The Team

Across our work in Science, Education, and within our communities, we pair technology with grantmaking, impact investing, and collaboration to help accelerate the pace of progress toward our mission. Our Operations organization provides the support needed to push this work forward.  Operations consists of our Brand & Communications, Central Tech, Finance, People, Real Estate/Workplace/Events/Facilities/Security (REWFS), Strategy & Operations, and Ventures teams. These teams provide the essential operations, services, and strategies needed to support CZI’s progress toward achieving its mission to build a better future for everyone.

The Opportunity

The FP&A team partners closely with leaders across CZI to translate strategy into actionable financial plans, deliver decision-ready insights, and ensure strong financial stewardship.

This Senior Financial Analyst will support both Learning Commons and select Central functions in a shared FP&A model. The role will report to the Director of Finance, Learning Commons, and work closely in partnership with the Director of FP&A for Central. Together, Finance leadership will jointly guide priorities and scope to ensure strong support across both portfolios.

This position sits at the center of operational finance execution — owning the core financial rhythms across Opex and People spend (planning, forecasting, reporting, and close support) that enable leadership to focus on long-term strategy and impact.

This is an ideal opportunity for a high-performing analyst who is energized by leveraging AI and automation to modernize how finance work gets done. You will play a foundational role in transforming our finance processes — applying AI-enabled tools, intelligent automation, and systems thinking to drive efficiency, accuracy, and scale across recurring workflows and reporting.

We are looking for someone who is excited to build, optimize, and continuously improve — not just maintain — the way finance work gets done, and who sees AI as a core part of how modern finance teams operate.

What You'll Do

• Own day-to-day financial management across Opex, Grants, and People spend, ensuring accurate tracking, forecasting, and reporting across supported functions.
• Manage budget vs. actuals analysis across operating expenses, grant commitments, and headcount-related spend; proactively identify risks, variances, and emerging trends and surface insights to Finance leadership.
• Support annual planning and reforecast cycles, building detailed financial models and partnering with stakeholders to translate operational inputs into structured financial forecasts.
• Oversee grants financial tracking and forecasting, including commitment pacing, multi-year outlooks, and coordination with Accounting to ensure accurate reporting.
• Support People cost forecasting, including headcount tracking, new hire modeling, and compensation-related expense management in partnership with business leaders and People teams.
• Drive monthly close activities, including accrual preparation across Opex and reconciliation across systems to ensure data integrity.
• Lead the identification and implementation of AI-driven and automation improvements across recurring finance processes — including accrual workflows, forecast updates, headcount tracking, and reporting packages — with a focus on reducing manual effort, improving accuracy, and building scalable solutions.
• Actively leverage AI tools in day-to-day finance work, from drafting variance narratives and summarizing stakeholder-ready insights to accelerating model builds and streamlining repetitive analytical tasks.
• Build and enhance scalable reporting infrastructure, leveraging Adaptive, Workday, Salesforce, Excel/Sheets, and other tools to reduce manual work and improve data transparency.
• Develop dashboards and self-service reporting tools that empower stakeholders and reduce ad hoc requests over time.

What You'll Bring

• 5–7 years of Finance experience, including progressive experience in an FP&A role, ideally within a complex, fast-paced, or growth-oriented organization.
• Exceptional analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills; thinks critically and connects financial outcomes to operational drivers.
• Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills in working with business partners and cross-functional stakeholders; able to communicate financial insights clearly and constructively.
• Strong results orientation and bias to action; self-starter who works independently, demonstrates initiative, flexibility, and maturity under pressure, and effectively manages competing priorities.
• Experience working with Adaptive Planning (or comparable forecasting software), Workday Financials (or similar ERP systems), and Salesforce, with strong proficiency in Excel and Google Suite (Sheets, Docs, Slides).
• Demonstrated hands-on experience applying AI tools and automation to finance workflows — such as using AI assistants to accelerate analysis, drafting, and reporting; building automated data pipelines or recurring reporting; or deploying AI-enabled solutions to improve forecast reliability and process efficiency. Comfort experimenting with and adopting new AI tools as they evolve is essential.
• A forward-looking mindset toward AI in finance: understands how AI is reshaping FP&A and is eager to be at the forefront of that shift — not just using available tools, but actively identifying where AI can drive the most value across the finance function.

Compensation

The Redwood City, CA base pay range for a new hire in this role is $106,000 - $146,300. New hires are typically hired into the lower portion of the range, enabling employee growth in the range over time. Actual placement in range is based on job-related skills and experience, as evaluated throughout the interview process. 

This position may be eligible to participate in CZI's discretionary annual performance bonus program. Bonus eligibility and targets are determined in accordance with CZI's total rewards philosophy and may vary by role.

Better Together

As we grow, we’re excited to strengthen in-person connections and cultivate a collaborative, team-oriented environment. This role is a hybrid position requiring you to be onsite for at least 60% of the working month, approximately 3 days a week, with specific in-office days determined by the team’s manager. The exact schedule will be at the hiring manager's discretion and communicated during the interview process.

