Accounting Manager
Braveheart Bio · Lane County, OR · 1 mo ago
Accounting$125k–$145k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes "About Us" (company description) but not "About the role". There's a "The Role" paragraph describing role. Could map to "About the role". Also "Key Responsibilities" -> Responsibilities. "Required Experience & Skills" -> Requirements/Qualifications/Skills? We need to split maybe: Requirements (experience), Qualifications (education), Skills (technical). The posting includes "Preferred Experience & Skills". Also "Base Salary Range: $125,000 - $145,000" -> Pay. Also "This role is also eligible for a competitive total rewards package, which may include an annual bonus, equity, and a comprehensive benefits offering." -> Benefits. No schedule info. So we will include sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay. Not Schedule.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Use
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes "About Us" (company description) but not "About the role". There's a "The Role" paragraph describing role. Could map to "About the role". Also "Key Responsibilities" -> Responsibilities. "Required Experience & Skills" -> Requirements/Qualifications/Skills? We need to split maybe: Requirements (experience), Qualifications (education), Skills (technical). The posting includes "Preferred Experience & Skills". Also "Base Salary Range: $125,000 - $145,000" -> Pay. Also "This role is also eligible for a competitive total rewards package, which may include an annual bonus, equity, and a comprehensive benefits offering." -> Benefits. No schedule info. So we will include sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay. Not Schedule.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Use for each section heading. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: EEO, E-Verify, etc. Also remove "About Us" maybe? The instruction: Use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, etc. The "About Us" is company description; maybe we could include as part of About the role? But they said do not repeat job title as heading; they didn't forbid including company description. However they said include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it. The posting has "About Us" which is company overview. Could we map that to "About the role"? Not exactly. Perhaps we could create a section "About the company" but not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings list is given as examples; we should use those headings only. So we should not include a section for About Us unless we map to About the role. The role description is in "The Role". So we can put that under About the role.
Thus:
About the role
The Accounting Manager will own day-to-day accounting operations, support the month-end close process, and prepare clinical trial accruals for our fast-moving clinical-stage biotechnology company. Reporting to the Senior Director, Controller, this hands-on role will support internal controls, financial reporting, system implementations, and collaboration with finance, clinical operations, external vendors, and other cross-functional partners as Braveheart Bio continues to scale.
Then Responsibilities: list each bullet from Key Responsibilities.
We need to preserve all substantive information; we can convert each sentence into list items.
Key Responsibilities list:
- Support the monthly accounting close process, ensuring a timely, accurate close within external and internal reporting deadlines.
- Support FP&A budget to actual reporting.
- Review journal entries and reconciliations prepared by accounting team members.
- Supervise, mentor, and develop junior accounting staff.
- Own clinical trial accrual preparation including review of clinical contracts, CRO reports, patient costs, site costs, and invoices; liaise directly with internal stakeholders and clinical vendors to ensure accruals are complete, accurate, and timely.
- Implement policies and procedures for accounting activities and functions.
- Maintain internal controls in areas of responsibility.
- Improve and streamline processes where appropriate.
- Support annual audits, quarterly financial reviews, and internal controls testing.
- Support system implementations and other projects as needed.
- Promote a culture of collaboration, inclusion, execution excellence, effective communication and cross-functional problem-solving as a key member of a high-performing team.
We'll put each as - .
Then Requirements: maybe combine Required Experience & Skills and Preferred Experience & Skills? But we need separate sections: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. Let's parse.
Required Experience & Skills includes:
- 5+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, with publicly traded, pre-IPO, or clinical stage biotech/life sciences companies preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field.
- Deep technical accounting knowledge (US GAAP), including R&D accruals and clinical trial accounting.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of public company requirements, internal controls (SOX), and cross-functional alignment.
- Experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits.
- Excellent judgment, high integrity, and the ability to operate in a fast-moving environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a collaborative, team-oriented approach.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and remain comfortable with change and ambiguity.
- Flexible, proactive, and hands-on mindset with a roll-up-your-sleeves, can-do attitude.
Preferred Experience & Skills:
- CPA license preferred.
- Public accounting experience preferred.
- Experience with NetSuite preferred.
We could map:
Requirements: the mandatory items (5+ years experience, Bachelor's degree, deep technical accounting knowledge, advanced Excel proficiency, strong knowledge of public company requirements/internal controls/SOX, experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits). Possibly also judgment etc but those could be Skills.
