Inozyme Pharma - Boston, MA
posted 3 months ago
The Finance team at Inozyme Pharma is seeking an energetic, highly motivated, and experienced accounting and finance professional to fill a critical role responsible for partnering with the clinical operations and clinical manufacturing teams, performing month-end closes, and assisting with oversight of R&D spend. This position is essential for ensuring the financial integrity of the R&D functions and will involve close collaboration with various departments to provide financial insights and support. The successful candidate will report to the Senior Manager, Accounting & Finance, and will be expected to possess strong analytical and collaboration skills, as well as the ability to respectfully challenge the status quo while always looking for opportunities for improvement. In this role, the candidate will establish strong collaborative relationships with Clinical Operations and CMC teams to provide financial support for clinical study and manufacturing spend. They will lead and ensure the smooth execution of monthly and quarterly R&D closing processes to drive timely financial reporting. The candidate will prepare journal entries, provide appropriate support, and resolve all reconciling items for each accounting period for clinical and CMC along with other R&D functions as needed. Additionally, they will partner with department heads and operations teams to review and conclude on monthly accruals, analyze and provide commentary on the balance sheet and income statement variances, and assist with the preparation of monthly and ad-hoc reporting for senior management. The role also involves collaborating with the accounting team to support external audits and assist with the preparation of workpapers in advance of audits. The candidate will support financial analysis and reporting for Clinical Operations and CMC, including monthly budget to actuals reviews, and will be involved in the annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasting cycles. Maintaining modeling for clinical trials and manufacturing to ensure accuracy in the latest estimate forecasting will also be a key responsibility. The candidate will take a lead role in special projects focused on improving the quality and efficiency of accounting processes, particularly to streamline and shorten the close process, and manage additional projects and requests as needed.