Finance Business Partner, AI & Software

Your Impact at LILA Lila Sciences is scaling its Scientific Superintelligence platform, and we’re building the finance backbone to match. As the Finance Business Partner for our AI/ML and Infrastructure teams, you’ll partner with Technology leaders to turn data into decisions and bring structure to ambiguity. You’re a builder-operator who partners with technical leaders to drive financial clarity across complex and fast-moving cost surfaces: compute and GPU infrastructure, LLM usage and API spend, data storage, and pipelines. You stand up dynamic planning processes, design the KPI and reporting engine leaders rely on, and shape resource allocation across cloud infrastructure and AI/ML workloads. What You'll Be Building 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 efficie