Senior Financial Analyst

Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k company match

Stock equity awards

Paid time off

Life insurance

Wellness benefits

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Supernus Pharmaceuticals seeks a finance professional to support corporate accounting and business partnerships. You will analyze budget-to-actual results, lead departmental accruals and journal entries, and assist with ad hoc requests as needed.

This role collaborates with department leads to ensure accurate monthly closes, manage operating expenses, and support budgeting, forecasting, vendor verifications, and internal controls under SOX and GAAP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA preferred.
• At least four years of relevant experience; pharma or life sciences preferred.
• Experience with internal controls and SOX 404.
• Familiarity with large data sets and ERP/BI tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication; attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain business relationships with department leads for finance partnering.
• Analyze budget-to-actual results and manage monthly close activities.
• Lead departmental accruals and journal entries; assist ad hoc requests.
• Coordinate with Accounting for budgeting/forecasting, coding, and vendor verifications.
• Ensure invoices are processed and financial information is accurate; support audits.

Skills

GAAP knowledge

SOX compliance

Data extraction

ERP systems

Accounting principles

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

CPA preferred

Tools

Adaptive Insights

ERP systems

Microsoft 365

Job description

Supernus Pharmaceuticals is an award-winning biopharmaceutical company with more than 30 years of experience in developing and commercializing products that treat central nervous system (CNS) diseases. At Supernus, we develop innovative products that help treat neurological and psychiatric conditions. At Supernus, we develop innovative products that help treat neurological and psychiatric conditions. We currently have 8 products in the market that are making a real impact on patient outcomes.

Job Summary:

This role is a key member of the Finance organization that directly supports their corporate accounting and business support functions. This role partners with departments to ensure proper accounting, analysis of budget to actual results, and acting as their primary finance contact. Additionally, this role takes the lead in determining departmental accruals and journal entries and assists with ad hoc requests as needed.

Processing and Operations:

• Support and maintains business relationships with various department leads to provide business partnering and quality service from the Finance Department.
• Support, research, and understands the recording of monthly departmental transactions and activities, including relevant cash transactions.
• Support reconciliations of monthly business activity and agree the general ledger to the relevant source materials, including direct vendor verifications.
• Assists with the preparation of monthly and quarterly management reports of operational results.
• Responsible for the management of Departments’ operational expenses and projected spend.

Financial Close and Accounting:

• Works closely with various departments and Accounting to appropriately budget, forecast, and account for business activities.
• Provides support with annual budgeting/forecasting, financial account coding, purchase requisitions/purchase orders, and finance related questions.
• Performs monthly and quarterly accruals for supported departments and leads meetings to review vendor verifications, projected spend, and accrual data.
• Communicates with other departments and vendors as needed to ensure all invoices are processed and that all financial information is correct at the end of each month.
• Determine vouchered and unvouchered liabilities, assists with general ledger close, as well as support strategic vendor relationships.
• Assists the finance group and other key personnel with the Adaptive budgeting platform.
• Prepares schedules in support of internal and external auditor requests.

Corporate Policies and SOX Controls:

• Complies with and meets all financial close deadlines.
• Maintains compliance with SOX requirements, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and Company policies.
• Conducts other ad-hoc research, data analysis and department financial planning as defined by Management.
• Other Duties as Assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• N/A

Knowledge & Other Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Accounting or Finance/ CPA preferred.
• A minimum of four years of relevant experience, or equivalent public accounting experience preferably within pharmaceutical or life science companies.
• Previous experience working with internal controls and procedures for financial reporting under SOX 404.
• Familiarity working with large data sets, Microsoft 365, adaptive insights, or equivalent systems.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles including balance sheets and profit and loss statements.
• Proven ability to extract pertinent data from ERP systems or other sources.
• Excellent verbal and writing skills.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.

Other Characteristics:

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team and maintain high ethical standards of integrity and quality.
• Ability of having an innovative and dynamic approach to work.
• A self-starter able to work independently but comfortable working in a team environment.
• Ability to consistently exhibit Supernus Values in interactions with employees at all levels of the organization, vendors, customers and others.
• Capable of performing other duties as assigned by Management.
• Authorized to legally work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment/Travel Requirements:

• Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or carrying objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer screen, iPad, or other electronic device; and extensive reading.
• The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions.

Compensation:

At Supernus, we offer a competitive compensation package that reflects your experiences and contributions. The expected salary range for fully qualified candidates applying for this role is $85,000 to $98,000. This range is what the Company reasonably expects to offer for the position and is not reflective of the full compensation scale of the role. This range may be modified in the future. An individual’s salary within the range is based on multiple factors, which may include and are not limited to education, relevant experience, knowledge, length of industry experience and organizational needs.

You also will be able to participate in a competitive benefits package, including but not limited to: health, dental, vision, paid time off, 401k company match, company paid life insurance and health and wellness benefits. The total compensation package for this position also includes other compensation elements such as stock equity awards, employee stock purchase programs and participation in our Company’s discretionary annual bonus program.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age or any other characteristic protected by law.

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