Sr. Manager, Sec Reporting

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

As the Senior Manager, SEC Reporting, you will facilitate our financial reporting process and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) 404b process, tackling highly complex technical accounting matters. In this hands-on leadership role, you’ll be visible to Recursion’s senior leadership team. In this role, you will:

• Lead Recursion’s Sarbanes-Oxley 404b compliance processes, policies and procedures
• Direct and oversee the external team’s controls design and test, while maintaining a superb vendor relationship
• Ensure top-quality execution of our SOX 404b framework across all business functions 
• Manage the SEC annual and quarterly 10-K / 10-Q filings process including the financial statements, footnotes and MD&A, ensuring compliance with all reporting and disclosure requirements under U.S. GAAP and the SEC (including iXBRL)
• Manage complex accounting processes including revenue, equity, stock-based compensation, EPS, leases, goodwill, intangibles, consolidations and intercompany eliminations
• Assess the impact of financial reporting information received from other functions and service providers
• Partner with Legal and Investor Relations to prepare financial communications for earnings releases and annual reporting
• Stay current on technical accounting matters, assist with research on technical accounting topics, and implementing new accounting standards
• Assist with external auditors quarterly review and annual audit processes
• Liaise with the finance leadership team, external public accountants, attorneys, and internal departments
• Assist with cross-functional projects on an ad-hoc basis (e.g. Financial Planning and Analysis forecasting or finance-related software implementations)
• Develop and implement improvement initiatives to increase the efficiency, accuracy, and timeliness of all financial reporting deliverables

Location:

This hybrid position is based in Salt Lake City, with at least 2 days per week of in-person work at our corporate headquarters.

The Team You’ll Join 

The Senior Manager of SEC Reporting reports to the Director of SEC Reporting and Technical Accounting. This team works on various technical accounting and financial reporting areas including both recurring and non-recurring items. This team works to provide high-caliber technical accounting and financial reporting for the Company. As part of this team you will have broad exposure to numerous teams within Recursion and build strong internal business partnerships. You will also interact with several external business partners.  

The Experience You’ll Need

• Bachelor's degree or Master’s degree in Accounting with 9+ years of experience either at a Big Four public accounting firm or a combination of public accounting and public multinational company experience 
• Active CPA certification preferred
• Pharmaceutical or Biotech industry experience preferred
• Experience leading both SEC reporting and technical accounting
• Deep knowledge of the U.S. GAAP, SOX 404b compliance and SEC reporting regulations
• Strong work ethic and sense of personal responsibility for work outcomes
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft office, ERP applications (general ledger software, consolidation software, etc) and financial reporting tools (such as Workiva)

How You’ll be Supported

• Attend CPE classes including conferences for keeping your CPA license active, to learn from colleagues and network 
• Ability to participate and learn from your colleagues in our regular manager journal club & tech talks
• Option to participate in coaching like BetterUp for leadership skills and development programs
• Team outings and events to help provide an opportunity to network within the finance team and foster a team environment

At Recursion, we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. Based on the skill and level of experience required for this role, the estimated current annual base range for this role is:

• Developing: $146,500
• Skilled: $163,000
• Expert: $179,500

To learn more about our level within levels, click here.

You will also be eligible for bonuses and equity compensation + our comprehensive benefits package for United States based candidates. The range displayed on each job posting reflects target ranges for US new hire salaries and is determined by job, level, and market factors.  

During the interview selection process, you will connect with a Talent Acquisition Partner who will be your advocate and ally to ensure you receive the appropriate compensation that meets your needs for your skills, experience, and relevant education/training, while also reviewing our very competitive total rewards package.

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The Values That We Hope You Share:

• We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
• We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
• We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover. 
• Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
• We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.

Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.

More About Recursion 

Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.

Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation.