Director of Accounting and Finance

4 weeks ago


Madison, Wisconsin, United States FUJIFILM Corporation Full time
Job Summary

FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc. is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Director of Accounting and Finance to lead our financial operations and drive business growth. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for maintaining fiscal records, establishing and maintaining budgetary controls and procedures, and preparing financial reports in compliance with FUJIFILM's reporting requirements and operating procedures.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide leadership and oversight of accounting operations, financial systems, and monthly close process
  • Manage timely and accurate preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results and reporting in strict accordance with GAAP
  • Drive robust financial analytics and business insights on potential new therapeutic, CDMO, new product development programs and associated stage gates
  • Manage the annual budgeting and forecasting processes, and work with department heads to align goals
  • Oversee and provide hands-on support to the day-to-day accounting operations, including profit and loss activity, customers-accounts receivable, vendors-accounts payable, fixed assets, and maintaining accounting systems through SAP
  • Coordinate with external tax department to prepare state and federal tax returns as required
  • Review draft contracts/agreements and provide feedback on terms that may impact taxes and other financial areas such as revenue recognition
  • Manage the annual audit, serving as the point-person with independent auditors
  • Serve as the company's Compliance Officer and be an active team member in FCDI's Business Continuity Plan process
  • Drive continuous improvement of financial tools and financial accounting processes that can scale with the company's growth
  • Bring a proactive energy and deep sense of ownership, teamwork, and initiative to a fast-paced environment with sometimes ambiguous situations
  • Select, develop, motivate, train, and retain a capable staff of finance and accounting professionals
  • Collaborate with leadership to continually assess organizational performance against annual budget, company strategic goals, and profitability objectives
  • Counsel the company on fiscal control and profitability, presenting and interpreting financial results for managers and leaders to build financial aptitude company-wide
  • Develop and maintain financial tools, models, and reports to consolidate data from a variety of sources, ensuring accuracy and transparency with department leaders
  • Lead the financial planning processes with strategic insights on trade-off decisions that align to the broader finance and company-based metrics and growth goals
  • Provide advanced subject matter expertise and guidance regarding all finance-related decisions, considering scope and level of business complexity
  • Manage the development of highly complex and intricate financial models, forecasts, proposals, presentations, and performance measures to provide confidence to Sr. Management regarding financial decisions for FCDI
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance required, CPA and/or advanced degree preferred
  • 10 years of relevant finance and accounting management and leadership experience with increasing responsibilities, with demonstrated achievements and progressive responsibilities
  • Experience with both a private and public biotech/pharma company preferred
  • Financial leadership experience, including the building and leading of teams
  • Exceptional MS Office suite of products skills, especially Excel
  • Strong knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS experience also preferred
  • Experience with implementing and maintaining ERP systems, preferably experience with SAP
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively present to and engage with a wide range of audiences
  • Collaborative workstyle focused on building long-term, lasting relationships both internally and externally
  • Hybrid or on-site, must be able to be on-site in Madison, WI two to three days/month
  • Travel up to 10%
Equal Opportunity Employer

FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics Inc. is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation and any other status protected by state or federal law.

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of FUJIFILM about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at FUJIFILM via-email, the internet, or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of FUJIFILM, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by FUJIFILM for this requisition and a valid agreement with FUJIFILM is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the FUJIFILM agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.



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