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Finance Business Partner, AI & Software

Lila Sciences· Corporate Development
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Cambridge, MA USAFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Finance Business Partner for AI/ML and Infrastructure teams at Lila Sciences, scaling financial backbone for AI/ML, infrastructure, and data workloads; partners with technology leaders to drive financial clarity and resource allocation.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary finance business partner for AI/ML and Infrastructure teams, providing end-to-end financial leadership across planning, performance management, investment governance, and risk controls.
  • Partner with Technology leaders to translate AI and infrastructure roadmaps into financial outcomes with clear P&L, cash, and capital implications.
  • Produce Board and investor materials and support fundraising diligence with crisp analyses and data room preparation.
  • Assist with cash runway modeling and scenario planning across compute, AI/ML, and infrastructure cost vectors.
  • Lead headcount and capacity planning across rapidly growing technical teams, tracking hiring pace and resource allocation across critical projects.
  • Translate complex technical cost data into clear narratives, recommendations, and decision frameworks for executives and cross-functional leaders.
  • Own financial tracking and analysis of compute and GPU infrastructure spend, including utilization reporting and efficiency benchmarks.
  • Build and maintain LLM usage and API cost models, partnering with ML teams to track inference costs, training runs, and optimization opportunities.
  • Develop frameworks for data storage and pipeline cost visibility, driving accountability for storage efficiency and lifecycle management.
  • Co-own financial models and rolling forecasts across headcount, OPEX, CAPEX, cloud and GPU spend, LLM API costs, and data infrastructure.
  • Expand KPI frameworks, reporting packages, dashboards, and variance analyses for executives and budget owners.
  • Help implement and operationalize FP&A tooling through integrations with core business systems.
  • Partner with Accounting, IT, and Procurement to improve data quality, chart of accounts structure, and source-of-truth metrics for cloud and infrastructure cost allocation.

Qualifications

  • 7 to 10+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or similar analytical roles.
  • Startup or scale-up experience strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated zero-to-one build experience across driver-based models, annual planning, rolling forecasts, KPI dashboards, and management reporting.
  • Hands-on experience with technology cost management, including cloud infrastructure, compute/GPU, or AI/ML cost structures.
  • Strong financial acumen and accounting fluency.
  • Ability to work with imperfect datasets and reconcile to source systems.
  • Clear, concise communicator who can simplify complexity, influence cross-functionally, and present to executives and the Board.
  • Thrives under tight timelines and changing priorities, balancing precision with pragmatism.
  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, engineering, math, or related field.

Skills

Required:Financial planning and analysis (FP&A)Cost management for cloud/GPU/AI infrastructureExecutive communicationScenario planning and modelingCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Guided by core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity; startup speed
  • Equal employment opportunity commitment
  • Candidate privacy policy adhered to
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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