• Manage the monthly accounting close calendar to ensure the books are consistently closed on time • Reconcile select general ledger accounts • Account for complex transactions, including clinical trials, manufacturing and research contracts, and corporate collaborations • Maintain a chart of accounts, setting up new accounts and departments, as necessary • Prepare and manage general ledger postings to ensure proper coding to accounts and departments, and identify any discrepancies • Generate reports from the accounting system to populate the monthly financial reporting package and departmental reports, including monthly analysis of variances to budget and forecast • Update foreign exchange rates in the foreign exchange workbook and all accounting systems • Prepare monthly intercompany reconciliation and identify missing transactions • Draft the monthly intercompany foreign exchange impact journal entries • Maintain the monthly retained earnings rollforward • Prepare consolidated financial statements in the reporting currency • Oversee the preparation and filing of state and local tax returns • Provide support to external audit and tax firms • Support the quarterly and long-range forecasting process • Design and develop queries of financial data using pivot tables, v-lookups, macros, and other complex Excel functions • Provide financial analysis to departments, as requested • Support the Company’s development, implementation, and maintenance of Sarbanes-Oxley processes and controls • Participate in the Company’s migration to a new accounting system • Coordinate special projects/programs, as requested • Help with research of complex accounting issues, including reference to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles • Hire, train, and supervise staff