Financial Systems Manager

Nearly 37 million Americans are currently affected by Chronic Kidney Disease. 37 million.

At Akebia we take that number very seriously and every day we come to work, with the purpose of bettering the lives of each person impacted by kidney disease and the renal community that serves them.
Our tenacious, passionate employees challenge the status quo and work to develop unique therapeutics that have the potential to set new standards of care for people living with kidney disease.

This is life-changing work, and we are all in, are you?

Step into a pivotal role reporting to the CFO as the Chief Accounting Officer not just crunching numbers but influencing critical decisions and being a change agent. You’ll work with senior leaders to steer the organization's future as we launch our second commercial product. You'll ensure pristine financial reporting, accurate audits, and compliance with regulatory requirements, including SOX, all while providing the strategic accounting backbone for the Company.

You will oversee all aspects of Akebia's financial reporting and accounting processes as well as insurance and risk management. The role will lead the team in implementing and identifying process improvements and optimizing our business processes across the Company to ensure scalability and efficiency.

If you've thrived in dynamic accounting roles for publicly traded companies, understand how to cultivate high-performing teams, and love the challenge of building robust accounting processes, this is the role for you. You'll be a key player whose insights will shape business strategies. Your expertise will be crucial for delivering transparent and reliable financial data, particularly for those stakeholders with limited accounting backgrounds.

You should also relish the pace and adaptability required in a smaller, agile setting.

This position requires a hands‑on, resourceful and collaborative finance professional with high visibility in a leadership role. This role requires an in-depth knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and public company financial reporting and internal controls requirements. This position will lead the coordination with external and internal auditors and partner with business stakeholders, an ability to collaborate with auditors and business partners like contract manufacturers and collaboration partners.

Working with leadership, this role requires monitoring, interpretation, and compliance with evolving accounting guidance relevant to our business and corporate goals.

• Provide strong leadership to the overall accounting operations
• Hands-on involvement in all company accounting-related matters:
  • Supervise AR, fixed assets and payroll as well as equity awards
  • monthly close processes and procedures, general accounting, internal management reporting and technical accounting matters
  • Oversee revenue, including gross-to-net and cost accounting
• Collaborate with government pricing function and build strong relationships with Commercial across all areas of contracting, pricing and gross-to-net.
• Prepare the consolidated financial statements; ensure proper external reporting and filing in compliance with SEC regulations
• Collaborate with IR and assist in the preparation of press releases
• Provide senior leadership/ and guidance on strategic impact of various technical accounting issues by researching, evaluating, and documenting accounting implications of complex transactions and collaborations; manage technical accounting assessments
• Serve as the liaison to external auditors and manage the annual financial audit
• Recommend and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency, internal controls and enable timely business decisions
• Optimize our ERP system
• Partner and collaborate with business stakeholders to recommend system improvements or integrations to enable improved financial reporting or analyses
• Ensure processes and people are in place to deliver timely and accurate monthly financial statements
• Support the establishment and monitoring of strong internal controls across the organization
• Coordinate with the insurance broker and carriers to properly mitigate risk
• Build financial infrastructure…