A life sciences company spends years and significant capital before it earns a dollar under compliance obligations that reach every transaction. Investors want clean burn reporting, auditors want a defensible trail, and the back office is often still spreadsheets. Zanovoy implements core partner solutions as an edition around compliance-grade financials, R&D, and grant spend, and multi-entity reporting, then supports it as you move toward clinical scale and commercialization.
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Where Life Sciences Finance Teams Get Stuck
Most research-stage and clinical-stage companies invested in the science and left finance behind. The result is a team tracking burn, grants, and R&D spending in spreadsheets under investors and auditors who expect far better.
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Research budgets, grant restrictions, and program-level spend each carry rules, and when they live outside a controlled system, reporting against them is manual and exposed. A grant audit or a board burn review becomes a scramble to reconstruct what was spent and why.
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A regulated, board-governed, often audit-bound company needs approval workflows. segregation of duties, and a defensible audit trail built into how transactions flow. A general-purpose accounting tool does not provide that, which surfaces the moment a SOX-readiness or diligence process begins.
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Research entities, international subsidiaries, and holding structures mean firm-wide financials are stitched together by hand. Leadership and the board see the consolidated picture late and never quite trust the spreadsheet it came from.
The Right Platform for a Regulated, Pre-Revenue Operation
We do not hand life sciences companies a flat list of applications, and we do not force a basic accounting tool to carry compliance obligations it was never built for. We map your stage, entity structure, funding, and compliance load, then build the stack around the system that fits.
NetSuite Life Sciences unifies compliance-ready financials, R&D and grant tracking, and multi-entity consolidation in a single system. Built-in approval workflows, segregation of duties, and audit trails support SOX readiness from day one. It provides a reliable, audit-ready foundation that tracks program spending from the initial grant through to consolidated financial reporting.
Life sciences carry significant indirect and research-related spend across suppliers, CROs, lab services, and materials. Coupa centralizes purchasing, enforces policy and contract compliance, and routes approvals so spend is controlled at the point of commitment and visible against budget rather than reconciled after the fact.
For planning, Abacum lets a lean finance team model burn, runway, and program scenarios quickly and run real-time variance against live spend so a biotech finance function can answer the board's runway questions without a full FP&A team. It fits the lean, fast-moving finance motion most research and clinical-stage companies run.
For early-stage, pre-clinical research firms, Rillet provides a fast and automation-focused finance platform. As clinical trials, FDA regulations, and 21 CFR Part 11 compliance requirements emerge, NetSuite Life Sciences becomes the more suitable solution. Zanovoy helps companies transition at the right stage to ensure compliance and scalability.
Why Life Sciences Companies Work With Us
We lead with what a life sciences finance team actually has to defend: burn against runway, grant spend against restrictions, and a financial audit trail that holds up under SOX and diligence. Our teams come from accounting and systems backgrounds and approach your organization from the finance seat, not a generalist IT one.
SOX-ready controls, audit-trail integrity, grant and R&D spend tracking, and consolidation across entities are the core of the work here, not a generic ERP rollout with the life sciences specifics left for you to sort out.
We connect and migrate the financial and operational data around your research and clinical operations into NetSuite through direct integrations, so information moves on its own and the back office is not a manual gathering, while your scientific and regulatory systems stay where they belong.
We set up clean records and a traceable financial trail from the first month, so a grant audit, a SOX-readiness process, or a diligence round is a query, not a fire drill.
The people who advise on the platform are the people who implement it and the people who support it afterward.
A 30-minute conversation about your operation, not a sales demo.
Start with a ConversationProfessionals on the Financial Transformation Team
Companies supported through IPO
Implementations delivered across 5 continents
Customizations built for enterprise clients
Integrations built across the platform ecosystem
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How the Engagement Runs
We begin with where you are on the path from research to commercialization, because that determines everything else: your compliance load, your entity structure, how grants and programs are funded, and what an auditor will expect when the time comes. That conversation tells us whether NetSuite Life Sciences edition is right now or whether your stage genuinely still fits a lighter platform. You finish with a documented requirements set and the reasoning behind the call.
Here the compliance controls, grant and program tracking, and multi-entity structure get built to your organization, with the approval workflows and audit trail a regulated company needs wired in from the start rather than added under audit pressure later. We bring your historical financial data across cleanly, so you open NetSuite with your entities, programs, and balances intact.
A finance system in a life sciences company has to coexist with a stack of scientific and regulatory tools it should never replace. We connect and migrate the financial and operational data around those systems into NetSuite through direct integrations, so spend and program data flow automatically while your LIMS, eTMF, and quality systems stay in their own lane.
Your compliance load grows as you move toward clinical scale and commercialization, and the configuration has to grow with it. We tune controls, consolidation, and reporting as you add entities and programs, run alongside your close, and manage integrations, giving a lean finance team the NetSuite bench it needs without a full-time internal admin.
Bring your current setup. We'll map an honest path from where you are.
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