Staff Accountant

Mission: This is an exciting opportunity to join Epitel as a key member of our finance team! The Staff Accountant will be working closely with the Controller and management team to help us ensure financial transactions are accurately recorded and financial statements are correctly presented. You will work with all departments to ensure that controls and policies are adequate and being followed.

Background for JD: Epitel is at a tremendously exciting inflection point. The company has significantly grown our team size in the last nine months. As we continue to grow, we look to further build our accounting/finance team. This is an excellent opportunity to get in early with a rapidly growing company and help build accounting systems, policies and controls that will help guide the company to future successes.

Outcomes:

• In your first 2 weeks - understand our current financial management requirements and systems, monthly/quarterly/annual close requirements, and control environment
• 3 months - Take responsibility of preparation and analysis of monthly financial statements and reports
• 6 months - Be able to operate independently and be a key resource to management and other Epitel team members
  • Own A/P, purchasing processes, A/R and sales processes
  • Be able to execute CoGs and margin reports and ensure cost accounting is recorded accurately
  • Prepare weekly reports and perform company & account analyses to help team make better business decisions
  • Assist with month & year-end close activities, budgeting/forecasting and other strategic projects
  • Develop, track and maintain strong Customer and Partner relationships and their associated records

1. Maintain general ledger and supporting schedules
2. Manage sales and purchasing entries and reporting
3. Prepare necessary financial statements and operating reports
4. Support other corporate closing functions as needed

Role-based competencies:

• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting or three to five years of accounting experience is required for this position. We prefer someone that has the potential to become a CPA.
• Extensive knowledge of internal control functions and external audits - Experience writing documentation, reports, business correspondence, and procedural manuals.
• Strong business acumen - An inherent, strong bias toward both action and process, with fully mastered organizational and project management skills, keen attention to detail, creative problem-solving, and excellent written and oral communication skills for a wide range of audiences.
• Experience with hardware-based business, ideally medical devices - medical devices come with their own set of considerations, from inventory management to FDA compliance.
• Familiarity w/ government grants - we have sizable NIH grants with their own budgets and set of requirements. Experience with the government grant process will be important for you to hit the ground running.
• Entrepreneurial - we're a small team. That requires everybody to take initiative and ownership for their role, manage multiple deadlines and priorities, and flex between independent and collaborative work as necessary.
• Strategic thinking - this is position requires a balance of someone who can execute and take a step back to see the bigger picture.
• Honest and trustworthy - we're nothing without trust. Clinicians, patients, and caregivers must be able to trust Epitel as an organization and you as an individual.
• Enthusiasm - we love what we do and so do our partners. We want you to as well.
• Familiarity with Excel, Quickbooks and Google Workspace

Values

• Act with integrity and assume good intent - We're as proud of how we're building as we are of what we're building. We do the right thing, follow through, and look out for each other. If someone's stuck, we reach out and help them grind. We're a team.
• Give a damn - We do what we do because we're committed to the cause - working for the next patient, the next caregiver. We listen to patients, their families, their doctors, and build to their needs. We take ownership of that responsibility, our work, and we commit to the mission.
• Debate ideas, not personalities - Everything we've done has been for a reason, but precedent does not equal best practice. We constantly challenge our own ideas while respecting our team's contributions and competence.
• Exceptional changemakers - We have to be exceptional - for patients, caregivers, and ourselves. We hold ourselves and each other to the highest standard. We step up to take ownership, leadership, and we follow through. We hire specialists who do the same.
• Lean into the turn - Healthcare is in constant change. In turn, we constantly accept feedback and change with it. We're flexible, agile, creative, and we lean into it.
• Perpetual growth - When you're creating the next frontier in diagnostics, nobody knows everything. We're always looking for how we and the company can learn and grow together.
• We're serious about our work, not too serious about ourselves - We're committed to the mission, but your life at work is not your entire life. We have families, friends, pets, hobbies. We want you to bring your whole self to the team and experience your whole self outside of Epitel. That's why we have regular get togethers, generous vacation, and flexible schedules. The best thing to do with your life is enjoy it.
• No cloak, no dagger - We're an open culture. Everybody has the full picture of what's happening within Epitel. No silos.

Benefits

• Equity - every employee shares in Epitel's success.
• Professional development allowance - we do better when you do better
• Medical/dental coverage - we pay 100% of premiums
• SimpleIRA contribution
• Unlimited vacation - we also take typical US holidays + Pioneer Day (harkening to our Utah roots!)
• Regular IRL meetings - remote work is convenient, but it's important to get to know one another in-person. We organize time for us to all to be physically in the same place (as long as we're all safe) every once in a while.