Our start up pharma client is looking for an experienced Director of Finance & Accounting to lead financial strategy and operational accounting for a growing organization in Bridgewater, New Jersey. This role partners closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to guide planning, strengthen reporting, and support high-impact business decisions. The ideal candidate brings strong technical accounting knowledge, sound judgment, and the ability to translate financial insights into practical recommendations across research, clinical, manufacturing, and commercial activities.
Responsibilities:
- Assist with capital raises, investors and facilitating shareholder questions.
- Oversee long-range planning, annual budgets, and recurring forecasts, maintaining reliable assumptions and clear alignment with company objectives.
- Lead monthly close activities and consolidated financial reporting for operating entities, ensuring timely, accurate results for management review.
- Assist with M& A Transactions and create a pre-IPO map for the finance function
- Coordinate the company’s Oracle NetSuite rollout and act as a key internal resource for adoption, user guidance, and process consistency.
- Track construction-related spending for the manufacturing site, analyze budget-to-actual performance, and communicate meaningful variances to senior leadership.
- Manage relationships with external advisors handling technical accounting matters and work closely with auditors to support an efficient year-end audit process.
- Build and formalize internal control procedures suited to a private, expanding business, reducing risk while supporting scalable operations.
- Collaborate with development, commercial, and market access teams to forecast pipeline costs, assess project economics, and develop models that inform profitability and investment decisions.
- Support executive leadership on transactions, tax coordination, and investor communications, including preparation of financial materials and responses to stakeholder inquiries.
- Bachelors Degree in Accounting
- CPA highly preferred
- 5+ years of experience
- Big 4 experience highly preferred
- Start - Up Pharma experience highly preferred
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