Director of Accounting Operations

Position Responsibilities

• Oversee and lead all accounting operations activities including consolidations involving multiple subsidiaries, monthly close processes, intercompany, payroll and equity.
• Help to build and scale accounting operations team, including creating processes to enable timely closing procedures that are scalable for growth
• Ensure strong internal control environment is maintained
• Assist in setting up policies related to travel and transparency reporting;
• Position will also require partnership with various members of cross functional teams
• Ability to capitalize on team member strengths and raise the team as a whole
• Assist in ad-hoc projects as needed

Candidate Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Accounting, or Finance
• CPA and/or MBA preferred
• Hands-on knowledge of accounting operations and processes
• Prior management of an accounting team
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills
• Familiarity with internal controls requirements in a public company
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at one time
• Thrives in a dynamic environment
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• At least 10 years of applicable experience in a pharmaceutical or biotechnology environment with prior experience in a public company
• Experience with Netsuite and/or SAP a plus