Business Operations Associate

Role Overview

Senior Financial Analyst to support invoice-level compliance audits and financial analysis. This role will initially focus on high-volume audit and reconciliation work to ensure financial accuracy and compliance, with the opportunity to expand into forecasting and profitability analysis over time.

This is an execution-focused role requiring strong Excel skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work through large datasets with consistency and accuracy.

Key Responsibilities

Invoice Audits & Compliance 

• Perform detailed audits of invoices to ensure compliance with internal policies and established guidelines

• Review high-volume transactional data to identify discrepancies, errors, or non-compliant charges

• Track, document, and escalate audit findings to appropriate stakeholders

• Maintain audit logs and support ongoing compliance reporting

Data Analysis & Reconciliation

• Work extensively in Excel to analyze, clean, and reconcile large datasets

• Identify patterns, anomalies, and trends within transactional data

• Ensure data integrity across multiple sources and reports

Financial Analysis & Forecasting 

• Support forecasting processes using established models and templates

• Update and maintain financial models (primarily Excel-based)

• Assist with variance analysis and basic profitability tracking

Process Improvement

• Identify opportunities to improve audit efficiency and data workflows

• Help standardize and document repeatable processes

• Contribute to automation or tooling improvements where applicable

Cross-Functional Support

• Partner with operations and finance teams to resolve discrepancies

• Communicate findings clearly and follow through on issue resolution

Qualifications

Required

• 4–6+ years of experience in financial analysis, audit, or similar roles

• Advanced Excel skills (this is critical) including:

  • Pivot tables

  • Lookups (XLOOKUP / INDEX-MATCH)

  • Data cleaning and structuring

• Experience working with large, unorganized datasets

• Strong attention to detail and ability to perform repetitive analysis with high accuracy

Preferred

• Experience with invoice auditing, compliance checks, or reconciliation work

• Exposure to forecasting or basic FP&A processes

• Experience in healthcare or another high-volume, operational environment

OUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. 

Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/

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- BBB announcement on job scams 
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