Senior Finance Associate

Success Matcher Recruitment; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Our client, an early-stage life sciences company, seeks a finance professional to own core financial processes and help build the finance infrastructure. You’ll work directly with leadership to drive month-end close, forecasting, and investor materials in a fast-paced biotech setting.

You’ll develop models, accompany strategic decisions with scenario analyses, and support fundraising efforts as the company scales.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in finance operations, accounting, FP&A, or related finance function.
• Build financial models from scratch, not just maintain templates.
• End-to-end ownership of month-end close, including reconciliations and journal entries.
• Advanced proficiency with Excel or Google Sheets.
• Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals and financial analysis.
• Analytical, detail-oriented, and autonomous.
• Excellent communication skills for executive audiences.
• Experience in a fast-moving startup or biotech environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the month-end close and financial reporting process, including reconciliations.
• Build financial models from scratch: production cost, unit economics, margin, runway, profitability.
• Develop forecasts and scenario analyses to support strategic decisions.
• Prepare board packages, investor updates, and fundraising materials.
• Oversee accounts payable/receivable and coordinate with outsourced bookkeeping.
• Support additional operations finance initiatives as the business grows.

Skills

Financial modeling

Month-end close

Financial analysis

Executive communication

Autonomous work

Startup environment experience

Strong accounting fundamentals

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

Job description

Our client is an early-stage life sciences company combining advanced diagnostics, immunology, and technology to help improve decision-making across clinical trials and drug development. The company has already achieved meaningful commercial traction, supports 30+ clinical trials, has grown revenue approximately 300% year-over-year, and is scaling from a lean team of approximately 13 employees.

Why This Is a Great Opportunity

This is not a traditional back-office finance position. You'll work directly with the CEO and have the opportunity to own critical financial processes while helping build the finance infrastructure of a rapidly scaling company. You'll have exposure to financial strategy, forecasting, unit economics, board reporting, investor communications, and future fundraising—with the potential to grow into broader finance leadership as the organization scales.

What You'll Do

• Own the month-end close and financial reporting process, including reconciliations and financial statement accuracy.
• Build financial models from scratch, including production cost, unit economics, margin, runway, and profitability models.
• Develop forecasts and scenario analyses to support strategic business decisions.
• Prepare board packages, investor updates, and fundraising materials.
• Oversee accounts payable/receivable and coordinate with the company's outsourced bookkeeping partner.
• Support additional operational finance initiatives such as supply forecasting, compensation modeling, and cap table management as the business grows.

What We're Looking For

• 3–5 years of experience in finance operations, accounting, FP&A, or a related finance function.
• Demonstrated ability to build financial models from scratch—not simply maintain existing templates.
• Direct, end‑to‑end ownership of month‑end close, including reconciliations, accruals, journal entries, and financial statement accuracy.
• Advanced proficiency with Excel and/or Google Sheets.
• Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals and financial analysis.
• Highly analytical, detail‑oriented, and comfortable working autonomously.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate financial information for executives and other non‑finance stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in a fast‑moving, high‑ownership startup environment.
• Biotech, life sciences, diagnostics, pharmaceutical, clinical trials, CRO, or healthcare experience is highly preferred.

The Ideal Candidate

You'll likely thrive here if you're the kind of finance professional who enjoys building rather than inheriting. You can start with a blank spreadsheet, create a defensible model, dig into the numbers when something doesn't reconcile, and confidently explain the financial implications to leadership.

Experience within an early-stage biotech, life sciences, healthcare technology, diagnostics, CRO, or similarly complex startup environment would be especially valuable