Sr. Staff Accountant - Accounting Operations

COMPANY:

At BioCryst, we share a deep commitment to improving the lives of people living with complement-mediated and other rare diseases. For over three decades we’ve been guided by our passion for not settling for “ordinary” in our quest to develop novel medicines. We leverage our expertise in structure-guided drug design to develop first-in-class or best-in-class oral small-molecule and protein therapeutics, led by the efforts of our team of expert scientists in our Discovery Center of Excellence in Birmingham, Alabama. Our global headquarters is in Durham, North Carolina, our European headquarters is in Dublin, Ireland and our employees span the globe across sites in multiple countries. We are proud of our culture of engagement and accountability that rewards people for innovative thinking and achievement of key objectives. For more information, please visit our website at www.biocryst.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

 

JOB SUMMARY:

BioCryst is currently looking for a motivated, proactive, and energetic individual to join the company's Accounting team. Reporting to the Sr. Manager or Manager, Accounting Operations, the Sr. Staff Accountant, Accounting Operations will play a critical role supporting the Accounting team as it scales and grows. Specifically, this role will focus on accounting for operational areas of the Company, such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, T&E, cash, and payroll.  This is an important role, partnering with the finance and operational teams, as we continue to grow domestically and internationally. As the Sr. Staff Accountant, you will be joining our Finance team during a pivotal time for BioCryst as we are actively building out the team and financial systems to support our domestic growth and international expansion. You will play a vital role in supporting short-term and long-term strategies to achieve continuous improvement and efficiencies in the optimization and implementation of processes related to accounting operations. Our ideal candidate will have several years of basic accounting experience, financial systems implementations and be comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced, global, multi-state and multi-entity environment. This position is full remote. #LI-REMOTE

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform and support monthly close and year end close process duties.
• Preparation, maintenance and booking of journal entries, general ledger accounts and transactions.
• Preparation of accounting estimate accrual journal entries.
• Perform monthly account reconciliations as assigned to analyze, review, research and resolve discrepancies.
• Provide detailed analyses and explanations of all transactions being recorded.
• Maintain compliance with local, state and federal reporting requirements.
• Identify, develop, implement and maintain systems, policies and procedures to promote appropriate internal controls, best practices and efficient and cost-effective processes.
• Assist staff, management and internal/external partners with issues resolution.
• Perform SOX controls and reconciliations related to accounting operations areas.
• Support internal and external auditors on audit deliverables.
• Provide first level support to finance team members of system functionality use.
• Effectively communicate with internal stakeholders and customers.
• Identify, recommend, and champion process improvements to the current processes and systems within the finance department by performing the tasks first-hand to gain a thorough understanding of the topic and content.
• Build positive relationships to ensure successful collaborations to be able to respond to internal questions, assist with the review of transactions as needed, and handle ad-hoc requests.
• Stay current on all financial system updates related to accounts receivable, accounts payable, cash receipts, or payroll by working closely with IT system owners.
• Coach, mentor and provide financial system expertise to team members to optimize operational excellence and build a deeper bench of talent.
• Other duties as assigned.

 

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance or similar with 5 years of accounting experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Active CPA required.
• Exper