Senior Accountant-CPA

Position Overview

The Senior Accounting role at FDB is a critical position that oversees the company’s accounting functions, ensuring compliance with generally accepted accounting principles, company policies and financial management practices specific to the contract manufacturing industry. This role demands exceptional organizational abilities, a strong technical accounting background and outstanding communication skills. The successful candidate will effectively manage multiple projects and assignments with competing deadlines.

Company Overview

Follow Your Genki to North America's largest, state-of-the-art Life Science Manufacturing Facility & CDMO

The work we do at FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies has never been more important—and we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations, our capabilities, and our teams, and looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people’s lives. Join FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies and help manufacture the next vaccine, cure, or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy and drive - what we call Genki.

Join us

We are growing our locations and are investing more than $2 billion into establishing a new large-scale manufacturing site for biopharmaceuticals in the United States to accelerate the growth of our Bio CDMO (Contract and Development Manufacturing Organization) business. This will be the largest end-to-end cell culture CDMO provider in North America.

The new site will offer end-to-end solutions to our customers looking to manufacture biopharmaceuticals in the US. In addition to drug substance manufacture, it will also provide automated fill-finish and assembly, packaging, and labeling services. The new state-of-the-art facility is located in Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States.

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Prepares detailed journal entries, general ledger account reconciliations and analytics to support financial reporting and control environment.
• Assists in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and disclosures, supporting external reporting obligations and audit processes.
• Assists in maintaining effective internal controls over accounting processes, ensuring adherence to US GAAP, SOX, and JSOX requirements.
• Performs monthly and quarterly reconciliations of general ledger accounts, investigating and resolving any variances or discrepancies promptly.
• Manages the full lifecycle of fixed assets, including Right of Use (ROU) assets, acquisition, capitalization, depreciation, impairment testing, and disposal, ensuring adherence to US GAAP and company policies.
• Monitors and reports on capital project progress for local site projects and strategic capital initiatives.
• Assists with tracking, reporting and filing of grants, ensuring compliance with funding requirements and accurate financial representation in alignment with organizational objectives and accounting standards.
• Assists with tax information requests and data for annual tax return preparation.
• Assists with audit information requests and data for internal and external audits.
• Prepares and monitor cash flow forecasts to ensure optimal liquidity, identifying trends and variances to guide financial decision-making.
• Actively participates in accounting system user acceptance testing (UAT) for system automation and system enhancements.
• Identifies, presents, and implements solutions for process improvements, automation opportunities and enhanced area reporting capabilities.
• Maintains and regularly reviews and updates finance procedures applicable to the role.
• Performs ad hoc analysis, special projects and other duties as assigned

Knowledge and Skills

• High level of integrity and ethical conduct in financial activities
• Exceptional attention to detail, with the ability to resolve discrepancies.
• Well-organized with ability to prioritize.
• Attention to detail and problem-solving ability.
• Self-motivated with ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing tasks effectively.
• Ability to deliver results with a strong sense of urgency.
• Positive ‘can-do’ attitude willing to get the job done and done well.
• Highly collaborative team player

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field with 5 years of accounting experience.
• Experience in and knowledge of US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) and regulations.
• Experience in data analysis and forecasting.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel

Preferred Requirements / Certificates

• Experience in accounting auditing.
• Experience with revenue recognition principles and accounting.
• CPA certification

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of FUJIFILM about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at FUJIFILM via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of FUJIFILM, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by FUJIFILM for this requisition and a valid agreement with FUJIFILM is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the FUJIFILM agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.