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About the Role
The Senior Accountant will play a key part in day-to-day accounting operations, month-end close process, and lead continuous improvement across the Accounting team. This role focuses on personnel costs like commission, bonus, employee benefits, and stock-based compensation, with flexibility to work across various accounting areas.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and post job-specific journal entries, taking responsibility for underlying calculations and support of varying complexity.
- Prepare GL Account and Financial Statement flux analyses, understanding and communicating activity and drivers for areas such as commission & bonus, stockbased compensation, & employee benefits.
- Prepare rollforward and reconciliation schedules for balance sheet and expense accounts, such as payroll liability, accrued & prepaid bonus, 401K liability, common stock.
- Assist in the preparation of financial statements, including footnote disclosures, for areas of involvement.
- Participate in the design, execution and continuous improvement of the overall closing task list, close calendar and team’s close performance.
- Assist in the development and maintenance of policies and procedures for Close and Technical Accounting areas of involvement.
- Collaborate on new and changing needs, questions and challenges in our systems and processes as they come up, conducting information-gathering, idea generation and solution implementation.
- Participate in the development of best practices, policies, and internal controls that optimize team performance and enable compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Participate in and contribute to financial audits, including preparation of various audit schedules, collation of documents, responding to inquiries and meeting with auditors.
- Lead or assist with other special Finance/Accounting ad hoc projects, as needed.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with various teams throughout the organization including Strategic Finance, Payroll, Accounting, HR, Legal and external auditors.
- Ensure that all activities related to this job position are accomplished in an ethical, prudent and secure manner.
Requirements
- BS/BA in Accounting or equivalent with a solid understanding of GAAP.
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in public accounting and/or working directly in an accounting role.
- Experience with SaaS is strongly preferred.
- Proficiency in NetSuite is strongly preferred.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite with intermediate skills in Excel including VLOOKUP, if functions, pivot tables, etc. desired.
- Detail-oriented with excellent time management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to explain accounting topics in an understandable and logical manner.
- Team player, able to prioritize needs of others and of the team in front of their own.
Skills
- GAAP
- General Ledger Structure
- Personnel Costs Accounting
- Commission Accounting
- Bonus Accounting
- Employee Benefits Accounting
- Stock Based Compensation Accounting
- Financial Close
- Reporting
- Journal Entries
- GL Account Analysis
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Balance Sheet Reconciliation
- Expense Account Reconciliation
- Payroll Liability
- Accrued Bonus
- Prepaid Bonus
- 401K Liability
- Common Stock
- Financial Statements
- Footnote Disclosures
- Policies and Procedures
- Internal Controls
- Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
- Financial Audits
- Audit Schedules
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- MS Office Suite
- Excel (VLOOKUP, IF functions, Pivot Tables)
- NetSuite
- SaaS
- AI fluency
- AI tools (e.g., Gemini, Claude)
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- On-site (3 days per week)
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- BS/BA in Accounting or equivalent
About the Company
- We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
- Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D.
- Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows.
- Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
- We’re building an AI scientist for our customers. We can’t do that if we haven’t built the muscle ourselves.
- AI fluency is the foundation we build on; it's core to how we work, and we're committed to helping every new hire integrate it into their day-to-day.
- As part of our interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today.
Equal Opportunity
- Benchling welcomes everyone.
- We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
- We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.