Qualifications: education (Bachelor's degree) maybe also CPA license preferred? But CPA is preferred not required. Could put under Qualifications? Usually Qualifications includes education and certifications. We'll put Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field as Qualification. Also maybe CPA license preferred as Qualification? But it's preferred. We'll still include under Qualifications as optional? The instruction: only include section if posting has real specific content. It does have CPA license preferred, so we can include Qualifications section with that.
Skills: the rest: advanced Excel proficiency, strong knowledge of public company requirements, internal controls (SOX), cross-functional alignment, experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits, excellent judgment, high integrity, ability to operate in fast-moving environment, strong written and verbal communication skills, collaborative team-oriented approach, ability to thrive in fast-paced dynamic environment, comfortable with change and ambiguity, flexible proactive hands-on mindset, roll-up-your-sleeves can-do attitude.
We also have "Preferred Experience & Skills" includes CPA license, public accounting experience, NetSuite experience. Those could go under Skills as preferred.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include each bullet exactly as given, maybe rephrase slightly but keep meaning. We can keep them as list items.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now Benefits: "This role is also eligible for a competitive total rewards package, which may include an annual bonus, equity, and a comprehensive benefits offering." We'll put as list.
Pay: Base Salary Range: $125,000 - $145,000. We'll put as
.
Now ensure we don't include boilerplate: EEO, E-Verify, etc. Remove.
Now output only HTML fragment.
Let's craft.
We'll have:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, with publicly traded, pre-IPO, or clinical stage biotech/life sciences companies preferred.
- Deep technical accounting knowledge (US GAAP), including R&D accruals and clinical trial accounting.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, etc.).
- Strong knowledge of public company requirements, internal controls (SOX), and cross-functional alignment.
- Experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field.
- CPA license preferred.
Skills
- Excellent judgment, high integrity, and the ability to operate in a fast-moving environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a collaborative, team-oriented approach.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and remain comfortable with change and ambiguity.
- Flexible, proactive, and hands-on mindset with a roll-up-your-sleeves, can-do attitude.
- Public accounting experience preferred.
- Experience with NetSuite preferred.
Benefits
- Annual bonus.
- Equity.
- Comprehensive benefits offering.
Pay
Base Salary Range: $125,000 - $145,000
Check we didn't miss any substantive info: The role description includes reporting to Senior Director, Controller, supporting internal controls, financial reporting, system implementations, collaboration with finance, clinical operations, external vendors, cross-functional partners as Braveheart Bio continues to scale. We included that.
We omitted "Support FP&A budget to actual reporting." That's in responsibilities list; we need to include it. I missed it. Add.
Also "Support the monthly accounting close process, ensuring a timely, accurate close within external and internal reporting deadlines." included.
"Review journal entries and reconciliations prepared by accounting team members." included.
"Supervise, mentor, and develop junior accounting staff." included.
"Own clinical trial accrual preparation including review of clinical contracts, CRO reports, patient costs, site costs, and invoices; liaise directly with internal stakeholders and clinical vendors to ensure accruals are complete, accurate, and timely." included.
"Implement policies and procedures for accounting activities and functions." included.
"Maintain internal controls in areas of responsibility." included.
"Improve and streamline processes where appropriate." included.
"Support annual audits, quarterly financial reviews, and internal controls testing." included.
"Support system implementations and other projects as needed." included.
"Promote a culture of collaboration, inclusion, execution excellence, effective communication and cross-functional problem-solving as a key member of a high-performing team." included.
Add FP&A budget to actual reporting.
Now ensure we didn't duplicate.
Now check Requirements: we included 5+ years experience, deep technical accounting knowledge, advanced Excel proficiency, strong knowledge of public company requirements/internal controls/SOX, experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits. Did we include "publicly traded, pre-IPO, or clinical stage biotech/life sciences companies preferred." That's part of the experience bullet; we included that in the first bullet.
We omitted "Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field." that's in Qualifications.
We omitted "Strong knowledge of public company requirements, internal controls (SOX), and cross-functional alignment." included.
We omitted "Experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits." included.
We omitted "Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, etc.)" included.
We omitted "Deep technical accounting knowledge (US GAAP), including R&D accruals and clinical trial accounting." included.
