Sr. Financial Analyst - R&D

Overview

Tandem Diabetes Care creates new possibilities for people living with diabetes, their loved ones, and their healthcare providers through a positively different experience. We’d love for you to team up with us to “innovate every day,” put “people first,” and take the “no-shortcuts” approach that has propelled us to become a leader in the diabetes technology industry.

Tandem Diabetes Care is proud to manufacture and sell the Tandem Mobi system and t:slim X2 insulin pump with Control-IQ+ technology — an advanced predictive algorithm that automates insulin delivery. Our company’s human-centered approach to design, development, and support delivers innovative products and services for people who use insulin. Because many of our own team members live with diabetes, or have a loved one impacted by diabetes, the work is personal, and we are committed to the cause.

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a Day In The Life This Sr. Financial Analyst I is a key member of the Financial Planning & Analysis team supporting the Research & Development function, responsible for developing and maintaining effective financial planning, reporting, and analysis processes. The role generates meaningful analytics and communicates insights that enable strong financial decision-making across the R&D organization. Key responsibilities include managing periodic results, evaluating new development opportunities, and partnering with R&D teams across the full product development lifecycle, from ideation through post-market surveillance.

The role requires the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, developing long-range, risk-adjusted financial views that account for technical, regulatory, and timing variability inherent in R&D programs.

• Partner with R&D teams throughout the development lifecycle and stage gates, from ideation through post market surveillance, providing relevant metrics to R&D leadership at each stage.
• Develop and maintain long-range financial forecasts for R&D programs, incorporating technical, regulatory, and market uncertainty through scenario analysis and risk-adjusted assumptions to support disciplined, long-term investment decisions.
• Partner with the R&D function to lead and support budgeting, forecasting, and reporting process including headcount, operating expenses and capital expenditures.
• Serve as a strategic finance partner to R&D Executive leadership, influencing decisions through KPI development and financial insights, balancing short-term company needs against longer-term innovation.
• Forecast and track cost-to-complete by program and workstream, updating outlooks dynamically as technical assumptions evolve.
• Translate complex scientific, engineering, and regulatory concepts into clear, financially relevant language and insights for non-R&D finance stakeholders, enabling shared understanding and informed decision-making across the organization.
• Partner with R&D business leaders and Human Resources to determine the appropriate headcount and staffing by project, manage the headcount approval process, and maintain a long-term view on resource requirements over the life of the project.
• Support the production of monthly and quarterly presentations for the Board of Directors and senior management including the CEO, CFO, EVPs and Vice Presidents.
• Assist with developing deliverables in support of Tandem’s annual strategic planning process.
• Ensure data accuracy and integrity within BI systems and train R&D business partners on how to effectively interpret and utilize financial dashboards and reports.
• Drive continuous improvement in forecasting, reporting deliverables and processes.
• Collaborate with Accounting to ensure GAAP compliance and adherence to Company policies and procedures.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, information systems or equivalent combination of education and applicable job experience.
• 4-6 years’ previous experience in a financial planning and analysis role, business partnering or other finance area.
• Experience supporting multi-year R&D programs with long development timelines and evolving technical and regulatory assumptions. Preference for experience…