Company Overview

At Azenta, new ideas, new technologies and new ways of thinking are driving our future. Our customer-focused culture encourages employees to embrace innovation and challenge the status quo with novel thinking and collaborative work relationships.

Azenta Life Sciences is a global leader in the life sciences space with headquarters in Burlington, MA, and offices and operations worldwide. We are a market leader in automated bio sample management solutions and genomic services across areas such as drug development, clinical and advanced cell therapies for the industry's top pharmaceutical, biotech, academic and healthcare institutions globally. We provide unparalleled capabilities with our lab analysis, sample management and storage services, informatics software, and consumables, with the largest installed base managing over 1 billion samples globally.

How You’ll Add Value...

Azenta Life Sciences is seeking a Financial Planning & Analysis Leader to join our growing and dynamic organization. This position will provide overall FP&A leadership and guidance to this fast-growing public company.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing timely and insightful financial analysis to senior leadership and the Board of Directors. The candidate will lead the multi-year strategic and annual operating plans, monitor progress against these plans, and build business cases for new opportunities in this fast-growing business. This position will also be responsible for developing and implementing business analytics and intelligence tools to improve financial processes and analytical capabilities. The candidate will also be responsible for improving the FP&A skill set across the organization and mentor/develop the extended finance team. The person will support special projects as required to support decision making.

What You’ll Do...

• Act as a trusted business partner and provide sound financial guidance and proactive business insights.
• Lead the annual operating plan and the strategic multi-year plan cycles. Collaborate cross-functionally to compile and analyze forecasts, including key operational drivers.
• Provide proactive monitoring & insights into performance against plans; develop leading indicators in partnership with operating team. Develop a deep understanding of the business units to connect operations and finance,
• Use technology to build out data analytics and business intelligence capabilities, meaningful reporting tools, and continuously enhance business systems.
• Enhance processes through standardization and consistency. Educate the organization and roll out proactive analytical capabilities.
• Collaborate with Investor Relations on external financial communications and messaging.
• Provide oversight to Commercial Finance team and develop best practices to support the commercial organization.
• Prepare business cases and analysis for key decisions (e.g. growth into new products / locations), including assessment of M&A opportunities.

What you will Bring...

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree strongly preferred
• 10+ years of multi-faceted finance experience
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; proven ability to influence and collaborate
• Prior FP&A experience is preferred
• Advanced skills in the following areas:
• Highly proficient in digital tools (Excel, Ppt), ERPs (Oracle, NetSuite), HFM, OneStream, data analytics tools (Tableau, etc.)
  • Financial analytics
  • Project management

Working Conditions/ Schedule

• Typical office environment
• May be asked to travel occasionally (anticipated to be around 10%)

EOE M/F/Disabled/VET

Azenta Life Sciences is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal Employment Opportunity

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do our utmost to ensure that there is no discrimination or bias against anyone applying for a job or in any phase of employment for reasons related to race, color, religion, gender, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, military service, sexual orientation, genetic information, or gender identity.

We welcome and value diversity, to ensure that our work benefits from a broad range of viewpoints and perspectives. Our growing global reach gives us the opportunity to bring to our business an even richer diversity of experiences and capabilities. For assistance in the application process, please reach out to Recruiting@azenta.com or call (978) 262-2400. Review EEO Poster Know Your Rights: WOrkplace Discrimination is Illegal (dol.gov)

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Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Statement

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

41 CFR 60-1.35(c)