Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis Aesthetic Medical Device; Bothell, WA

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The Manager, R&D Innovation Finance serves as a Finance Business Partner supporting Solta's Innovation organization, including Research & Development (R&D Engineering), Clinical & Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, and Product Management. The role provides financial planning support, analysis, reporting, and decision support for innovation-related budgets, product development projects, maintenance of business initiatives, clinical and regulatory programs, and product portfolio activities.

Working within established finance processes and policies, this position partners with functional leaders and project teams to support budgeting, forecasting, resource tracking, financial analysis, and management reporting. The role is expected to identify issues, evaluate options, and make recommendations that improve transparency, execution discipline, and operating efficiency.

The Manager also supports Solta's Product Development Program (PDP) Core Team model by providing project-level financial analysis, business case support, spend tracking, and forecast updates. The role works with Program Leads, Program Managers, Product Management, R&D, Regulatory, Clinical & Medical Affairs, Quality, and Supply Chain partners to help ensure project assumptions, investment needs, risks, and financial implications are clearly understood before decisions are made.

The successful candidate will combine strong FP&A fundamentals with practical business partnering skills, supporting innovation leaders with timely analysis, clear reporting, and sound recommendations while operating within the scope, guidance, and priorities established by Finance and business leadership.

• Serve as the Finance Business Partner for R&D, Clinical & Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, and Product Management. Develop strong working relationships with functional teams and provide financial guidance to support approved priorities, operational execution, and effective resource planning.
• Provide financial analysis and recommendations on investment proposals, headcount planning, operating expense management, and resource needs. Translate financial performance and project requirements into clear insights that support informed business decisions.
• Partner with innovation leaders to evaluate project needs, identify financial risks and opportunities, assess resource requirements, and support alignment between functional plans and approved financial commitments.
• Support project and portfolio financial reporting, including dashboards or trackers that summarize spend, forecast, business case assumptions, risks, and financial implications for active NPI and MOB initiatives.
• Partner with Accounting and controllership teams as needed to support close-related analysis, accrual visibility, project cost classification, and forecast-to-actual transparency for innovation-related spend.

• Support planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning activities for innovation-related functions. Ensure plans are supported by clear assumptions, appropriate documentation, and alignment with approved priorities.
• Coordinate forecast submissions and planning activities across R&D, Clinical & Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, and Product Management to ensure consistency, transparency, and accountability. Support leadership in understanding key assumptions, drivers, risks, and opportunities impacting future performance.
• Prepare forward-looking analyses to support project decisions, resource planning recommendations, and portfolio prioritization analysis. Assist leadership in evaluating alternative scenarios and understanding the financial impact of key decisions.

• Serve as the Finance representative on assigned Product Development Core Teams supporting Solta's stage-gate product development process. Partner with Program Leads and Program Managers to support financial planning, business case tracking, and visibility throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Provide Finance input, validation, and recommendations for project budgets, business cases, stage-gate materials, and revenue, ROI, and NPV assumptions while operating within the decision rights established by the PDP Core Team governance model.
• Validate financial assumptions supporting product business cases, including project costs, revenue forecasts, margin expectations, ROI, NPV, launch economics, return expectations, and sensitivity scenarios. Assist teams in identifying financial trade-offs related to scope, timing, regulatory requirements, and…