About The Role

• Accounting & Controls: Ensure timely and accurate recording of revenue, COGS, and expenses across all product lines. Maintain reconciliations, accruals, and closing schedules.
• Audit & Compliance: Lead preparation for the annual audit, liaise with auditors on technical issues (e.g., revenue recognition, asset classification), and ensure compliance with tax and regulatory requirements.
• Budget Tracking: Monitor spend against budget, provide variance analyses, and maintain rolling forecasts with input from department leads.
• Systems & Processes: Recommend and implement scalable general ledger and procurement systems (e.g., Prendio or equivalents) to improve reporting, visibility, and spend control.
• Cash & Runway Visibility: Produce monthly cash flow reports, identify risks to runway, and flag required actions.
• Reporting: Prepare accurate and timely monthly/quarterly financial statements, management reports, and supporting schedules for leadership and investors.
• Payroll: Manage scalable payroll systems and processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance across multiple states, while partnering with HR to support an expanding and distributed workforce.
• Strategy: Serve as a strategic thought partner to leaders across the organization to align financial priorities with R&D, product, commercial and operations strategies.

About You

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance with 10+ years of progressive experience in accounting/finance. CPA certification is strongly preferred.
• You have experience working in a high-growth company, in the life sciences, biotech, or tools/services industry,
• You have strong technical accounting expertise, including revenue recognition, COGS tracking, accruals, and GAAP compliance.
• You have experience with audits, tax compliance, and working directly with external auditors.
• You are proficient with general ledger systems, procurement platforms, and financial reporting tools.
• You’ve demonstrated the ability to build scalable accounting processes and internal controls in a high-growth company.
• You have an analytical mindset with attention to detail; able to identify variances, trends, and risks early.
• You have excellent communication skills, able to translate accounting into clear business insights.

We’re fueled by a vision to transform biological engineering into a fully-fledged engineering discipline. Should you join our team, you will grow with a constantly evolving organization and push the frontiers of synthetic biology. Company culture is key to Asimov, and we believe that our mission can only be achieved by bringing together a diverse team with a mixture of backgrounds and perspectives.

Compensation Range: $170K - $200K