What are the responsibilities and job description for the Controller position at Rapport Therapeutics?
As a word, Rapport describes relationships characterized by understanding, communication, teamwork, and trust. We reflect those qualities in our daily work, where we operate as one committed team that captures the collective knowledge and experience of all our members to maximally improve patients' lives. And at a higher level we share an ambition and a passion to create impactful neuromedicines, with fewer side effects, that allow patients and their families to live healthier and more fulfilling lives.
On a molecular scale, our deep understanding of the intricate relationships between receptors, their associated proteins, and their distributions in specific cell types and brain regions enables us to precisely direct medicines to the neural circuits underlying disease pathophysiology.
Responsibilities:
- Monthly close processes and procedures, general accounting, internal management reporting and technical accounting matters.
- Supervise AR, AP, payroll, technical accounting, fixed assets, treasury, and equity awards.
- Prepare the consolidated financial statements; ensure proper external reporting and filing in compliance with regulations.
- Partner with the management team by researching, evaluating, and documenting accounting implications of complex transactions and collaborations; manage technical accounting assessments.
- Serve as the liaison to external auditors and manage the annual financial audit.
- Recommend and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency, internal controls and enable timely business decisions.
- Partner and collaborate with business stakeholders to recommend system improvements or integrations to enable improved financial reporting or analyses.
- Ensure processes and people are in place to deliver timely and accurate monthly financial statements.
- Support the establishment and monitoring of strong internal controls across the organization.
- Coordinate with the insurance broker and carriers to properly mitigate risk.
- Build financial infrastructure and policies that will support the company's growth and drive continuous improvements in financial systems and processes.
- Serve as a business partner and build relationships cross-functionally to foster collaboration both inside and outside of accounting.
- Direct and lead accounting teams in the development, implementation, and oversight of company-wide accounting policies and controls consistent with SEC, US GAAP, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
- Manage relationship and reporting matters with the audit firm and interface effectively with external and internal audit resources to resolve complex accounting and auditing issues.
- Work closely with the FP&A team to support external reporting requirements.
- Participate and collaborate with company programs, projects, and objectives which require extensive communication, change management, and interactions with other finance leaders (e.g., FP&A, investor relations) and the CFO, as well as other functional leaders.
- Responsible for departmental operating budgets and preparation of board-level and management reports.
- Support analysis of key business development initiatives and partnerships from an accounting perspective.
- Be a key team member in identifying and managing areas of enterprise risk.
- Engage with audit committee and executive management through compelling presentations.
- Other projects based on business needs.
Requirements:
- Bachelors' or Masters' degree in Accounting with current CPA accreditation required
- 8 years of work experience in public accounting
- Biotech/pharmaceutical industry experience
Preferred Experience:
- Proficiency with Quickbooks, Carta, Prendio, and Bill is beneficial
- Experience with the implementation of an ERP system such as NetSuite, Oracle or SAP
- Experience with the implementation of a purchase requisition tool such as Coupa or Ariba
- Experience with the implementation of a T&E spend management system such as Concur
Rapport Therapeutics is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
Note to Employment Agencies: Please do not forward any agency resumes. The company will not be responsible for any fees related to resumes that are unsolicited.
CCPA disclosure notice can be found here.
