Senior Cost Accountant

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South San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
Cloud • Biotech
The Role

About Us:

Culture’s mission is to simplify and accelerate bioprocess development to enable our customers to bring their biopharmaceutical products to market faster.

With a focus on upstream cell culture process development, Culture has developed a unique platform that merges products, services and data management that can be applied to mammalian, microbial and viral vector production processes. This platform enables high-throughput process development projects to be rapidly and seamlessly executed directly by our customers in their own facilities, in our service laboratories, or both, all driven by our cloud-connected web application, accessible from anywhere, for designing, managing and analyzing experiments.

At Culture, we combine our passions for biomanufacturing, engineering, and operations to build new solutions that make bioprocess development faster. We value curiosity, communication, collaboration, a customer focused mindset and a drive for results.

The Opportunity: 

Culture Biosciences is looking for a Senior Cost Accountant. Your focus will be responsible for the overall financial management of the Company’s cost accounting system, including the review and maintenance of average costs, inventory analysis, variance analysis and other costs that impact both inventory and manufacturing costs.

What you'll do:

  • Major responsibilities include inventory valuation and control, cost of sales, product margins, and cost analyses as required
  • The Cost Accountant is responsible for the cost system including system integrity, data collection, and margin analysis reporting
  • Perform all cost accounting activities including inventory valuation, cost of sales, product profitability and cost ratio analyses, variance analysis, etc
  • Provide reporting and analysis including manufacturing productivity, capital budget review, budget and forecasting support, quoting support, as well as developing labor and overhead rates, etc
  • Maintenance and review of average costs of manufactured goods
  • Develop and analyze cost standards
  • Support Controller as required for the monthly financial close to ensure timely financial reporting
  • Communicate and explain cost and financial performance results to a broad range of audiences
  • Participate in the development of annual budgets and operating plans
  • Validate revenue and cost of goods sold as part of the month-end close and forecast
  • Support external financial audits on product costing and inventory valuation
  • Provide analysis to assist operational improvement initiatives, developing and maintaining key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Provide analysis on capital expenditure projects
  • Perform other duties as assigned

About you:

  • BS in Accounting or related field required.
  • 3-5 years of hands-on manufacturing cost accounting/finance experience
  • Experience working in medical device and/or biotech hardware manufacturing is preferred.
  • Must possess hands-on functional expertise including working knowledge of cost accounting/control, inventory and production planning.
  • Experience supporting operations and other departments.
  • NetSuite experience required and knowledge EMS a plus.
  • Advanced Excel skills and proficient knowledge and skill in other Microsoft Office Suite applications.

Location & Schedule: 

  • This is an onsite position. We’re looking for someone based in the San Francisco Bay Area who is able to work in person at our office in South San Francisco at least 4 days per week. 

Base Salary Range:

Culture Biosciences's compensation package includes market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, and great benefits. Our expected salary range for this role is $105,000 to $130,000. We are hiring for multiple levels and backgrounds so final offers may vary within the range provided based on experience, expertise, and other factors.

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and equity compensation
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance
  • Medical and Dependent Care FSA (prorated based on start-date)
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Responsible Time Off (non-accrual based) policy, 11 paid company holidays and a week-long winter break
  • 12 weeks of parental leave at full salary

Culture Biosciences provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. We seek to build a company that promotes inclusion and expands the diversity of our industry as a whole. We encourage people with identities underrepresented in biotech and technology to apply.

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The Company
HQ: South San Francisco, CA
86 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Culture’s mission is to make bioprocess development and scale-up as fast and easy as scaling software. Towards this aim, Culture’s first offering enables biopharma, biotechnology, and synthetic biology companies to run their bioprocessing R&D in the cloud. Clients design, manage, and analyze bioprocess experiments in Culture’s Console web application. Culture’s offering enables customers to focus on designing and improving their process versus spending time and effort building out their own high-throughput process development laboratory. While customers remotely observe the process and analyze data, the experiments are executed in Culture’s cloud bioreactor facility in South San Francisco. The facility is enabled by Culture’s proprietary 250mL and 5L single-use bioreactor technology and software systems. At Culture, we combine our passions for biomanufacturing, engineering, and operations to build new solutions that make bioprocess development and scale-up faster.

Why Work With Us

At Culture we have a team-first culture. Our company values are: *Lift others up. Because we all do better when we help each other succeed. *Commitment to reliability. Our teammates and customers are counting on us. *Think like an owner. Progress is driven by teams who care. *Try new things. Big innovations start with small ideas and actions

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