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About the Role
Axsome Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Accountant to support accounting operations, financial reporting, compliance, and financial planning activities. This role partners across Finance, Commercial, Supply Chain, and R&D functions, contributing to SEC reporting, internal controls, process improvements, and strategic finance initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Assist with monthly and quarterly close, including preparing journal entries, consolidating financial statements, inventory valuation, revenue recognition, gross to net roll forwards and accruals, accounts receivable analysis, and general ledger account reconciliation and analysis.
- Assist with the preparation of schedules for the financial reporting process and review of 10-Q, 10-K, and SEC filings.
- Support process reviews for automation, system enhancements, and implementation, including ERP, FP&A tools, procure to pay, and order to cash systems.
- Assist with the preparation of the annual budget, quarterly forecast, and variance analysis of budget/forecast to actuals.
- Support international finance operations and activities setup, including banking, VAT registrations and filings, and other relevant commercial operations setup.
- Assist and coordinate tax compliance tasks with tax accountants, including quarterly estimated tax payments and annual tax return filings for various domestic jurisdictions and international countries.
- Support accounts payable, including account coding and management of vendor follow-ups and disputes.
- Support the management of accounts receivables and application of cash.
- Support and assist with independent auditor quarterly reviews and annual audits.
- Participate in the development of control evidence expectations/narratives, detailed SOX testing plans, and reviewing test guidance/scripts for completeness and accuracy.
- Plan, facilitate, and provide guidance with management’s execution and verification that the SOX assessment of internal controls over financial reporting is performed in accordance with the Company’s control assessment approach.
- Support R&D functions, including managing and calculating investigator clinical trial site accruals and payments.
- Collaborate with functional areas, including Supply Chain, Market Access, and Commercial operations on various tasks.
- Create and execute ad hoc reporting, analysis, and internal management reports as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance
- At least 3 years of accounting experience
- Ability to work on site Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
Skills
- Certified Public Accountant a plus
- Sarbanes Oxley experience a plus
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Ability to listen actively and respond to others
- Ability to drive cross functional resolutions
- Willingness to “roll-up their sleeves”
- Ability to take initiative, follow-up, and complete tasks in a timely manner
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to multitask and prioritize
- Team player
- Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- On-site (at least three days per week)
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $82,000 - $95,000
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Significant equity
- Generous benefits package
About the Company
- Axsome Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on treating central nervous system (CNS) conditions.
- We deliver scientific breakthroughs by identifying critical gaps in care and develop differentiated products with a focus on novel mechanisms of action that enable meaningful advancements in patient outcomes.
- Our industry-leading neuroscience portfolio includes FDA-approved treatments for major depressive disorder, agitation associated with dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease, excessive daytime sleepiness associated with narcolepsy and obstructive sleep apnea, and migraine, as well as multiple novel product candidates addressing a broad range of serious neurological and psychiatric conditions that impact over 150 million people in the United States.
- Together, we are on a mission to solve some of the brain’s biggest problems so patients and their loved ones can flourish.
Equal Opportunity
- Axsome is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
- We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.