Senior Financial Analyst

The Senior Financial Analyst will be responsible for overseeing the R&D Function day-to-day financial operations, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis. The role will partner closely with the R&D leaders to provide actionable financial insights, improve financial discipline, and support strategic decision-making.

The ideal candidate will combine strong accounting fundamentals with commercial and analytical capabilities and will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Own the annual planning cycle for the function end to end, including the calendar, templates, cost definitions, and the consolidated plan submitted to the Head of Finance and Strategy.

• Build the scenario and sensitivity models that inform investment, headcount, and procurement decisions, and frame the trade-offs for the leaders who decide.

• Challenge the business assumptions behind functional plans with R&D and Product leaders, and quantify the financial consequences of the alternatives.

• Judge which variances matter, decide how they are investigated, and take the resulting recommendations to functional leadership.

• Set the reporting standards, cost definitions, and analytical tooling that the function's recurring reporting and analysis are produced within.

• Resolve non-routine costing and accounting treatment questions where no established precedent applies, and document the position taken.

• Raise the standard of financial analysis across the function by reviewing the work of others and mentoring less experienced colleagues.

• Advise on the financial structure of new initiatives and programs, including how they will be measured once approved.

• Represent the function's financial position to stakeholders outside finance, including at leadership forums.

• Improve the control environment, data integrity, and automation for the function's planning and reporting, agreeing changes with the accounting team.

PLEASE NOTE: This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and requirements of the position described above. Other functions may be assigned and management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Minimum Qualifications, Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field (required)

• CA, CFA, MBA, or equivalent qualification (preferred)

• Experience

o 6 years of overall finance or accounting experience (required)

o 3 years of financial planning and analysis experience, including ownership of a planning or forecast cycle (required)

o 2 years supporting an R&D, engineering, or product organization (preferred)

• Skills, Knowledge, Abilities

o Scenario and sensitivity modeling that frames decisions for leaders outside finance (required)

o Judgment on non-routine costing and treatment questions that have no established precedent (required)

o Setting reporting standards, cost definitions, and analytical tooling for a function (required)

o Influencing functional leaders and testing the assumptions behind their plans (required)

o Advanced Excel or Google Sheets, and ERP and financial reporting systems (required)

o Reviewing the work of others and mentoring less experienced colleagues (required)

o Experience in a SaaS, technology, healthcare, or high-growth company (preferred)

o BI and reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau (preferred)

Quality Standards

• Communicates, cooperates, and consistently functions professionally and harmoniously with all levels of supervision, co-workers, visitors, and vendors.

• Demonstrates initiative, personal awareness, professionalism and integrity, and exercises confidentiality in all areas of performance.

• Follows all local, regional and country laws concerning employment.

• Follows all DeepHealth policies and procedures.

• Follows data privacy, compliance, safety and confidentiality standards at all times.

• Practices universal safety precautions.

• Promotes good public relations on the phone and in person.

• Adapts and is willing to learn new tasks, methods, and systems.

• Reports to work regularly as scheduled; consistently punctual with respect to working hours, meal and rest breaks, and maintains satisfactory personal attendance in accordance with DeepHealth guidelines.

• Completes job responsibilities in a quality and timely manner.

Travel

This position requires limited domestic and international travel, up to 10%. To be confirmed with the hiring manager.

Working Environment

Hybrid

Physical Demands

This position often requires sitting, standing, walking, bending, twisting, reaching with hands and arms, using hands and fingers, handling, or feeling, speaking, listening, and high-level cognitive thinking. Also, must be able to lift up to 10 pounds occasionally.