Senior Accountant

Overview

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

Responsibilities

• Own key aspects of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, ensuring the general ledger is accurate, complete, timely, and compliant with 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 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, escalate, 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 organization advances toward commercial operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required.
• 4+ years of accounting experience, including a minimum of 2 years in public accounting auditing publicly traded companies required.
• An additional 2+ years’ experience working directly within the accounting or finance function of a publicly traded company is required.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge and demonstrated understanding of U.S. GAAP, financial statement preparation, account reconciliations, accrual accounting, and month-end close processes.
• Demonstrated experience independently managing significant portions of a fast-paced monthly close, including journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, flux analysis, close reporting, and audit-ready documentation.
• Experience operating in, supporting, or testing a SOX-compliant internal-control environment is required.
• Demonstrated ability to execute accounting processes in accordance with established internal controls; maintain complete support; identify control gaps, documentation issues, and financial-reporting risks; and assist with remediation and control-improvement activities.
• Working knowledge of SEC reporting requirements and the quarterly and annual financial-reporting process, including support for Forms 10-Q and 10-K, preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required; experience with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP Business ByDesign, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar platforms preferred.
• Ability to partner effectively with cross-functional teams and external auditors.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA designation preferred but not required.
• Experience auditing or working within the life sciences/biotech/pharma/medical device industry.
• Experience with SOX control documentation including process narratives, desktop procedures, risk-and-control matrices, control evidence, reconciliation support, and close checklists.
• Commercial accounting experience, including product revenue recognition, inventory accounting, cost of goods sold, and gross-to-net reserve processes.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to walk, stand, and sit.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Will view a computer monitor for long periods of time.

Working Environment and Travel

• Home office working environment.
• Periodic travel required, including to organization locations and potentially other locations based on business needs.

ADA

Reasonable accommodations will be provided in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Additional Information

This job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Primary and additional duties and responsibilities are subject to modification.

The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Discrimination and harassment are prohibited. Equal employment opportunity is provided for all employees and applicants regardless of legally protected status.