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Senior Accountant

Velsera

Any City, USRemotePosted 48 days ago
Full TimeSenior LevelCorporate FunctionsBioinformatics
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Summary

The Senior Accountant position is responsible for driving operational efficiency in financial reporting and compliance using best practices and automation with ERP/enterprise accounting tools.

Job description

What will you do?

  • Own and support the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, ensuring timely and accurate reporting
  • Prepare and review journal entries, including accruals, amortization, equity-related entries, and intercompany activity
  • Prepare GAAP-compliant financial statements and supporting schedules
  • Maintain complete documentation and support for all accounting entries and balance sheet accounts
  • Prepare, review, and maintain balance sheet reconciliations, identifying and resolving discrepancies
  • Review and approve accounts payable expense coding to ensure accurate GL classification, cost center allocation, and timely month-end close
  • Manage and maintain the fixed asset ledger, including capitalization, depreciation, and disposals
  • Reconcile intercompany transactions and ensure proper eliminations
  • Support revenue and deferred revenue accounting, including collaboration with billing and revenue systems (as applicable)
  • Maintain and update accounting policies and procedures, ensuring alignment with GAAP and company growth
  • Assist with external audits, internal audits, and regulatory or compliance requests
  • Drive and participate in process improvement initiatives, including system optimization and automation
  • Prepare and circulate internal management reports
  • Respond to and resolve routine accounting inquiries from internal stakeholders
  • Exercise a high degree of integrity, judgment, and confidentiality in all financial reporting
  • Perform other duties as needed to support the Finance organization and scaling business needs

What do you bring to the table?

  • Minimum 5 years of progressive general accounting experience, preferably in a software, SaaS, or technology-enabled environment
  • Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and month-end close best practices
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-based ERP systems such as NetSuite (preferred), Sage Intacct, or similar
  • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and comfort working with large data sets
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain accounting concepts to non-finance partners
  • Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
  • Proven ability to meet deadlines in a fast-moving environment
  • Proactive, adaptable, and open to change and continuous learning

Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years of progressive general accounting experience
  • Experience preferably in a software, SaaS, or technology-enabled environment
  • Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP
  • Knowledge of month-end close best practices
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-based ERP systems such as NetSuite (preferred), Sage Intacct, or similar
  • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel
  • Comfort working with large data sets
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to explain accounting concepts to non-finance partners
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented
  • Able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
  • Proven ability to meet deadlines in a fast-moving environment
  • Proactive, adaptable, and open to change and continuous learning

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility
  • Inclusive and diverse team environment
  • Supportive work culture

Company overview

Velsera is a global precision medicine technology company formed in 2023 through the consolidation of three leading companies: Seven Bridges, Pierian, and UgenTec. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Velsera provides integrated AI-enhanced software and expert services that accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of precision medicine. The company's mission is to make breakthroughs happen faster so that lives are improved sooner. Velsera addresses critical challenges in healthcare by bridging the gap between clinical and discovery workflows, enabling seamless multi-omic data identification, ingestion, secure patient data management, and analysis. Their technology platform includes solutions for multimodal data harmonization, IVD development and validation, clinical NGS interpretation, and bioinformatics analysis. With over 80 active clinical NGS lab customers and supporting more than 18,000 researchers, Velsera serves biotech and pharmaceutical companies, clinical diagnostic laboratories, NGS assay manufacturers, and non-profit/government agencies worldwide.

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