Benefits for the Whole You 

We’re thankful to have an incredible team behind our work. To honor their commitment, we offer a wide range of benefits to support the people who make all we do possible. 

• Provides a generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.
• Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice. 
• Funding for select family-forming benefits. 
• Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving

If you’re interested in a role but your previous experience doesn’t perfectly align with each qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply as you may be the perfect fit for this or another role.

 

The Team

The Operations team is a key partner in enabling Biohub’s pioneering work to combine frontier AI with frontier biology to solve disease and Learning Commons’ mission to build AI infrastructure that aligns how students learn with the tools that shape their learning experiences.

Operations includes our Central Tech, Finance, Marketing & Communications, People, and Real Estate / Workplace / Events / Facilities / Security (REWFS) teams. Together, these teams create the systems, programs, and experiences that empower our partners and colleagues across Biohub and Learning Commons to drive impact. 

This work requires strategic and operational rigor, creativity, and deep collaboration. Whether designing world-class employee experiences, safeguarding data and infrastructure, or shaping how we communicate our impact, Operations plays a critical role in helping deliver meaningful change at scale.

The Opportunity

The Finance team ensures the accuracy and completeness of financial information across CZI, Biohub, and Learning Commons. We are building a world-class accounting function and strive for excellence in a complex and highly dynamic environment. Our goal is to maximize systems like Workday, Salesforce, as well as leverage AI to streamline processes and deliver high-quality reporting to both internal and external stakeholders.

As Senior Accountant, you will report to the Director of Accounting Close & Consolidation, and will be responsible for helping to prepare and review month end close transactions. You should have strong experience in the preparation and review of areas such as payroll, cash, accruals, fixed assets, prepaid expenses, leases, intercompany payables/receivables, AP, and T&E accruals. Familiarity with a multi-entity organization is preferred. 

In addition to month-end close, you will also assist in various projects and tasks such as internal reporting, process documentation, accounting memorandums, and audit support. Note that this role is not responsible for internal controls ownership or audit preparation; you will contribute to audit support by providing schedules, documentation, and responses to auditor requests as needed. 

You should also be familiar with and successful at using and trouble-shooting ERP software. Experience with Workday is a plus but not required. You will work with various teams at CZI and external partners including  FP&A, Accounting Operations, Payroll, Corporate Accounting, Legal, Facilities, IT and external consultants. It is important that you have experience working with a variety of teams and partners and have a collaborative mindset.

We are looking for someone who has worked in a dynamic, fast paced  environment, and is excited by the prospect of being involved in the creation of new processes and procedures. An ideal background would be experience at a top public accounting firm and additional experience with month-end close in the tech industry or another fast-paced, high-growth industry.  A CPA license (active or inactive)  is also required.

A successful candidate will have experience working with a variety of accounting topics and knowledge of accounting guidance (GAAP). You must have experience in independent project management and be able to execute a project from start to finish.  You should also have demonstrated experience using AI tools in a professional accounting context—such as AI-assisted reconciliations, automated journal entry support, or AI-powered analytics—and a genuine interest in continuing to leverage AI and automation to improve close processes. 

What You'll Do

• Prepare complex journal entries and reconciliations for multiple entities, manage detailed workbooks and perform analytics, detailed review of month-end transactions
• Assist with review and maintenance of general ledger and month-end journal entries; help monitor accuracy and compliance with GAAP and accounting regulations
• Leverage Workday, Salesforce, and other systems—including AI-powered tools—to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of month-end close and reporting processes 
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive accounting workflows using AI or scripting, and partner with IT/BST to implement them

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of relevant accounting experience
• CPA license required (active or inactive)
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to ask thoughtful, probing questions
• Experience operating in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities
• A collaborative approach and experience partnering cross-functionally
• Experience with month-end close activities, detailed review and analysis
• Strong excel skills, ability to prepare complex formulas, pivot tables, etc. 
• Familiarity with Workday (a plus)  

Compensation

The Redwood City, CA base pay range for a new hire in this role is $106,000 - $146,300. New hires are typically hired into the lower portion of the range, enabling employee growth in the range over time. Actual placement in range is based on job-related skills and experience, as evaluated throughout the interview process. 

This position may be eligible to participate in our discretionary annual performance bonus program. Bonus eligibility and targets are determined in accordance with our total rewards philosophy and may vary by role.

Better Together

As we grow, we’re excited to strengthen in-person connections and cultivate a collaborative, team-oriented environment. This role is a hybrid position requiring you to be onsite for at least 60% of the working month, approximately 3 days a week, with specific in-office days determined by the team’s manager. The exact schedule will be at the hiring manager's discretion and communicated during the interview process.

Benefits for the Whole You 

We’re thankful to have an incredible team behind our work. To honor their commitment, we offer a wide range of benefits to support the people who make all we do possible. 

• Provides a generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.
• Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice. 
• Funding for select family-forming benefits. 
• Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving

If you’re interested in a role but your previous experience doesn’t perfectly align with each qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply as you may be the perfect fit for this or another role.

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