CMC Financial Returnship

CMC Financial Returnship

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

We are leveraging new technology to create virtuous cycles of learning around datasets to build a next-generation biopharmaceutical company. It's complex biology, decoded.

Recursion is a digital biology company industrializing drug discovery. We are working to solve some of the hardest, most meaningful problems facing human health today. Come join us in our mission to decode biology to radically improve lives, while doing the most impactful work of your life.

Recursion's Returnship Program

Our Returnship program is sponsored by the Women at Recursion Employee Resource Group. The program is aimed at helping those who have taken a hiatus (2+ years) from the STEM industry have the opportunity to return to the workforce in a learning environment with support from teams and mentors. This allows our company to tap into an underutilized pool of talent in Utah, and leverage the experience and skills of previous work and life experiences, while also providing opportunity to learn and develop experience in new cutting-edge tools and technology. This sixteen-week program will enable you to have ownership of projects that can deeply impact the company's mission to radically decode biology and serve patients, while having the guidance, support and mentorship has you re-enter the workforce. Each Returner will be assigned a mentor who will meet with them weekly, as well as weekly seminars on workplace culture, communication and technology.

Our returner program lasts 4 months, running from February 2026 through the end of May 2026, with potential for transition into full-time employment depending on performance and availability. This position is mainly based in our Salt Lake City, UT headquarters, with some hybrid working flexibility available.

Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) Business Operations Returnship

Recursion's CMC business operations is essential for maintaining the financial health and accountability of our drug development programs, which involve complex, multi-million dollar vendor relationships. This role is critical for ensuring accurate budget management, transparent financial forecasting, and efficient invoice reconciliation for services. The Returner will lead a project to streamline financial reconciliation processes and build a scalable tools, directly supporting CMC leadership in strategic planning. This work directly supports clinical trials, which is critical to Recursion's mission to decode biology to improve patient lives.

Working alongside Recursion's CMC team within the Value Hub. You will work on projects to :

• Perform : Detailed invoice reconciliation against vendor SOWs (Statements of Work) and internal Purchase Orders (POs) to ensure accurate and timely payment for all manufacturing services.
• Maintain : Real-time budget tracking reports for active drug programs, consistently updating commitments, actual spending, and accruals to provide an accurate financial snapshot to CMC leads
• Capture : Current and future spending forecasts for key CMC activities by working team leads and integrating it into the master budget
• Document New standardized processes and process guides for efficient vendor invoice handling, budget allocation, and financial tracking, ensuring compliance with internal finance policies
• Improve : The accuracy and functionality of the CMC budget model by identifying system bottlenecks and implementing solutions to better link technical timelines to financial expenditures.
• Deliver : An easy-to-use budget forecasting and tracking tool for departmental use

The Experience You'll Need

The Recursion Community

While we offer cutting-edge tools, the secret sauce is our people. Our organization structure and culture isn't driven by politics or ego, it is designed first and foremost to help you do your best work. We live and work by values that we see as the strategic differentiators that give us a competitive advantage, allowing for better and faster work that isn't predicated on burnout and encourages us to make leaps where others take steps. This is a place where people in every role and every level make the bold bets that create large leaps forward on a regular basis!

The Perks You'll Enjoy as a Returner Recursionaut

The Values We Hope You Share :

Our values underpin the employee experience at Recursion. They are the character and personality of the company demonstrated through how we communicate, support one another, spend our time, make decisions, and celebrate collectively.

Recursion (NASDAQ : RXRX) is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to radically improve lives. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously generate one of the world's largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly and massive computational scale owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.

Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montral, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area.

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.