Senior Accountant

With headquarters based in Chicago, IL and an international office in Seoul, South Korea, Sibel Health is an award-winning digital health startup with a mission to deliver Better Health Data for All®. We were founded out of a Northwestern University Biotechnology lab, with a specific focus on our most vulnerable patients - pregnant persons and babies - where we believe wireless monitoring has the potential to do the most good worldwide.

We are seeking mission-driven individuals with a strong sense of purpose who believe that technology can improve the lives of our most vulnerable patients.

We are hiring a Senior Accountant to own the day-to-day accounting operations behind a hardware company with a real supply chain, real inventory, and real regulatory obligations. You will drive the monthly close, own inventory and cost accounting in Net Suite, and produce the reporting and metrics that leadership, the board, our auditors, and our grant funders rely on.

This role suits someone who wants more scope than a Senior Accountant seat at a large company would offer. You will work directly with the Director of Finance and cross-functionally with Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and Program Management. The work is a mix of getting the numbers right and building the processes that keep them right as we scale.

• Own significant portions of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close, including journal entries, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, and other balance sheet reconciliations.
• Drive the close calendar and checklist - tracking owners, dependencies, and cycle time, with a goal of shortening close without sacrificing accuracy.
• Maintain a clean, well-documented general ledger and chart of accounts, including expense classification by business line to support segment-level reporting.
• Prepare and review intercompany transactions and eliminations, including activity with our international subsidiary.

• Own inventory accounting end to end: standard costs, purchase price variance, work-in-process, finished goods, scrap, and excess and obsolescence reserves.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain on cycle counts, physical inventory, and reconciliation of system quantities to what is actually on the floor and at contract manufacturers.
• Maintain and periodically refresh standard cost rolls; analyze and explain manufacturing variances.
• Account for consigned, demo, loaner, and field inventory, including units deployed at clinical sites and in study programs.
• Track and report on COGS and gross margin by product and business line, and flag the drivers behind period-over-period movement.

• Prepare monthly financial statements and the supporting schedules and variance analysis that go with them.
• Build and maintain recurring management reporting: revenue and margin by business line, inventory turns, days on hand, burn and runway inputs, and spend against budget.
• Develop KPI reporting that operating leaders will actually use, and automate it where possible rather than rebuilding it by hand each month.
• Support board and investor reporting packages, and respond to ad hoc analysis requests with clear, well-sourced answers.

• Serve as a power user and functional owner of Net Suite for accounting: saved searches, reports, item and costing setup, approval workflows, and period close.
• Identify and implement improvements that reduce manual work - automation of recurring entries, integrations with upstream systems, and cleaner data at the point of entry.
• Help evaluate and implement adjacent systems as the finance stack matures.

• Lead preparation for the annual financial statement audit, including PBC schedules, work papers, and auditor requests.
• Support grant and contract accounting, including cost tracking, allowability, and reporting obligations to institutional and philanthropic funders.
• Document and strengthen accounting policies and internal controls appropriate to a company at our stage - practical, not bureaucratic.
• Support sales tax, 1099, and other compliance filings in coordination with outside advisors.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including ownership of month-end close.
• Hands-on inventory and cost accounting experience at a company that makes a physical product.
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