Staff Accountant

Overview

Follow Your Genki to North America's largest, state-of-the-art Life Science Manufacturing Facility & CDMO

The work we do at FDB has never been more important—and we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations, our capabilities, and our teams, and looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people’s lives. Join FDB and help manufacture the next vaccine, cure, or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy and drive - what we call Genki

 

Join us

We are growing our locations and are investing more than $2 billion into establishing a new large-scale manufacturing site for biopharmaceuticals in the United States to accelerate the growth of our Bio CDMO (Contract and Development Manufacturing Organization) business. This will be the largest end-to-end cell culture CDMO provider in North America.

The new site will offer end-to-end solutions to our customers looking to manufacture biopharmaceuticals in the US. In addition to drug substance manufacture, it will also provide automated fill-finish and assembly, packaging, and labeling services. The new state-of-the-art facility is located in Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States.

 

About This Role

The Staff Accountant supports the organization with accounting and finance related responsibilities by performing accounting analysis, preparing appropriate accounting and internal control documents.  The Staff Accountant plays a key role in understanding and interrupting customer contracts for accurately reporting and recognizing revenue.  Additionally, this position interacts with and supports many of the accounting and finance areas of responsibilities.

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What You’ll Do 

• Demonstrates an understanding of the business functions and transactions that drive general ledger account balances, as well as identifying, documenting and clearing reconciling items on a timely basis
• Assists with the monthly, quarterly and annual financial close process
• Prepares detailed journal entries, general ledger account reconciliations and analytics to support financial reporting and control environment
• Supports internal and external inquiries of financial information including: gathering support and documentation for various audit requirements
• Responsible for revenue and project controlling, reconciliation and analysis of customer contracts and programs with focus on program margin
• Collaborates with Program Manager and other functional groups to ensure the correct interpretation and financial application of customer contracts
• Ensures accurate recognition and reporting of revenue, accounts receivables, contract assets and liabilities based on on-going production and services
• Assists with the collection of input for customer invoicing
• Establishes customer programs and invoicing within the financial system
• Maintains pricelist master data from customer contracts
• Supports the business with all revenue, customer invoicing and account inquiries, analysis and reports
• Maintains Fixed Asset system with asset capitalization, retirements, depreciation schedules, verifications and matters associated with property taxes
• Partners with Production Accounting Team on inventory counts and reconciliations, ensuring proper internal controls are followed
• Supports process improvements in accounting processes
• Performs ad hoc analysis, projects and other duties, as assigned

Who You Are

You have a good understanding of interrupting customer contracts for accurately reporting and recognizing revenue. You are very comfortable with accounting principles.

 

Basic Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related field
• 5 years of financial accounting experience
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• ERP (SAP) or similar financial system knowledge
• High level of integrity and ethical conduct in financial activities
• Exceptional attention to detail, with the ability to resolve discrepancies
• Self-motivated with ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing tasks effectively
• Ability to deliver results with a strong sense of urgency
• Positive ‘can-do’ attitude willing to get the job done and done well
• Highly collaborative team player

 Preferred Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance
• 6 years of financial