Senior Accountant, Commercial

Hybrid/Relocation to Alaminos City, Pangasinan is highly encouraged

Who you are-

The Senior Accountant, Commercial is an integral part of a growing accounting team and is primarily responsible for overseeing commercial expense accruals for sales and marketing-related spend. This role also plays a key part in the month-end close process for the commercial process by ensuring accurate and timely recording of journal entries, analyses, and reconciliation of accruals in accordance with Company policies and GAAP.

This position requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, including commercial, finance, and external partners to ensure completeness and accuracy of expense recognition.

A successful candidate thrives in fast-paced, rapidly growing environment and is proactive, highly organized, and results oriented. This candidate also needs to possess strong analytical skills, exception attention to detail, and excellent communication abilities, with a high level of motivation to consistently delivery high quality work.

• Oversee and maintain the commercial accrual tracker to ensure completeness and accuracy of expense accruals recording
• Assess contracts for nonstandard terms that could have accounting implications and provide recommendations on how the contract should be accounted for
• Manage vendor communication and internal business leaders to obtain estimate for work performed
• Analyze invoices for appropriate coding
• Analyze fluxes for the related contracts/PO’s
• Prepare monthly accounting close workpapers and analyses for the assigned GL accounts to ensure accurate and timely recognition of expenses, prepayments and deposits, and accrual accounts.
• Prepare journal entries and related supporting workpapers adhering to the quality and compliance requirements.
• Prepare general ledger account reconciliations for assigned accounts, primarily related to commercial accounting
• Prepare rollforward schedules and tie-out schedules for assigned 10Q/10K footnote disclosures, and other ad hoc requested schedules/analyses.
• Discuss and liaise with key contacts in other business units to manage prepayment and accrual processes, including organizing meetings and resolving outstanding items.
• Compliance with SOX requirements—ensure control procedures are executed and workpaper documentations are SOX compliant; prepare all required data and analysis to support external audit, internal control and SOX testing requests, among others.
• Collaborate, liaise and assist other accounting team members, as needed.
• Process improvements using AI tools
• Work on adhoc projects to streamline our close and processes.

• Degree in accounting. CPA preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in a publicly traded company (combination of Big 4 or similar in SEC clients and industry experience) – strongly preferred
• Biotech experience a plus
• Experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Coupa)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Proficient in AI tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Clause, Google Gemini

AI Requirements:

Foundational Knowledge: Understanding of AI concepts, including machine learning, natural language processing, and data-driven decision-making.

Applied Skills: Demonstrated experience using AI tools and platforms (e.g., generative AI, predictive analytics, automation solutions) to solve business problems or improve workflows.

Problem-Solving with AI: Ability to identify opportunities where AI can add value, evaluate potential risks or limitations, and implement solutions effectively.

Behavioral Characteristics:

• Strong work ethic including sound judgement, outstanding interpersonal skills and ability to work independently
• Able to work with high volume of transactions in a fast-paced environment
• Results and detailed-oriented mindset with an opportunistic eye towards process improvements
• Strong ability to prioritize and organize work effectively
• Must be able to collaborate and communicate (oral and written) effectively
• High sense of urgency and ability to identify creative solutions to advanced, time sensitive problems by balancing achievement of process objectives with practical considerations.
• High degree of organizational agility, able to handle sensitive issues with prudent discretion across all levels of the organization
• Commitment to delivering quality results and overcoming obstacles and challenges in a time-sensitive environment
• Excellent project management. Ability to juggle and prioritize multiple work streams while remaining calm and effective under pressure