Senior Accountant, Biotechnology

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 experience in biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device or life sciences industry. Public accounting experience, as well as experience working within a publicly traded company is highly desired. Experience supporting commercial-stage operations including revenue, inventory, cost of goods sold, and gross-to-net accounting is also highly desired.

Duties and Responsibilities (Include but are not limited to):

• 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, 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 Company advances toward commercial operations.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position does not have direct supervisory responsibilities.

Education/Experience/Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required. CPA designation preferred but not required.
• Prior experience working within the life sciences/biotech/pharma/medical device industry is required.
• 4+ years of accounting experience required. A combination of public accounting experience and corporate accounting experience within a publicly traded company is highly desired.
• 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.
• Experience with SOX control documentation including process narratives, desktop procedures, risk-and-control matrices, control evidence, reconciliation support, and close checklists is preferred.
• Working knowledge of SEC reporting requirements and the quarterly and annual financial-reporting process, including support for Forms 10-Q and 10-K, is preferred.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required; experience with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP Business ByDesign, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar platforms is preferred.
• Commercial accounting experience is highly desired, including product revenue recognition, inventory accounting, cost of goods sold, and gross-to-net reserve processes.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet recurring close and reporting deadlines.
• Ability to partner effectively with cross-functional teams and external auditors.

Physical Demands:   
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, stand, and sit. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this individual include close vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.  The employee will view a computer monitor for long periods of time.

Working Environment and Travel:
Home office working environment. 
Periodic travel is required.  This will include to SAB locations and potentially other locations based on business needs.

ADA: 
The employer will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

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.

SAB BIO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. SAB BIO is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender identify, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other legally protected status. EOE/AA/Vets