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# Finance Manager at Inato

- **Company:** Inato
- **Location:** Paris Office OR From, France
- **Compensation:** €55k–€70k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inato/e5202128-8679-40ad-8649-239ec33d49a7/application

**Skills:** Financial modeling, FP&A, Financial analysis, Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial reporting, Accounting concepts, AI tools

> The Finance Manager drives financial reporting, planning, and business partnering across all functions. This role involves building financial models, managing budgets, and supporting strategic decision-making within a fast-growing tech for good company.

## Job description

## WHO WE ARE

Inato is a Tech for Good company striving to bring clinical research to each and every patient, regardless of who they are or where they live. To do this, we are building the world's first clinical trial platform to create greater visibility, access, and engagement across a more diverse population of doctors and their patients.

Drug development is a challenging, intellectually complex, and rewarding endeavor: we enable global pharmaceutical companies to confidently partner with community-based researchers to increase patient access to the latest medical innovations. Our AI-powered platform currently offers clinical trials from leading companies to over 5,500 sites across the globe and we are well poised for growth in 2026.

We are a growing team of passionate pharmaceutical experts, software and AI engineers, professional services members, and many more—all bringing their unique perspectives to solve the challenges facing clinical research.

Inato is the recent recipient of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024, Fierce Healthcare’s Fierce 15, and Built In's Best Places to Work 2025.

## THE ROLE

As our Finance Manager - FP&A & Business Partnering, you will be at the heart of how Inato understands and steers its business. You will work closely with our VP Finance & People, a hands-on FP&A leader who will invest in your development and give you real ownership as you grow into the role.

This is a company-wide position: you will contribute to financial reporting, planning, and business partnering across all functions. The scope is broad and the learning curve is steep, which is exactly the point. If you are intellectually curious and want to grow fast inside a company where finance has a real seat at the table, this role is for you.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

Financial Reporting

- Contribute to internal financial reporting, including monthly management packs and performance updates for the leadership team
- Support the preparation of board-level financial materials: clear, accurate, and decision-ready
- Help build and maintain reporting frameworks that give the business a reliable view of its financial health

Planning & Forecasting

- Contribute to the annual budgeting process and rolling forecasts
- Build and maintain financial models to support strategic and operational decision-making
- Track performance against plan and flag risks and opportunities
- Develop an understanding of our AI compute cost structure, a core driver of our unit economics, and reflect it accurately in models
- Contribute to financial modeling of our revenue streams and help track business model evolution
- Work with commercial and product teams to maintain revenue forecasts grounded in operational reality

## QUALIFICATIONS

- 4-6 years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, or management consulting
- Solid financial modeling skills: you are comfortable building and working with structured models
- Strong analytical skills and strong communication: you turn data into clear narratives, and you can explain difficult concepts in plain terms to any audience, in writing or in conversation
- A high bar for accuracy: you know the devil is in the details, and you have a talent for catching errors before they matter
- Hungry to learn: you ask good questions, seek feedback, and want to grow quickly
- An entrepreneurial mindset: you like challenges, you are comfortable getting hands-on, and you thrive in environments where things are still being figured out
- Some experience or strong appetite for business partnering: you enjoy working with people outside of finance, translating numbers into decisions, and contributing to cross-functional conversations
- Background in startup, scale-up, or consulting, ideally a mix
- Based in France

## NICE TO HAVE

- Tech sector experience
- Working knowledge of accounting concepts, enough to collaborate effectively with an accounting team
- Familiarity with AI tools and comfort integrating them into day-to-day analytical work

WHY INATO?

Our mission is to make clinical trials more accessible and inclusive. We value diverse backgrounds and experiences, bringing together industry veterans with fresh perspectives to advance the clinical trials industry. Join us at Inato and be part of a team that's making a real difference in healthcare.

## BENEFITS

- Remote-first philosophy & flexible hours
- Top-of-the-line equipment
- Modern free health insurance (Benefiz)
- Compensatory time off (RTT)
- Lunch vouchers (Swile)
- Gym membership (Gymlib)
- Free books & learning material

## About Inato

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Inato provides an AI-powered platform that connects clinical trial sponsors with global research sites to accelerate patient enrollment and make trials more accessible and inclusive.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, total funding $49.3M)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Liz Beatty (CEO), Jean-David Zeitoun (Chief Medical Officer), Philippe Ravaud (Chief Scientific Officer), Kourosh Davarpanah (Chief Strategy Officer)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Clinical trial technology / Healthcare IT
- Target customers: B2B – pharmaceutical sponsors, contract research organizations (CROs), and research sites (hospitals, clinics)
- Mission: "Bring clinical trials to all patients, regardless of where they live" – making medical research more accessible, inclusive, and efficient.

## Products & Services
- **Inato Platform (SaaS)**: An end-to-end clinical trial management platform spanning early planning, site selection, AI-powered pre-screening, and patient enrollment. Uses AI to match sponsors with qualified sites and automate chart review to reduce site burden.
- **Site Network**: A global network of 6,000+ research sites across 50+ countries, enabling sponsors to run diverse, inclusive trials.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $3.0M (FY2025 estimate from LinkedIn)
- **Total Funding**: $49.3M across multiple rounds
  - Seed (2017): $1.3M led by Serena
  - Seed (2018): $1.5M
  - Series A (2020): $14M led by Cathay Innovation, Obvious Ventures
  - Series A (2023): $20M led by Cathay Innovation
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Cathay Innovation, Obvious Ventures, Serena; partners with 25+ sponsors
- **Growth Signals**: Operates in 50+ countries; 6,000+ active research sites; headcount of ~55 employees (though down 9.5% YoY). Case study: Achieved 181% of patient enrollment target in an asthma trial.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Global reach aligned with local access**: Network of sites in 50+ countries, enabling diverse patient populations.
- **AI-native platform**: Automates site matching and patient pre-screening, reducing manual burden and accelerating trial timelines.
- **Focus on inclusion**: Platform designed to design more inclusive trials and reach underrepresented communities.
- **Sponsor collaboration with sites**: Brings sponsors and sites together in one platform – a two-sided marketplace effect.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand global site network and deepen sponsor partnerships.
- Continue developing AI capabilities for pre-screening and site selection.
- Drive trial diversity and equity by enabling research in community settings.
- Reduce site burden through automation and streamlined workflows.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes transparency, trust, empathy, and a bias for action. Operating principles include "Build trust," "Make others successful," "Raise the bar," "Fight complexity."
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote-first with onsite options; offices in France, USA, UK, Germany, Brazil.
- **Perks**: 6+ weeks of vacation, comprehensive health insurance, competitive salary and equity.
- **Engineering & Product Culture**: Focus on quality, craft, and iteration. Roles like Senior Analytics Engineer, Product and Developer positions available. Interview process includes behavioral (STAR) and technical assessments.
- **Growth**: Opportunity to work on a mission-driven problem with global impact in clinical research.

## Sources
1. [Inato.com](https://www.inato.com/)
2. [Inato Careers](https://www.inato.com/careers)
3. [Inato About Us](https://www.inato.com/about-us)
4. [Inato LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/inato)
5. [Inato Job Board (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inato)

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