General Accounting Senior Manager

Job Title: General Accounting Senior Manager

Location: San Francisco, CA (hybrid)

Position Type: Full Time

Position Summary

Latigo Biotherapeutics is seeking a hands-on Senior Accountant with strong general accounting experience to support the Company’s growing accounting function.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage general accounting areas such as R&D and CMC accruals and other liabilities, among others


• Support the team in various other financial reporting activities while ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP and company accounting policies


• Prepare related journal entries, reconciliations, roll forwards, supporting schedules, and flux analyses


• Cross collaboration with other functions to obtain critical inputs and assumptions for monthly accrual determination


• Analyze financial results, account activity, and balance sheet reconciliations while identifying and resolving accounting issues, unusual transactions, and reporting variances


• Support internal and external audits by preparing audit schedules, responding to auditor requests, and ensuring timely completion of audit requirements


• Help drafting accounting policies and SOPs and keeping them current


• Use AI, automation and process simplification to identify and implement process improvements that strengthen financial reporting, accounting controls, operational efficiency, and compliance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field


• 3+ years of progressive accounting experience


• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, general ledger accounting, financial reporting, account reconciliations, and internal controls.


• CPA preferred


• Biotechnology, life sciences, CMC or R&D accrual experience preferred.


• Experience supporting system implementations, workflow automation, data validation, or AI-enabled tools is a plus


• Experience with NetSuite required, experience with Prendio, Coupa and Expensify is beneficial


• Strong Excel, analytical, organizational, and communication skills