Senior Accountant (Hybrid, 3 days in Palo Alto Office)

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext™, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.

Job Description

The Senior Accountant will contribute to a world-class finance team in a rapid growth and emerging environment. To be effective, you will need operational accounting experience and an eagerness to support all aspects of accounting.   Strong communication, organizational, analytical, and customer service skills are essential.  This is a highly visible position requiring that confidentiality be maintained. 

This role is immensely important, and you will serve as an integral member of our finance team.  You will need to be an enthusiastic and hands-on individual who enjoys a fast-paced, high-volume environment. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

 Your activities will include:

• Perform day-to-day processing of accounts receivable transactions such as billings and credit memos.
• Enter contracts in the Order Management system and work with the Alliance Management team for the inventory pick release process.
• Process daily cash receipts including credit card, ACH, and wire payments as needed.
• Generate and send out invoices.
• Follow up on, collect, and allocate payments.
• Carry out billing, collections, and reporting activities according to specific deadlines.
• Assist in month-end, quarter-end, and year-end reconciliations and close processes.  
• Assist with interim and annual audits and period-end management reporting. 
• Identify opportunities for process improvements or automation.
• Maintain files and documentation in accordance with company policy and accepted accounting practices.

Intrinsic motivation, curiosity, persistence, and collaboration will be critical to thrive in this role. You will partner and problem-solve with colleagues across several business teams. Interest and passion for the company’s goal to improve patient care will serve you well in your work. 

You’ll have the opportunity to grow along with Guardant Health, as we grow in our current markets, develop new products, and expand into new product lines and new markets.

You bring excellent interpersonal skills to the role: communication, empathy, and relationship building. In addition, you have strong written capabilities, analytic skills, and good attention to detail.  Having fun at work is also important to us, and we like our colleagues to have passion, and humor and to enjoy life.

Qualifications

  In addition, you bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related discipline required.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, public accounting, and healthcare industry experience a plus.
• Prefer a minimum of 4 years utilizing an ERP such as Oracle Fusion.
• Must have proficient to advanced Excel experience such as XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, and pivot tables.
• Prefer experience with Power Query. 
• You are a self-starter, work well as a team player, but can work independently when appropriate.
• Knowledge of GAAP and a good understanding of accounting theory.
• You have a strong knowledge and experience addressing a broad range of accounting matters, ensuring it is processed in compliance with established internal controls.  You possess the analytical skills needed to correctly grasp and communicate data and analyze and reconcile accounts; the ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with the appropriate discretion; and handle multiple deadlines. 
• You possess the ability to analyze problems and actively strategize to resolve them, pay attention to detail, and have excellent organization and communication skills.
• You are results-oriented. You can juggle multiple tasks, and work cross-functionally and at all levels of the organization, whether internally or externally.
• You are flexible and comfortable in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and can prioritize focusing on the important, not just the urgent.

Additional Information

Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-fr