At Inceptive, you will drive development forward that could help billions of people. To accomplish this, you will be part of a collaborative, antedisciplinary team building our biological software.
We’re looking for a dynamic finance generalist who’s eager to roll up their sleeves, thrives in a fast‑moving environment and wants to own a wide range of responsibilities within finance and ops. You’ll work directly with the Head of Finance and become a trusted partner across the organization.
In this role you’ll get to dive into finance, accounting, reporting, managing vendor relationships, supporting planning, and ensuring our Palo Alto office runs smoothly.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it- Support the daily backbone of our finance function, including managing payables, expenses, vendor workflows, and the systems that keep everything running smoothly
- Collaborate closely with accounting to review monthly close packages, flag issues, and maintain clean, audit-ready records across all of our entities
- Be a key contributor in the annual audit by preparing materials, coordinating with auditors, and helping manage timelines and deliverables
- Contribute to ongoing planning and reporting processes such as forecasts, budgeting, scenario modeling, and team-level insights
- Help shape how we work with vendors across the company, including sourcing, onboarding, managing contracts, payments, and relationships
- Work alongside lab ops to keep everything running smoothly at our Palo Alto site by handling purchasing, deliveries, and whatever else pops up to keep operations flowing
- Take on new projects across finance, operations, and beyond, in a role that offers room to grow and rewards initiative, problem-solving, and a strong bias toward action
- 4–7 years of experience in finance and accounting roles with real ownership
- Strong working knowledge of core finance and accounting concepts, with the ability to apply them across a range of business needs
- Comfortable navigating financial systems and open to learning new tools quickly
- Strong communicator with sharp organizational skills and a bias toward problem-solving
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift
- Motivated by impact, not afraid to ask questions, and always looking for ways to improve how things work
What we offer
- A competitive compensation package
- 30 days paid vacation per year
- Comprehensive health insurance for US based Beginners
- 401K with company match for US based Beginners and Direktversicherung for German Beginners
- Quarterly company-wide retreats
- Monthly wellness benefit
- Budget for multiple visits per year to our offices in Berlin, Palo Alto or Switzerland
- Learning & Development budget to attend conferences, take courses, or otherwise invest in your professional growth, as well as access to the Learning & Development platform EdX and Hone
- A buddy to help you get settled
*Varies by country
At Inceptive, we are creating tools to develop increasingly powerful biological software for the rational design of novel, broadly accessible medicines and biotechnologies previously out of reach. Our team brings together vast expertise in molecular biology, machine learning, and software engineering, and we are all working towards becoming antedisciplinary, meaning we deepen the knowledge we have in our area of expertise while also expanding our knowledge of completely new fields.
We approach our goals with a Beginner's mind, humbly and with fresh eyes, and aim to become the pioneers of a new discipline rooted in biology as much as in deep learning, whose impact will be realized together with out-of-the-box thinkers in business and entrepreneurship, defying established categorizations. We are building a company culture centered around growth, learning, and discovery. We believe in humility and open-mindedness in how we approach each other, as well as problems we don't yet have solutions for.
It is the policy of Inceptive to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Inceptive prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.
Inceptive is also committed to welcoming and providing accommodations to people with disabilities. Please let us know if you need any accommodations throughout your application process.
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What We Do
Biological Software is one or more synthetic molecules that execute complex functions, specified from a program, in a biological system. We are creating tools to develop increasingly powerful biological software for the rational design of novel, broadly accessible medicines and biotechnologies previously out of reach. Our antedisciplinary team of scientists, machine learning researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs is growing. If you are excited to learn, teach, discover, and create together in pursuit of learning life's languages to improve the lives of billions of people around the world, please visit our website.
