[Hiring] Senior Accountant, Business Operations @PharmaforceIQ

Role Description

PharmaForceIQ is seeking a Senior Accountant, Business Operations to optimize our financial infrastructure and serve as a key operational partner. We are seeking a forward-thinking professional to transform our core systems—leveraging modern platforms such as Rillet ERP, Ramp, and Tabs—to drive automation, streamline workflows, and elevate commercial decision-making. Beyond core accounting responsibilities, this individual will play a pivotal role in delivering strategic insights that advance our business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy and automation
  • Identify opportunities to automate transactional accounting work and recommend in-app agents, tools, workflows, or configurations to capture them.
  • Apply AI tools to improve accuracy, speed, and insight across the finance function, from close activities to variance analysis to reporting.
  • Evaluate the current finance stack and recommend improvements.
  • Propose process redesigns that reduce manual effort, close time, and error rates, with a view toward scaling the function without adding headcount.
  • Benchmark our processes against industry best practice and bring forward ideas the Controller and leadership can act on.
  • Partner with the Controller on roadmap decisions for Rillet, Ramp, Tabs, and future finance systems.
• Business operations partnership
  • Partner with the delivery team on third-party spend: category tracking, vendor accruals, and spend governance inside Ramp.
  • Support Ramp operations: approval workflow maintenance, category and CoA mapping, card issuance, policy enforcement, and spend reporting back to budget owners.
  • Prepare monthly budget-vs-actual packages for department leads: pull actuals, map to budget, build variance detail with drivers and commentary, and distribute for review.
  • Maintain operational finance reporting that ties financial actuals to business metrics (project-level spend, department budgets, vendor concentration).
  • Support order-to-cash with commercial ops: pricing and contract review, revenue setup in Tabs, customer onboarding, and billing accuracy.
  • Partner with ops on vendor onboarding, SOW tracking, and contract-to-invoice workflows.
• Systems and process ownership
  • Serve as a functional owner on Rillet (ERP), Ramp (spend), and Tabs (billing/AR): configuration input, process design, testing, and documentation.
  • Build and document repeatable processes, controls, and close checklists.
  • Own the integration touchpoints across the finance stack and flag gaps or breakage.
• Core accounting
  • Own AR and AP end-to-end: billing, collections, cash application, vendor management, payment runs, and 1099 reporting.
  • Perform monthly close activities for assigned areas: journal entries, accruals, prepaid and deferred revenue schedules, and balance sheet reconciliations.
  • Prepare flux analysis and close commentary for the Controller.
  • Apply GAAP in areas including revenue recognition (ASC 606), software capitalization, and accrual accounting.
  • Prepare audit schedules and respond to external audit requests.

Qualifications

• 5 to 7+ years of progressive accounting experience; public accounting a plus.
• CPA strongly preferred (active, or sitting).
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools (in-app agents, LLMs, workflow automation) to improve accounting or finance processes.
• Strong technical GAAP knowledge: revenue recognition, accruals, deferrals, prepaids, and reconciliations.
• Hands-on experience owning a monthly close in a cloud ERP; Rillet, NetSuite, or Sage Intacct experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with modern spend and billing platforms (Ramp, Tabs, Bill.com, or similar) and comfort owning configuration, not just transactions.
• Track record of identifying and implementing process improvements and automation.
• Comfort partnering with non-finance teams (delivery, ops, commercial) and translating business questions into financial answers.
• Advanced Excel; comfort with large data sets, pivots, and model clean-up.
• Systems-forward and curious: brings ideas rather than waiting for direction.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• Pharma, SaaS, or PE-backed company experience a plus.

Benefits

• Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment.
• Competitive base salary ($95,000 - $115,000). Actual base pay will depend on varying circumstances, including the position, location, individual qualifications, market finances, and other operational business needs.
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits package.
• A collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Generous benefits package that includes:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Short Term Disability and the option to Buy-Up, Long Term Disability, Basic Term Life Insurance, Additional Term Life, Voluntary Insurance: Accident, Legal Plan, AD&D, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurance.
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off.
  • Flexible Spending Account & Dependent Flexible Spending Account.
  • 401k and Company Match.
  • Paid Company Holidays.
  • Employee Assistance Program for all employees.