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Accounting Manager

San Rafael, CA 94901

Posted: 01/06/2025 Employment Type: Contract Industry: Finance Job Number: 11986 Pay Rate: $70.00 - $76.00 Remote Friendly: Onsite

Job Description

Our client focuses on developing first-in-class and best-in-class therapeutics that provide meaningful advances to patients who live with serious and life-threatening rare genetic diseases.


Summary:
  • This Accounting Manager role is part of the U.S. Controllership team, reporting to the Associate Director, North America Accounting.
  • This position is a backfill for our day-to-day accounting work while the existing team members dedicate their time to an enterprise-wide system implementation project.
  • This temporary position will be at least one year from the hiring date, an extension may be possible on a future need basis.
  • We are a global company with teams across the NAM, EMEA, APAC, and other regions.
  • This role will be responsible for the U.S. accounting and will collaborate across different teams and functions of our business.
  • Your strong interpersonal skills will help facilitate and bridge accounting with people outside the Accounting Organization.
  • We are a great team who values flexibility, excellence, integrity, and work-life balance.
  • We offer a hybrid model to get both personal connections as well as remote flexibility. Tuesday and Thursday in the San Rafael campus while Monday, Wednesday, and Friday are remote.

Responsibilities:
  • Prepare and review fixed assets / capital projects accounting (e.g. review/approve requisitions related to fixed assets, review mass asset additions, CIP asset confirmations, asset placed in service, retirements, etc.).
  • You are fully responsible and own the fixed asset subledger in Oracle, end to end.
  • Prior fixed asset accounting experience is a must-have.
  • Oracle EBS Asset responsibility experience is a plus bonus.
  • Prepare / review vendor contracts to determine the proper U.S. GAAP accounting, ability to interpret complex transactions and explain in simple terms. Prepare contract templates.
  • Prepare and review journal entries such as prepaid addition and prepaid amortization, expense accruals, and other journals as applicable.
  • Prepare/review balance sheet account reconciliations.
  • Prepare/review flux analysis and commentary to explain whats going on in the business.
  • Ensure income statement and balance sheet are accurate, timely, and compliant with U.S. GAAP and company policies.
  • Complete 10-Q and 10-K requests for submission to the External Reporting team.
  • Complete tasks to support both internal and external audits, SOX control compliance.
  • Build strong partnership and collaboration with the business partners and within the finance organization to understand business activities and be the advisor in terms of accounting.
  • Seek process improvement and efficiencies to drive synergy across the teams and regions.

Job Requirements

Experience and Qualification Required:
  • Minimum 6+ years accounting experience in General Ledger Accounting, with hands-on GL financial close responsibilities.
  • Must have prior fixed assets and capital projects accounting experience.
  • Experience with high volume and complex vendor contract transactions.

Bonus Points:
  • Publicly traded company financial accounting and controls experience.
  • Life science / biotech pharma industry experience.
  • Experience in Record to Report and Source to Pay processes.
  • Excellent in Excel formulas and data analytics Oracle EBS and/or SAP ERP systems experience.
  • A strong candidate will be our go to person to lead, solve problems, and get stuff done.
  • Attention to details, organization, critical thinking, and great analytical skills are essential to this role.

Education:
  • Bachelors degree in accounting or finance required or equivalent.

Meet Your Recruiter

Melissa Politron
Recruiter

As a Compass Recruiter, Melissa "Mel" is excited about rediscovering her passion in helping candidates find opportunities that will excel their professional lives and improve their personal lives. She brings a deeply-rooted excitement to the team by understanding the people she works with and finding ways she can support them. Mel's connections with others inspires her to make a difference in the overall well being of her colleagues, candidates and clients alike. 

Outside of Compass, Mel enjoys cooking, dancing and being a mom to her three wonderful boys. She has an obsession with home organization and thoroughly enjoys solving other families' organizational needs. Mel is also very passionate about One Heart Source, a humanitarian organization that combats conditions such as poverty, diseases and illiteracy through education. She participated as a summer volunteer teacher in Tanzania and credits the organization for shaping her into the person she is today. 

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