prepare board and investor reporting packages, KPIs, and management dashboards.
• Support financing and business development activities, including diligence, data rooms, and grant or non-dilutive funding reporting.
• Serve as the finance business partner to R&D, CMC and product operations, clinical and G&A leaders.
• Provide and review quarterly budget/forecast-vs-actual analyses with each function and understand key business drivers; give clear, timely insight into trends and variances.
• Model program costs, clinical trial budgets, and headcount plans to support portfolio and resourcing decisions.
• Review and support major contracts for financial terms and business impact such as operational efficiency and cost-savings opportunities.
• Provide oversight of all accounting operations (financial close, procure-to-pay, payroll, financial reporting; equity administration).
• Manage cash, treasury, and banking relationships; produce rolling cash and runway forecasts.
• Oversee R&D and clinical trial accruals in partnership with clinical operations and CRO/CDMO partners.
• Build and document internal controls appropriate for a growing private company, with a path to SOX readiness.
• Coordinate 409A valuations, tax compliance, corporate insurance programs and future external audits with outside advisors.
• Build, lead, and develop a lean finance and accounting team, using outsourced partners where it makes sense.
• Own the finance tech stack (ERP, AP automation, expense, spend management) and integrations with HRIS and payroll.
• Establish and improve finance policies, processes, and spend controls across the company that will support organizational growth and increasing complexity.

Conoscenze

ERP experience

Excel modeling

Budgeting & forecasting

Financial analysis

Cross-functional partnering

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance

Strumenti

ERP software

Spend management tools

Financial reporting systems

Descrizione del lavoro

Brainchild Bio is seeking a Senior Director of Finance to own the finance engine and partner with R&D, product operations, clinical, and business ops leaders. This hands-on leadership role will establish scalable processes, systems, and controls as the company grows from Series A toward late-stage financing and eventual public readiness.

You will lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, while managing cash runway, reporting, and major contracts.