Scholar Rock

Director of Accounting Operations

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Cambridge, MA, USA

Hybrid

200K-235K Annually

Expert/Leader

Healthtech • Information Technology • Biotech • Pharmaceutical

The Role

The Director of Accounting Operations will manage all accounting operations, ensuring compliance and scalability while leading the accounting team and processes.

Summary Generated by Built In

Scholar Rock is the only company to show clinical proof of concept for a muscle-targeted treatment in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). This commitment to unlocking fundamentally different therapeutic approaches is powered by broad application of a proprietary platform, which has developed novel monoclonal antibodies to modulate protein growth factors with extraordinary selectivity. By harnessing cutting-edge science in disease spaces that are historically under-addressed through traditional therapies, Scholar Rock works every day to create new possibilities for patients. Learn more about the company’s approach at ScholarRock.com and follow @ScholarRock and on LinkedIn.

Summary of Position:

Reporting to the SVP, Finance, the Director of Accounting Operations will have responsibility for the Accounting operations function at Scholar Rock. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in managing accounting processes in a public company with a commercial asset. To lead the accounting function, the candidate will be required to have in-depth knowledge of accounting processes and systems including the general ledger, payroll, equity, and T&E systems. The successful candidate will have a working knowledge of consolidations, accounting for clinical trials, cost accounting, transparency reporting, intercompany reconciliations, payroll, and equity, as well as having a strategic focus to ensure the systems and processes are scalable to meet the growing needs of the Company, while still maintaining compliance with internal control requirements.

This position will require a hands-on approach, strong organization, clear communication, attention to detail and a great sense of teamwork. This position represents a great opportunity to help build a critical function at a growing and evolving, multi-product candidate biotechnology company.

Position Responsibilities

Oversee and lead all accounting operations activities including consolidations involving multiple subsidiaries, monthly close processes, intercompany, payroll and equity.
Help to build and scale accounting operations team, including creating processes to enable timely closing procedures that are scalable for growth
Ensure strong internal control environment is maintained
Assist in setting up policies related to travel and transparency reporting;
Position will also require partnership with various members of cross functional teams
Ability to capitalize on team member strengths and raise the team as a whole
Assist in ad-hoc projects as needed

Candidate Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, Accounting, or Finance
CPA and/or MBA preferred
Hands-on knowledge of accounting operations and processes
Prior management of an accounting team
Excellent communication and relationship building skills
Familiarity with internal controls requirements in a public company
Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at one time
Thrives in a dynamic environment
Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
At least 10 years of applicable experience in a pharmaceutical or biotechnology environment with prior experience in a public company
Experience with Netsuite and/or SAP a plus

Scholar Rock is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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The Company

Cambridge, Massachusetts

187 Employees

Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Scholar Rock is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and delivers life-changing therapies for people with serious diseases that have high unmet need. As a global leader in the biology of the transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) superfamily of cell proteins and named for the visual resemblance of a scholar rock to protein structures, the clinical-stage company is focused on advancing innovative treatments where protein growth factors are fundamental. Over the past decade, the company has created a pipeline with the potential to advance the standard of care for neuromuscular disease, cardiometabolic disorders, cancer, and other conditions where growth factor-targeted drugs can play a transformational role. Scholar Rock is the only company to show clinical proof of concept for a muscle-targeted treatment in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). This commitment to unlocking fundamentally different therapeutic approaches is powered by broad application of a proprietary platform, which has developed novel monoclonal antibodies to modulate protein growth factors with extraordinary selectivity. By harnessing cutting-edge science in disease spaces that are historically under-addressed through traditional therapies, Scholar Rock works every day to create new possibilities for patients. Learn more about the company’s approach at ScholarRock.com and follow @ScholarRock and on LinkedIn. For additional information on our guidelines, please visit https://scholarrock.com/community-guidelines/ For more information on how Scholar Rock collects, uses, and shares personal information, please visit: https://scholarrock.com/privacy-policy