Chief Accounting Officer

4 days ago

San Francisco, California, United States Benchling Full time
About the Role

Benchling is seeking a seasoned Chief Accounting Officer to lead our accounting functions and drive financial growth. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for overseeing all accounting activities, including corporate accounting, international accounting, consolidations, external reporting, technical accounting, audits, payroll, and global tax.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Financial Leadership: Direct and lead accounting teams in the oversight of company-wide accounting policies and controls consistent with SEC, US GAAP, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
  2. Accounting Strategy: Plan and direct all accounting activities across the organization, to ensure compliance with GAAP, SEC regulations, SOX, statutory guidelines, and internal financial policies and procedures.
  3. Financial Reporting: Coordinate the preparation of the company's financial statements and drive external reporting, including presentations and direct communication with the external auditors, the Audit Committee and the Board.
  4. Team Development: Provide leadership required to strengthen and grow the Accounting team, with a commitment to recruiting, training, and mentoring.
  5. Financial Systems: Partner with the FP&A organization to ensure the accuracy of the financial statements through a monthly executive review of revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities.
  6. Global Growth: Build the technical infrastructure and control environment to support the company's global growth and readiness for public life.
  7. Process Improvement: Leverage technology to build scalable/sustainable processes to create efficiencies, streamline accounting operations, and improve the employee experience.
  8. Compliance: Establish strong relationships with inter-departmental peers and be the go-to accounting source in the Company.
  9. Financial Planning: Continually evaluate and optimize month-end close processes, striving to deliver process automation, improved accuracy, and higher customer service.
  10. Accounting Policies: Develop/enhance, implement and enforce accounting policies and procedures that will improve the overall operation and reduce risks of the business.
  11. International Accounting: Manage insourced and outsourced international accountants for general accounting, payroll, tax, statutory accounts, and compliance.
  12. External Audit: Manage the annual consolidated external audit working with independent auditors.
Requirements
  1. Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business; MBA or Masters in Accounting preferred.
  2. Experience: Minimum 10 years accounting and finance experience, with a minimum of 8 years in a financial senior leadership position in a public technology company.
  3. Skills: Experience managing international accounting functions at both a corporate and a business unit-level for a global publicly-traded company, including consolidating US and non-US financial statements rolling up to the corporate level.
  4. Leadership: Experience presenting to Board of Directors, Audit Committees and other internal and external decision-makers.
  5. Industry Knowledge: Significant experience in SaaS business models.
  6. Financial Expertise: Expert knowledge of financial activities, policies, and processes, including multi-currency consolidations, SEC reporting, and Sarbanes-Oxley.
  7. Leadership Qualities: Must be a proven and effective leader that garners trust and loyalty from team members.
  8. Technical Skills: Demonstrated proficiency in enhancing financial systems to enable efficiency and scalability of the business and accounting functions.

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