Now Qualifications: Bachelor's degree, CPA license preferred. Also maybe "Public accounting experience preferred." but we put under Skills as preferred. Could also be under Qualifications but it's okay.
Skills: we included judgment, integrity, fast-moving environment; written/verbal communication; thrive in fast-paced dynamic environment; flexible proactive hands-on mindset; public accounting experience preferred; Experience with NetSuite preferred.
We missed "Strong knowledge of public company requirements, internal controls (SOX), and cross-functional alignment." that's already in Requirements; okay.
We missed "Experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits." also in Requirements.
Now Benefits: we listed annual bonus, equity, comprehensive benefits offering. The text: "competitive total rewards package, which may include an annual bonus, equity, and a comprehensive benefits offering." Good.
Now Pay: base salary range.
Now ensure no extra sections like
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: EEO, E-Verify, etc. Also remove "About Us" maybe? The instruction: Use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, etc. The "About Us" is company description; maybe we could include as part of About the role? But they said do not repeat job title as heading; they didn't forbid including company description. However they said include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it. The posting has "About Us" which is company overview. Could we map that to "About the role"? Not exactly. Perhaps we could create a section "About the company" but not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings list is given as examples; we should use those headings only. So we should not include a section for About Us unless we map to About the role. The role description is in "The Role". So we can put that under About the role. Thus:
About the role
The Accounting Manager will own day-to-day accounting operations, support the month-end close process, and prepare clinical trial accruals for our fast-moving clinical-stage biotechnology company. Reporting to the Senior Director, Controller, this hands-on role will support internal controls, financial reporting, system implementations, and collaboration with finance, clinical operations, external vendors, and other cross-functional partners as Braveheart Bio continues to scale.
Then Responsibilities: list each bullet from Key Responsibilities. We need to preserve all substantive information; we can convert each sentence into list items. Key Responsibilities list: - Support the monthly accounting close process, ensuring a timely, accurate close within external and internal reporting deadlines. - Support FP&A budget to actual reporting. - Review journal entries and reconciliations prepared by accounting team members. - Supervise, mentor, and develop junior accounting staff. - Own clinical trial accrual preparation including review of clinical contracts, CRO reports, patient costs, site costs, and invoices; liaise directly with internal stakeholders and clinical vendors to ensure accruals are complete, accurate, and timely. - Implement policies and procedures for accounting activities and functions. - Maintain internal controls in areas of responsibility. - Improve and streamline processes where appropriate. - Support annual audits, quarterly financial reviews, and internal controls testing. - Support system implementations and other projects as needed. - Promote a culture of collaboration, inclusion, execution excellence, effective communication and cross-functional problem-solving as a key member of a high-performing team. We'll put each as - .
Then Requirements: maybe combine Required Experience & Skills and Preferred Experience & Skills? But we need separate sections: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. Let's parse.
Required Experience & Skills includes:
- 5+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, with publicly traded, pre-IPO, or clinical stage biotech/life sciences companies preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field.
- Deep technical accounting knowledge (US GAAP), including R&D accruals and clinical trial accounting.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of public company requirements, internal controls (SOX), and cross-functional alignment.
- Experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits.
- Excellent judgment, high integrity, and the ability to operate in a fast-moving environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a collaborative, team-oriented approach.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and remain comfortable with change and ambiguity.
- Flexible, proactive, and hands-on mindset with a roll-up-your-sleeves, can-do attitude.
Preferred Experience & Skills:
- CPA license preferred.
- Public accounting experience preferred.
- Experience with NetSuite preferred.
We could map:
Requirements: the mandatory items (5+ years experience, Bachelor's degree, deep technical accounting knowledge, advanced Excel proficiency, strong knowledge of public company requirements/internal controls/SOX, experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits). Possibly also judgment etc but those could be Skills.
Qualifications: education (Bachelor's degree) maybe also CPA license preferred? But CPA is preferred not required. Could put under Qualifications? Usually Qualifications includes education and certifications. We'll put Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field as Qualification. Also maybe CPA license preferred as Qualification? But it's preferred. We'll still include under Qualifications as optional? The instruction: only include section if posting has real specific content. It does have CPA license preferred, so we can include Qualifications section with that.
Skills: the rest: advanced Excel proficiency, strong knowledge of public company requirements, internal controls (SOX), cross-functional alignment, experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits, excellent judgment, high integrity, ability to operate in fast-moving environment, strong written and verbal communication skills, collaborative team-oriented approach, ability to thrive in fast-paced dynamic environment, comfortable with change and ambiguity, flexible proactive hands-on mindset, roll-up-your-sleeves can-do attitude.
