At TrialSpark, the FP&A team is responsible for providing quality and timely insights to the leadership team and key stakeholders to achieve the company’s business goals in a financially sustainable manner. As an FP&A associate at TrialSpark, you will be partnering with accounting and key business stakeholders to develop forecasts, budget to actual reports, and ad-hoc analyses as needed. Additionally, you will be responsible for building out critical processes and infrastructure to ensure the FP&A function scales sustainably and continually provides timely and quality insights to drive company 

Responsibilities

In this position, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Supporting the annual budgeting process and long-term financial planning
• Managing and updating our rolling company forecast based on inputs from accounting, operations, and functional teams
• Setting study-level budgets with our operations teams and working closely with accounting to monitor and review financial performance against budget with P&L owners
• Recommending actionable and measurable KPIs that drive study performance to key stakeholders based on financial insights 
• Assisting in the creation and review of financial reports and analyses with P&L owners, senior management, board of directors, etc.
• Identifying and implementing tools to help the team continually produce high quality and timely reports and analyses as the business scales, e.g. Adaptive
• Providing ad hoc analysis and modeling to support business decisions as needed

Qualifications and Experience

You’d be a great fit for this position if you have 2 - 4 years of relevant experience and:

• Prior finance experience at a Series B / C company preferred
• Prior experience with Adaptive, Host, or other financial planning software preferred
• You can balance multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously
• You are able to clearly communicate complex financial terms to people without a financial background
• You are strong self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity yet drives towards clarity
• You constantly look for ways to improve how we do things