Key Responsibilities
- Operational Accounting
- Lead the month-end and year-end financial close process, ensuring timely and accurate general ledger reconciliations and journal entries
- Working closely with procurement team to ensure compliance including approvals, GL coding, and disbursements.
- Work closely with offshore accounting support team.
- Maintain and reconcile fixed asset schedules, ensuring appropriate capitalization and depreciation policies are followed
- Manage corporate card program
- Monitor and amortize prepaid expenses, ensuring accuracy and completeness of schedules
- Oversee cash and investment accounts reconciliation and reporting, including coordination of banking transactions and cash flow forecasting
- Prepare audit schedules and other financial analytics
- Systems & Process Enhancement
- Lead or support the implementation of new procure-to-pay systems or enhancements and strength internal control environments
- Identify and drive process improvements and automation opportunities across accounting workflows
- Ensure systems are configured to support scalable and SOX-compliant processes
- Other
- Collaborate with FP&A, Procurement, IT and Payroll to ensure cross-functional alignment and efficiency
- Provide support for external financial audits, tax provision calculation, tax filings, and other regulatory requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related discipline; CPA or equivalent preferred
- 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including in biotech, pharma, or high-growth life sciences
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP and accounting operations, including payables, general ledger, cash, and fixed assets
- Hands on system experience (NetSuite, Coupa, etc.)
- Proven experience leading or supporting financial systems implementations (NetSuite, Coupa, Concur, etc.)
- Experience with SOX compliance and internal controls with a publicly traded company
- Advanced Excel skills and familiarity with reporting tools (e.g., Netsuite)
- Strong project management and cross-functional communication skills
- Detail oriented and team focused
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
Top Skills
What We Do
Kyverna is a cell therapy company engineering and developing a new class of curative living medicines for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Using its SmarTcell™ approach which includes synReg-T cell and synNotch CAR-T technology platforms, Kyverna reprograms T cells to target and selectively suppress or eliminate autoreactive immune cells. The company’s goal is to develop therapies that are selective, potent and durable to tame autoimmunity.
We build interdisciplinary teams that bring a broad range of experiences and scientific expertise together to develop medicines that will free patients from the siege of autoimmune diseases and bring curiosity for exploring and creating the unknown. Our commitment to our employees is to foster an open, supportive, and inclusive environment where we create opportunities for individuals to learn and grow to their full potential at every level.
synNotch is a trademark of Gilead/Kite.
