The Cost Accounting Manager designs and scales cost accounting processes, performs financial closings, and analyzes costs to support GRAIL's commercial growth.
Our mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. We are working to change the trajectory of cancer mortality and bring stakeholders together to adopt innovative, safe, and effective technologies that can transform cancer care.
We are a healthcare company, pioneering new technologies to advance early cancer detection. We have built a multi-disciplinary organization of scientists, engineers, and physicians and we are using the power of next-generation sequencing (NGS), population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to overcome one of medicine’s greatest challenges.
GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. It is supported by leading global investors and pharmaceutical, technology, and healthcare companies.
For more information, please visit grail.com.
The Cost Accounting Manager is a key contributor in the Finance organization, supporting the cost accounting department on day-to-day product cost and inventory accounting-related activities. They are an accounting professional with experience in a fast-paced private or public company environment who has demonstrated success in scaling and optimizing cost accounting to support a growing and evolving business.
This is a hybrid role and requires you to be onsite 2 days a week in Menlo Park, CA.
Responsibilities:
- Design and scale cost accounting processes and procedures to support GRAIL’s commercial growth
- Perform month/quarter end financial close processes related to cost of revenue, including posting and reviewing of JEs, flux analysis, and reconciliations
- Partner with the Operations and FP&A functions, among others, to deliver cost accounting reporting and insights
- Analyze standard and actual costs, direct and indirect materials, direct labor, and overhead costs for variances and drive the efforts to address the underlying root causes
- Develop and maintain a methodology for calculating and applying material costs, labor costs, and overhead rates as required by generally accepted accounting principles
- Prepare detailed calculations for inventory reserves and overhead allocations
- Drive continuous improvement in the cost accounting system infrastructure
- Support quarterly reviews and annual audits, lead yearly inventory count activities
- Resolve inventory and system inquiries
- Collaborate with the Lab and Accounting teams in the development of processes, procedures, and SOX controls to ensure the accuracy of inventory data, and implement changes as needed
- Participate in special projects and ad hoc analysis
Preferred Qualifications:
- 6+ year cost accounting experience in a manufacturing or genetics company (preferred)
- 2 +years public accounting experience (preferred)Advanced analytical, project management and spreadsheet skills (Google Sheets preferred)
- Experience with Netsuite is required
- Demonstrates a sense of urgency and ability to remain flexible in a dynamic, fast-paced environmentExcellent professional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
Expected full time annual base pay scale for this position is $130K-$163K. Actual base pay will consider skills, experience and location.
Based on the role, colleagues may be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan tied to company and individual performance, or an incentive plan. We also offer a long-term incentive plan to align company and colleague success over time.
In addition, GRAIL offers a progressive benefit package, including flexible time-off, a 401k with a company match, and alongside our medical, dental, vision plans, carefully selected mindfulness offerings.
GRAIL is an Equal Employment Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We will reasonably accommodate all individuals with disabilities so that they can participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. GRAIL maintains a drug-free workplace.
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NetSuite
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