Associate Director, FP&A
Cytokinetics
September 03, 2026
Remote friendly (San Francisco Bay Area)
United States
Corporate Functions
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary finance business partner to assigned Commercial functions (Sales, Marketing, Patient Treatment Experience, Commercial Operations and Strategy), providing financial insight and counsel.
- Lead the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and long-range plan for commercial operating expenses and headcount.
- Deliver budget-to-actual variance analysis, explaining spend drivers and recommending actions to improve forecast accuracy and resource allocation.
- Provide decision support on commercial investment trade-offs (field force sizing, promotional/market access investment, launch readiness, and business cases for new indications/projects).
- Serve as a trusted advisor by identifying financial risks/opportunities, challenging assumptions, and translating priorities into actionable recommendations.
- Prepare executive-level presentations and analyses for Finance leadership and senior business leaders (including Board and operating expense guidance/earnings inputs).
- Build scalable planning infrastructure (models, dashboards, reporting, repeatable close and forecast processes).
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline; MBA a plus.
- 10+ years of progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience, including commercial finance business partnering.
- Commercial-stage biotechnology or pharmaceutical experience.
- Demonstrated experience supporting Commercial functions on operating expense and headcount management.
- Advanced financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting; ability to build structure in a rapidly scaling environment.
- Strong executive communication; advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Demonstrated use of AI-assisted tools in daily business processes.
Preferred:
- Product launch or first-years-of-commercialization experience at a newly commercial biotech.
- Familiarity with specialty pharmacy/distributor channels; Medicare/Medicaid rebate programs, 340B, and copay assistance.
Location: South San Francisco, CA (Hybrid; 3 days minimum on-site).
- Serve as the primary finance business partner to assigned Commercial functions (Sales, Marketing, Patient Treatment Experience, Commercial Operations and Strategy), providing financial insight and counsel.
- Lead the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and long-range plan for commercial operating expenses and headcount.
- Deliver budget-to-actual variance analysis, explaining spend drivers and recommending actions to improve forecast accuracy and resource allocation.
- Provide decision support on commercial investment trade-offs (field force sizing, promotional/market access investment, launch readiness, and business cases for new indications/projects).
- Serve as a trusted advisor by identifying financial risks/opportunities, challenging assumptions, and translating priorities into actionable recommendations.
- Prepare executive-level presentations and analyses for Finance leadership and senior business leaders (including Board and operating expense guidance/earnings inputs).
- Build scalable planning infrastructure (models, dashboards, reporting, repeatable close and forecast processes).
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline; MBA a plus.
- 10+ years of progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience, including commercial finance business partnering.
- Commercial-stage biotechnology or pharmaceutical experience.
- Demonstrated experience supporting Commercial functions on operating expense and headcount management.
- Advanced financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting; ability to build structure in a rapidly scaling environment.
- Strong executive communication; advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Demonstrated use of AI-assisted tools in daily business processes.
Preferred:
- Product launch or first-years-of-commercialization experience at a newly commercial biotech.
- Familiarity with specialty pharmacy/distributor channels; Medicare/Medicaid rebate programs, 340B, and copay assistance.
Location: South San Francisco, CA (Hybrid; 3 days minimum on-site).