Staff Accountant

A Bit About Us…
We’re a rapidly growing global SaaS company that enables life science organizations to achieve new levels of efficiency and productivity. Our customers include 30 of the top 50 global pharma and biotech companies.

Who We’re Looking For…
We’re searching for a Staff Accountant who’s keen to join a growing Finance team in a growing company. Reporting to our Senior Accountant, you'll play a key role in managing the books and ensuring the smooth running of the day-to-day accounting cycle. You’ll prepare and maintain financial statements, in addition to a range of other analyses and reports. You’ll collaborate with colleagues and partners in Tampa, Silicon Valley, Canada, Europe and India.

As an ideal candidate, you're a self-starter with strong accounting fundamentals and solid experience in full-cycle accounting and payroll. You’re autonomous, collaborative, methodical, curious, and quick to learn. You're eager to take on challenges large and small, and you thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment. If you’re all those things and you have experience with NetSuite, you could be perfect.

This is an outstanding opportunity to learn and advance, gain broad exposure to a complex and growing Finance operation, and have a significant impact on our success.

Location:
This is a hybrid position. You'll work from our office as necessary, and from home on the remaining days. You can be based in Silicon Valley.

What You’ll Do…
• Execute day-to-day full-cycle accounting, and collaborate with outsourced accounting partners to maintain the GL.
• Prepare monthly financial statements.
• Own payroll processing, ensuring timeliness and accuracy.
• Maintain the monthly revenue recognition worksheet.
• Reconcile bank and balance sheet accounts.
• Generate sales invoices and maintain receivable balances.
• Calculate monthly sales commissions with assistance from Sales Operations.
• Verify and/or complete payment of invoices associated with accounts payable and ensure payments are charged to the appropriate accounts.
• Code invoices, set up new accounts, reconcile accounts, and close the monthly books.
• Provide outside auditors with assistance; gather necessary account information and documents to perform annual audit.
• File tax forms with federal, state, and local government agencies.
• Manage the purchasing and invoicing system.
• Maintain knowledge of acceptable accounting practices and procedures.

What You Bring…
• A bachelor’s degree in accounting or a closely related discipline.
• Skills and experience in full-cycle accounting.
• Humility, drive, sharp attention to detail, and great communication skills.
• High degree of organization and process-orientation.
• Knowledge of general financial accounting and cost accounting.
• Understanding of, and the ability to adhere to GAAP.
• The ability to correctly prepare tax reports.
• A commitment to customer success and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience with NetSuite and Bill.com accounting software packages are strong assets.

More About Us…
Headquartered in South San Francisco, since 2005 we’ve grown into a global organization with offices around the world.

Our flagship Validation Lifecycle Management System (VLMS) is the first enterprise software solution to manage the corporate validation lifecycle process 100% electronically. As a first mover in the industry, our innovation drives significant cost and time savings in the life science space. VLMS is the system of record for all types of validation processes and is becoming a de facto standard for paperless validation across the life science industry.

ValGenesis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, ancestry, color, gender identity / expression, family / medical care leave, genetic information, medical condition, physical / mental disability, political affiliation, status as a protected veteran, status as a person with a disability, or other characteristics protected by laws or regulations