What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Accountant (Temporary Contract) position at BioSpace?
Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Team You’ll Join
As a Senior Accountant, you will be a member of the Finance Team reporting directly to the Assistant Controller. You will be involved with internal and external financial reporting processes and will interact with the broader Finance team. You will need self-initiative, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to transparently communicate with organization team members.
Please note: This is a temporary contract role through January 2026.
The Impact You’ll Make
More About Recursion
Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.
Recursion is headquartered inSalt Lake City, where it is a founding member ofBioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more atwww.Recursion.com, or connect onX(formerly Twitter) andLinkedIn.
Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation. Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.
The Team You’ll Join
As a Senior Accountant, you will be a member of the Finance Team reporting directly to the Assistant Controller. You will be involved with internal and external financial reporting processes and will interact with the broader Finance team. You will need self-initiative, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to transparently communicate with organization team members.
Please note: This is a temporary contract role through January 2026.
The Impact You’ll Make
- Work closely with the Accounting Manager to ensure the month-end close process runs smoothly
- Create GL entries and prepare reconciliations for the month and quarter close process
- Assist in the preparation of monthly/quarterly finance packages for senior management
- Assist on special projects and provide ad hoc analysis as directed
- Prepare financial and SOX audit testing documentation
- 3 years of accounting experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance or related field is required
- Big Four or public company a plus
- ERP experience preferred, experience with Microsoft Dynamics a plus
- SOX experience
- Working knowledge of Excel
- Experience identifying issues and resolving complex problems
- Highly positive and collaborative individual that excels at communication, developing working relationships, building consensus and fostering trust
- Flexible, organized, and able to work under time constraints/deadlines
- We act boldly with integrity. We are unconstrained in our thinking, take calculated risks, and push boundaries, but never at the expense of ethics, science, or trust.
- We care deeply and engage directly. Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect - showing up, speaking honestly, and taking action.
- We learn actively and adapt rapidly. Progress comes from doing. We experiment, test, and refine, embracing iteration over perfection.
- We move with urgency because patients are waiting. Speed isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
- We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability, we enable trust and autonomy—leaders take accountability for decisive action, and teams own outcomes together.
More About Recursion
Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.
Recursion is headquartered inSalt Lake City, where it is a founding member ofBioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more atwww.Recursion.com, or connect onX(formerly Twitter) andLinkedIn.
Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation. Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.
