Senior Accountant

Title: Senior Accountant

Location: Remote

Position Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Accountant who will report to the Accounting Manager. This position plays a critical role in maintaining accurate financial records, processing payroll, supporting accounts payable and ensuring regulatory compliance, including responsibilities related to 401(k) plan administration and workers' compensation audits. The ideal candidate brings strong accounting skills, sound judgment, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

Payroll Functions:

• Process bi-weekly payroll accurately and on time
• Maintain payroll records and employee data, including taxes, benefits, and deductions
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll regulations
• Work with HR to update compensation changes, new hires, terminations, and benefit elections
• Prepare payroll-related journal entries and reconcile payroll accounts
• Respond to employee payroll inquiries and resolve discrepancies
• Support and coordinate the 401(k) compliance and true-up
• Prepare and support workers’ compensation audits by compiling payroll and classification data

Accounts Payable Support:

• Set up new vendors in NetSuite, ensuring appropriate documentation and internal controls are followed
• Confirm and validate vendor banking information to prevent fraud and ensure secure payments
• Create and manage purchase orders
• Compare purchase orders to vendor contracts and invoices to ensure compliance with agreed terms and pricing
• Serve as a backup to the Accounts Payable Specialist during absences or peak periods

General Accounting:

• Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, and month-end close processes
• Maintain fixed asset schedules, accruals, and prepaids
• Support annual audits by providing required documentation and responding to inquiries
• Ensure compliance with GAAP, internal controls, and company policies

Other Duties:

• Assist with special projects and process improvement initiatives
• Collaborate cross-functionally with HR, Operations, and other departments

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• 3 - 5+ years of accounting experience, including payroll processing
• Experience with 401(k) compliance and audit support
• Familiarity with workers’ compensation reporting and audit preparation
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and internal controls
• Preferred experience with NetSuite, Paychex, BambooHR and Employee Navigator
• Advanced Excel skills
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills
• High level of integrity and confidentiality

About Us:

Celcuity is a clinical-stage, publicly traded biotechnology company seeking to extend the lives of cancer patients through the development of targeted therapies for the treatment of multiple solid tumor indications. The company was founded to develop a better way to treat the cellular drivers of tumor growth.

Our lead therapeutic candidate, gedatolisib, is an intravenously administered, potential first-in-class PI3K/AKT/mTOR (PAM) pathway inhibitor. Its mechanism of action and pharmacokinetic properties are highly differentiated from other currently approved and investigational therapies that target PI3K or mTOR alone or together. Gedatolisib phase 3 clinical development programs are focused on the treatment of patients with HR+/HER2- ABC in the 1L and 2L settings. A Phase 1b/2 clinical trial evaluating gedatolisib in combination with darolutamide in patients with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer, is on-going.

Celcuity is an equal-opportunity employer.

Celcuity is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, and we strive to provide employees with total compensation packages that are market competitive. For this role, the anticipated base pay range is $ - $. The exact base pay offered for this role will depend on various factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s geography, qualifications, skills, and experience.

The successful candidate will be eligible for an annual performance incentive bonus and a new hire equity package. Celcuity also offers various benefits offerings, including, but not limited to, medical, dental, vision insurance, 401k match, PTO, and several paid holidays.

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