Staff Accountant

Job Description –Staff Accountant

Harbinger Health, a Flagship-founded company, is pioneering early cancer detection. Harbinger aims to detect cancer, at the earliest stages, to save lives. Our platform leverages proprietary biological insights and artificial intelligence to enable high-resolution, molecular views on cancer from blood. We are a highly dynamic, entrepreneurial, and innovation-driven organization seeking collaborative, passionate, and dedicated people to join our team.

Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and develops first-in-category bioplatform companies to transform human health and sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, the firm has, through its Flagship Labs unit, applied its unique hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $200 billion in aggregate value. To date, Flagship has deployed over $2.5 billion in capital toward the founding and growth of its pioneering companies alongside more than $19 billion of follow-on investments from other institutions. The current Flagship ecosystem comprises 42 transformative companies, including Axcella Health (Nasdaq: AXLA), Codiak BioSciences (Nasdaq: CDAK) Denali Therapeutics (Nasdaq: DNLI), Evelo Biosciences (Nasdaq: EVLO), Foghorn Therapeutics (Nasdaq: FHTX), Indigo Ag, Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA), Omega Therapeutics (Nasdaq: OMGA), Sana Biotechnology (Nasdaq: SANA), and Seres Therapeutics (Nasdaq: MCRB).

Position Summary 

Harbinger Health is seeking a talented accounting professional to join our dynamic, high-growth organization.

The Staff Accountant reports to the Controller and will be responsible for the preparation of month-end close, account reconciliations, processing and maintaining accounts payable documentation and payments, review and approval of expense reports and review payroll in an accurate, efficient and timely manner. The Staff Accountant will also be assisting Finance Leadership with ad hoc projects and audit requests as needed.

To be successful as a Staff Accountant, you should have financial analysis skills, possess strong Excel skills, be detail-oriented, highly organized, and able to perform under pressure.

Key Responsibilities 

• Preparing journal entries, analysis and account reconciliations and assisting with monthly close processes.
• Ensuring accurate and timely completion of month/quarter/year end close responsibilities.
• Responsible for accurate and timely processing of supplier invoices.
• Understand and support the 3-way match of PO’s, receipts, and invoices including working with company stakeholders to facilitate the matching process.
• Prepare semi-monthly payment file for review and approval and initiate and facilitate the payment of supplier invoices in the ERP and payment system once the payment file is approved.
• Responsible for the review and maintenance of the Accounts Payable and Finance inboxes.
• Timely review and approval of employee expense reports and related support to ensure accurate completion based on company policies.
• Timely and accurate review and tie out of semi-monthly and bi-weekly payroll files provided by 3rd party payroll provider.
• Assist with audit schedules and audit requests as needed for annual audits.
• Responsible for the preparation of annual 1099, Use Tax, and other Accounts Payable compliance reporting requirements.
• Maintain effective relationships with the finance team and other departments to ensure effective and efficient cross functional collaboration.
• Assists finance leadership with ad-hoc initiatives.
• Continue to improve processes for all areas of responsibility.

Qualifications

• Degree in accounting or finance is required
• 2+ years accounting experience
• Proven ability to calculate, post and manage accounting figures and financial records
• Thorough understanding of financial application security, ensuring that all financial data are secure and comply with confidentiality policies
• Proficiency in MS Office, particularly with Excel
• A high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong research skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Flexible, personable team-player, comfortable in a fast-paced, small, high-growth company environment
• Ability to distill complexity and to communicate decisively with sound judgment

Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

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