Margin and Operations Finance Manager

Baylor Genetics•,

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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 versus variable cost structures, gross margin, standard costs, and operational-driver modeling.
Demonstrated ability to build cost-to-serve, capacity, productivity, business-case, and scenario models.
Experience partnering directly with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, or technical leaders and constructively challenging operating assumptions.
Advanced Excel and financial-modeling skills; Workday Adaptive Planning or comparable EPM experience preferred.
Experience analyzing labor, materials/reagents, consumables, logistics, send-outs, and other operational cost drivers strongly preferred.
Ability to distinguish accounting variance from underlying operational economics and translate findings into management actions.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex margin and operational issues to senior leadership.

Nice To Haves

MBA or advanced degree preferred.
diagnostics, laboratory, manufacturing, healthcare operations, or another high-volume operating environment preferred.
Workday Adaptive Planning or comparable EPM experience preferred.
Experience analyzing labor, materials/reagents, consumables, logistics, send-outs, and other operational cost drivers strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Own the forward-looking FP&A forecast for cost of services using volume, labor, reagent, consumable, send-out, logistics, and other relevant operational drivers.
Translate revenue and operating assumptions into gross-margin outlooks by major test type, platform, or other meaningful business dimension.
Develop and maintain cost-per-test and cost-to-serve models that identify the true economic drivers of delivering major testing services.
Quantify and monitor key fixed, variable, and semi-variable cost drivers and their relationship to testing volumes and mix.
Model laboratory capacity, throughput, utilization, and incremental capacity requirements under forecasted demand scenarios.
Analyze staffing, overtime, throughput, labor utilization, and productivity; connect operational measures to labor cost and margin outcomes.
Analyze utilization, yield, waste, purchase economics, and volume sensitivity for significant reagents and consumables.
Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement to evaluate sourcing, purchasing, inventory, and vendor initiatives from a forward-looking financial perspective.
Produce integrated gross-margin bridges separating ASP, volume, mix, labor, material, productivity, and other cost effects.
Explain actual versus budget/forecast COS and margin performance and distinguish operational causes from accounting or timing effects.
Establish financial baselines, validate business cases, and track realized savings from automation, workflow redesign, sourcing, insourcing/outsourcing, and other margin initiatives.
Evaluate equipment, automation, capacity expansion, insourcing/outsourcing, and other operating investments using ROI, payback, NPV, and scenario analysis where appropriate.
Develop leading financial and operational indicators that provide early warning of cost, capacity, and margin pressure.
Track COS and gross-margin forecast accuracy and improve underlying operating assumptions and driver relationships.
Maintain quantified margin risks and opportunities and integrate material items into enterprise forecasting.
Participate in operating reviews and translate operational performance into financial implications, actions, and forecast changes.
Prepare margin, cost, and operational-performance analyses for executive reviews, forecasts, and Board materials.
Partner with FP&A Systems & BI to embed cost drivers, operational assumptions, and margin reporting into Adaptive and governed BI tools.