HR Training Clerk

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?

• 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 the 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 and policies that will support the company’s growth and drive continuous improvements in financial systems and processes.
• Serve as a business partner and build relationships cross‑functionally to foster collaboration both inside and outside of accounting.
• Direct and lead accounting teams in the development, implementation and oversight of company‑wide accounting policies and controls consistent with SEC, US GAAP and Sarbanes‑Oxley compliance.
• Manage audit committee agenda and assist the CFO on presenting materials to the audit committee.
• Work closely with the FP&A team to support external reporting requirements.
• Participate and collaborate with company programs, projects and objectives which require extensive communication, change management and interactions with other finance leaders (e.g., FP&A, investor relations) and the CFO, as well as other functional leaders.
• Responsible for departmental operating budgets and preparation of board‑level and management reports.
• Support analysis of key business development initiatives and partnerships from an accounting perspective.
• Be a key team member in identifying and managing areas of enterprise risk.
• Engage with audit committee and executive management through compelling presentations.
• Other projects based on business needs.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting with current CPA accreditation required
• 10+ years’ experience in managing and developing teams
• 12+ years of work experience in public accounting and commercial biotech experience
• Biotech/pharmaceutical industry experience with gross‑to‑net and inventory management required
• Masterful grasp of the preparation of SEC financial statements
• Ability to train, mentor and lead a high‑caliber accounting team
• Experience leading and driving process improvements

• Experience with general ledger functions and the month‑end/year‑end close process in a setting requiring consolidations, multiple subsidiaries, including…