Executive Director Controller

About Madrigal

Madrigal is a biopharmaceutical company focused on delivering novel therapeutics for metabolic dysfunction‑associated steatohepatitis (MASH), a serious liver disease that can progress to cirrhosis, liver failure, need for liver transplantation and premature mortality. Every member of our Madrigal team is connected by our shared purpose: leading the fight against MASH. Madrigal’s medication, Rezdiffra (resmetirom), is a once‑daily, oral, liver‑directed THR‑β agonist designed to target key underlying causes of MASH.

Rezdiffra is the first and only medication approved by both the FDA and European Commission for the treatment of MASH with moderate to advanced fibrosis (F2 to F3). An ongoing Phase3 outcomes trial is evaluating Rezdiffra for the treatment of compensated MASH cirrhosis (F4c). Our success is driven by our people.

Executive Director, Corporate Controller is a key finance leader responsible for core accounting operations ensuring accuracy, compliance with U.S. GAAP, delivering timely financial and statutory reporting. This strategic, yet hands‑on role will report to the Chief Accounting Officer and work closely with peers, cross‑functional executives, corporate enabling functions, and key external partners.

• Manage the day‑to‑day operations of the accounting department to support the needs of a publicly traded company, including timely and accurate month‑end, quarter‑end, and year‑end close processes and compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., SEC filings, statutory financial statements).
• Collaborate with internal and external partners, including non‑finance operating teams, to provide financial data timely, share relevant insights, and strategic recommendations to senior management and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Oversee revenue accounting in compliance with ASC
  606, gross to net accounting, and government pricing calculations.
• Partner with supply chain teams to ensure accurate COGS reporting and inventory valuation.
• Direct the collaboration with R&D FP&A partners to ensure accurate and timely accruals for clinical studies and R&D activities.
• Maintain, update and create global accounting policies and position papers to support US GAAP; review underlying processes, systems and the broader control environment to support compliance with global accounting policies and other regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with the technical accounting team to review complex accounting transactions, proposed accounting treatments, and the approach to operationalize policies; partner with global accounting talent to ensure operational aspects of any policy and systems implementations are compliant with applicable standards and requirements.
• Lead the engagement with external auditors in support of annual audits, quarterly financial reviews, and internal controls testing, partnering with internal and external stakeholders as appropriate.
• Ensure that internal controls over financial reporting are designed and operate effectively.
• Serve as the business owner for relevant accounting systems supporting financial reporting, including ERP and adjacent systems; collaborate with IT leadership to evolve and develop a financial systems roadmap and infrastructure that will support significant growth and scale with increased complexity.
• Identify opportunities for automation of manual processes and lead system implementations to streamline accounting, reporting processes and controls.
• Collaborate with other finance teams such as Financial Planning and Analysis, International Finance, and Tax to ensure that actual results for responsible areas are consistent with expected or forecasted results; understand key differences and validate that differences related to different applications of accounting‑US GAAP vs management reporting are identified and reconciled.
• Partner with FP&A to assist in the preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts.
• Collaborate with Human Resources to deliver payroll processing and enable related control activities.
• Manage treasury activities, including cash management, banking relationships and reporting, and broader risk management programs…