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CerusPosted 1 month ago

Controller

$252,000–$298,000 year

HybridConcord, California, United States

Full TimeSenior LevelMasters DegreeMedium

Job Summary

Lead global corporate and operational accounting functions, including SEC financial reporting, internal controls, and international teams. Manage external auditors, valuation experts, and third-party firms while overseeing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and government contract accounting. Liaise with legal, sales, operations, and IT to drive results across commercial, publicly traded, and global organizations. Prepare materials for the Board of Directors' Audit Committee and evolve financial reporting systems. This role requires a CPA and 12+ years of experience in a dynamic environment, with a hybrid schedule based in Concord, CA.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree
  • CPA license
  • >12 years related experience
  • At least 3-5 years with big four auditing firm
  • Experience managing accounting functions in a dynamic, global, commercial, publicly traded company
  • Strong work ethic
  • willingness to coordinate with global teams, as needed
  • Experience with accounting for companies with operational accounting (revenue recognition, inventory valuation, costing)
  • Demonstrated knowledge of GAAP
  • Demonstrated managerial capability in a growing and changing company
  • ability to initiate and make improvements to processes and procedures
  • Demonstrated drive for results
  • Hands-on management
  • ability and desire to manage
  • perform the detailed work personally
  • Demonstrated time management skills
  • schedules
  • timelines
  • task prioritization
  • Strong communication skills
  • written and verbal
  • ability to, coordinate and interact with, board level, executive management, middle management and personnel within other departments
  • Demonstrated success in collaborating with other functional areas
  • e.g., research, clinical development, regulatory, sales ops
  • Working knowledge and experience with financial software
  • Strong analytical and organizational skills
  • Strong leadership, management and mentoring skill
  • team oriented
  • Demonstrated accuracy
  • ability to focus on detail
  • while understanding the relevance and application of that detail to the larger business at hand
  • Flexible
  • ability to adapt to changing priorities

Desired Qualifications

  • Lean six-sigma / kaizen experience
  • Oracle

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