Benchling

Benchling

Head of Strategic Finance

San Francisco, CA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 55 days ago
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About the role

  • Benchling is rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
  • Our platform brings together scientific data, workflows, and AI to help biotechnology companies move from research to breakthrough faster.
  • We're looking for a Head of Strategic Finance to help shape Benchling's next stage of growth.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the executive team to evaluate company priorities, investment choices, growth opportunities, and tradeoffs.
  • Build a clear understanding of the drivers of revenue, retention, gross margin, operating leverage, cash flow, and other key SaaS metrics.
  • Develop financial models and business cases for strategic initiatives, including new products, pricing, go-to-market investments, partnerships, and market expansion.
  • Create executive and Board reporting that turns financial and operating data into clear insights, risks, and recommended actions.
  • Partner with Accounting and functional finance leaders to ensure forecasts and management reporting are accurate, consistent, and decision-useful.
  • Drive continuous process improvement across the team that ensures forecasts grow more and more accurate, reporting more timely and preparation more efficient as the team scales.
  • Lead and develop a high-performing strategic finance team that can scale with the company.

Requirements

  • Experience supporting a company through significant scale, business-model evolution, or preparation for the public markets.
  • Track record of influencing major business decisions through clear analysis, strong judgment, and business acumen.
  • Deep fluency in SaaS business models and the metrics that drive durable growth, retention, and operating efficiency.
  • A tech-forward mindset that enthusiastically explores new tools and processes as means to improve business insight and team experience.
  • Led company-wide planning, forecasting, and long-range modeling in partnership with executives and functional leaders.
  • Moves from complex financial and operational data to a concise narrative and a clear recommendation.
  • Effective executive communicator who is comfortable presenting to senior leadership and Boards.
  • Builds strong relationships across functions and can challenge assumptions while maintaining trust.
  • Led and developed strong teams, raising the quality of both the work and the people around you.
  • Operate with high integrity, sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and a strong sense of ownership.
  • We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).
  • #LI-Hybrid

Nice to have

  • Significant experience in strategic finance, FP&A, or a related finance leadership role within enterprise software or another complex, high-growth business. experience at a growth-stage enterprise SaaS company is a plus

Skills

  • When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits.
  • Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps.
  • AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years.
  • But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
  • Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D.

Compensation

  • Reports to CFO, leading Benchling's annual planning, forecasting, and long-range financial planning processes.

Company info

  • We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
  • We're looking for a business-oriented finance leader who can move comfortably between the details and the bigger picture.
  • You will work closely with our CFO, executive team and leaders across the company to translate strategy into financial plans, guide our most important investment decisions, and create a clear view of business performance.
  • This role sits at the intersection of finance, strategy, and company execution.
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