We also have "Preferred Experience & Skills" includes CPA license, public accounting experience, NetSuite experience. Those could go under Skills as preferred.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include each bullet exactly as given, maybe rephrase slightly but keep meaning. We can keep them as list items.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Now Benefits: "This role is also eligible for a competitive total rewards package, which may include an annual bonus, equity, and a comprehensive benefits offering." We'll put as list.
Pay: Base Salary Range: $125,000 - $145,000. We'll put as
. Now ensure we don't include boilerplate: EEO, E-Verify, etc. Remove. Now output only HTML fragment. Let's craft. We'll have:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, with publicly traded, pre-IPO, or clinical stage biotech/life sciences companies preferred.
- Deep technical accounting knowledge (US GAAP), including R&D accruals and clinical trial accounting.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, etc.).
- Strong knowledge of public company requirements, internal controls (SOX), and cross-functional alignment.
- Experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field.
- CPA license preferred.
Skills
- Excellent judgment, high integrity, and the ability to operate in a fast-moving environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a collaborative, team-oriented approach.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and remain comfortable with change and ambiguity.
- Flexible, proactive, and hands-on mindset with a roll-up-your-sleeves, can-do attitude.
- Public accounting experience preferred.
- Experience with NetSuite preferred.
Benefits
- Annual bonus.
- Equity.
- Comprehensive benefits offering.
Pay
Base Salary Range: $125,000 - $145,000
Check we didn't miss any substantive info: The role description includes reporting to Senior Director, Controller, supporting internal controls, financial reporting, system implementations, collaboration with finance, clinical operations, external vendors, cross-functional partners as Braveheart Bio continues to scale. We included that. We omitted "Support FP&A budget to actual reporting." That's in responsibilities list; we need to include it. I missed it. Add. Also "Support the monthly accounting close process, ensuring a timely, accurate close within external and internal reporting deadlines." included. "Review journal entries and reconciliations prepared by accounting team members." included. "Supervise, mentor, and develop junior accounting staff." included. "Own clinical trial accrual preparation including review of clinical contracts, CRO reports, patient costs, site costs, and invoices; liaise directly with internal stakeholders and clinical vendors to ensure accruals are complete, accurate, and timely." included. "Implement policies and procedures for accounting activities and functions." included. "Maintain internal controls in areas of responsibility." included. "Improve and streamline processes where appropriate." included. "Support annual audits, quarterly financial reviews, and internal controls testing." included. "Support system implementations and other projects as needed." included. "Promote a culture of collaboration, inclusion, execution excellence, effective communication and cross-functional problem-solving as a key member of a high-performing team." included. Add FP&A budget to actual reporting. Now ensure we didn't duplicate. Now check Requirements: we included 5+ years experience, deep technical accounting knowledge, advanced Excel proficiency, strong knowledge of public company requirements/internal controls/SOX, experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits. Did we include "publicly traded, pre-IPO, or clinical stage biotech/life sciences companies preferred." That's part of the experience bullet; we included that in the first bullet. We omitted "Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field." that's in Qualifications. We omitted "Strong knowledge of public company requirements, internal controls (SOX), and cross-functional alignment." included. We omitted "Experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits." included. We omitted "Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, etc.)" included. We omitted "Deep technical accounting knowledge (US GAAP), including R&D accruals and clinical trial accounting." included. Now Qualifications: Bachelor's degree, CPA license preferred. Also maybe "Public accounting experience preferred." but we put under Skills as preferred. Could also be under Qualifications but it's okay. Skills: we included judgment, integrity, fast-moving environment; written/verbal communication; thrive in fast-paced dynamic environment; flexible proactive hands-on mindset; public accounting experience preferred; Experience with NetSuite preferred. We missed "Strong knowledge of public company requirements, internal controls (SOX), and cross-functional alignment." that's already in Requirements; okay. We missed "Experience supporting Big 4 or national firm audits." also in Requirements. Now Benefits: we listed annual bonus, equity, comprehensive benefits offering. The text: "competitive total rewards package, which may include an annual bonus, equity, and a comprehensive benefits offering." Good. Now Pay: base salary range. Now ensure no extra sections like