Senior Accountant

Reporting to the Sr. Accounting Manager, the Sr. Accountant will be an important contributor to the Company’s accounting and financial-reporting function, with significant responsibility for the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process. This role will help ensure that the Company’s financial records are accurate, complete, timely, well documented, and maintained in compliance with U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting requirements, and the Company’s SOX-compliant internal-control framework.

The incumbent will bring a strong technical accounting background, including required public accounting experience auditing public companies, as well as experience working within a publicly traded company. Biotechnology, pharmaceutical, life-sciences, or other healthcare-industry experience is highly desired. Experience supporting commercial-stage operations including revenue, inventory, cost of goods sold, and gross-to-net accounting is also highly desired.

• Own key aspects of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, ensuring the general ledger is accurate, complete, timely, and compliant with Company accounting policies and SOX requirements.
• Prepare and review recurring and non-routine journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, and variance analyses; investigate and resolve reconciling items and other exceptions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to obtain close inputs, validate completeness, and record accurate and timely accruals.
• Execute assigned close controls, ensuring required preparation, review, approval, and documentation are completed in accordance with the Company’s SOX-compliant internal-control framework.
• Maintain audit-ready support for journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, management-review controls, close checklists, and other financial-reporting activities.
• Maintain and improve close checklists, account-reconciliation templates, process narratives, desktop procedures, risk-and-control documentation, and supporting schedules.
• Identify, raise, and help remediate control deficiencies, documentation gaps, segregation-of-duties concerns, reconciliation issues, and other financial-reporting risks.
• Participate in SOX walkthroughs, control testing, remediation activities, and annual compliance requirements.
• Support the design, implementation, and evaluation of internal controls for new or changing accounting processes, systems, and business activities.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve close efficiency, standardize processes, strengthen controls, enhance data quality, and automate recurring activities.
• Prepare schedules and supporting documentation for quarterly reviews, annual audits, financial statements, footnotes, disclosure schedules, and SEC reporting, including Forms 10-Q and 10-K.
• Research and document accounting conclusions for complex or non-routine transactions.
• Support special projects, new accounting-standard implementation, financial-system implementations and enhancements, and other initiatives as the Company advances toward commercial operations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required. CPA designation preferred but not required.
• 4+ years of accounting experience, including a minimum of 2 years in public accounting auditing publicly traded companies is required. An additional 2+ years’ experience working directly within the accounting or finance function of a publicly traded company is also required. Experience auditing or working within the life sciences/biotech/pharma/medical device industry highly desirable.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge and demonstrated understanding of U.S. GAAP, financial statement preparation, account…