FP&A Director

Harvard Bioscience is a leading developer, manufacturer and seller of technologies, products and services that enable fundamental research, discovery, and pre-clinical testing for drug development. Our customers range from renowned academic institutions and government laboratories to the world's leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and contract research organizations. With operations in North America, Europe, and China, we sell through a combination of direct and distribution channels to customers around the world. We are a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: HBIO) with $87M in revenue in 2025. A career with Harvard Bioscience is an experience where our employees are energized and aligned to our purpose – Solutions to advance life science. With an experienced leadership team with a track record of delivering growth and accelerated business improvements, HBIO sees an opportunity to drive significant organic growth by leveraging and expanding its deep customer relationships, new product development and an empowered sales force.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Harvard Bioscience is looking for a FP&A Director who is highly skilled and a motivated financial leader. This role is a key strategic partner to leaders across the organization. You will lead and scale our FP&A function, elevate financial rigor and help drive the organizations long term growth strategy through clear insights, strong forecasting and data driven decision support.

This is a high visibility role with significant influence on strategy, performance and operational execution. The role owns our budget and forecasting process as well as direct Operations finance support. You will partner with business and functional leaders to support new business opportunities and new products. Experience operating in a public company environment where accuracy, transparency and responsiveness are paramount and essential. This position will work on-site a minimum of 2-3 days per week in the Boston vicinity. Must have high standards and attention to detail are essential to produce quality work. Experience working in a similar role and with business intelligence tools is a requirement. We are looking for someone with experience building visual dashboards and sharing information using visual tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of annual and long-range plans, monthly and quarterly forecasts, predictive analytics and performance reporting.
• Manage the company's P&L, ensuring leadership has timely visibility into risks, opportunities and performance against targets on monthly, qtly and annual basis through enhanced analytics, dashboards
• Develop and maintain complex models that support strategic investments and guide financial decision-making across the organization.
• Support the stage gate review process for new product introductions (NPI)
• Partner with business leaders to manage operating expenses
• Prepare materials for Board meetings, external investor presentations and senior leadership meetings
• Analyze financial data to identify trends, variances and opportunities for improvement particularly related to operations.
• Support development of new reporting, leveraging our Global Data Warehouse and Power BI.
• Recommend and implement process improvements to strengthen forecasting, reporting and analytics to drive forecast accuracy.
• Lead, mentor and develop a FP&A team, raising expectations and fostering accountability, integrity and transparency.

skills and competencies required

• 12 years of progressive experience including 6-8 years in FP&A
• Experience supporting or leading FP&A in a public company, with a strong understanding of reporting, timing expectations and stakeholder transparency.
• Strong leadership skills with sound judgement and a track record delivering results.
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Highly organized, detail oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• High ethical standards, including; integrity, transparency and trust.
• Demonstrated critical thinking, professional accountability and ownership of outcomes.
• Deep familiarity with financial accounting, modeling and analytics.
• Strong work ethic and willingness to lead projects start to finish

Education and Experience and/or equivalent

• Bachelor's or master's degree in accounting, or finance
• 12+ years of related experience including managing others.

AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER/VETERAN/DISABILITY

FLSA: EXEMPT

ADA Disclaimer

In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to author reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of leaders, clients, customers, and the general public.

Computer Skills

Microsoft Office; Experience with ERP and consolidation systems (JD Edwards a plus) and Power BI