Margin and Operations Finance Manager

JOB SUMMARY The Manager, Margin & Operations Finance will serve as FP&A's primary finance partner to laboratory operations and related operating functions. The role will establish forward-looking visibility into cost of services, gross margin, cost-to-serve, capacity, labor productivity, reagent and consumable utilization, supply-chain economics, and operational improvement initiatives. The Manager will translate operating activity into financial outcomes and support decisions that improve scalability and margin while maintaining a clear separation from Controllership's ownership of historical cost accounting, inventory valuation, accounting policy, and close activities. KEY RESPONSIBILITES COS Forecasting: Own the forward-looking FP&A forecast for cost of services using volume, labor, reagent, consumable, send-out, logistics, and other relevant operational drivers. Gross Margin Planning: Translate revenue and operating assumptions into gross-margin outlooks by major test type, platform, or other meaningful business dimension. Cost-to-Serve: Develop and maintain cost-per-test and cost-to-serve models that identify the true economic drivers of delivering major testing services. Cost Driver Analytics: Quantify and monitor key fixed, variable, and semi-variable cost drivers and their relationship to testing volumes and mix. Capacity Planning: Model laboratory capacity, throughput, utilization, and incremental capacity requirements under forecasted demand scenarios. Labor Productivity: Analyze staffing, overtime, throughput, labor utilization, and productivity; connect operational measures to labor cost and margin outcomes. Reagent and Consumable Economics: Analyze utilization, yield, waste, purchase economics, and volume sensitivity for significant reagents and consumables. Supply Chain Finance: Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement to evaluate sourcing, purchasing, inventory, and vendor initiatives from a forward-looking financial perspective. Margin Bridges: Produce integrated gross-margin bridges separating ASP, volume, mix, labor, material, productivity, and other cost effects. Operational Variance Analysis: Explain actual versus budget/forecast COS and margin performance and distinguish operational causes from accounting or timing effects. Cost Reduction and Automation Initiatives: Establish financial baselines, validate business cases, and track realized savings from automation, workflow redesign, sourcing, insourcing/outsourcing, and other margin initiatives. Business Cases: Evaluate equipment, automation, capacity expansion, insourcing/outsourcing, and other operating investments using ROI, payback, NPV, and scenario analysis where appropriate. Operational KPIs: Develop leading financial and operational indicators that provide early warning of cost, capacity, and margin pressure. Forecast Accuracy: Track COS and gross-margin forecast accuracy and improve underlying operating assumptions and driver relationships. Risks and Opportunities: Maintain quantified margin risks and opportunities and integrate material items into enterprise forecasting. Operations Partnership: Participate in operating reviews and translate operational performance into financial implications, actions, and forecast changes. Executive and Board Support: Prepare margin, cost, and operational-performance analyses for executive reviews, forecasts, and Board materials. Systems Enablement: Partner with FP&A Systems & BI to embed cost drivers, operational assumptions, and margin reporting into Adaptive and governed BI tools. QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Operations, or related field required; MBA or advanced degree preferred. Typically 7+ years of progressive FP&A, operations finance, cost analytics, or strategic-finance experience; diagnostics, laboratory, manufacturing, healthcare operations, or another high-volume operating environment preferred. Strong knowledge of cost behavior, fixed ve…

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