What are the responsibilities and job description for the Corporate Controller position at Beacon Biosignals?
Beacon Biosignals is on a mission to revolutionize precision medicine for sleep and brain health. We are the leading at-home sleep and EEG platform supporting clinical sleep testing and development of novel therapeutics for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. Our FDA 510(k)-cleared at-home sleep testing devices integrate multi-channel cardiopulmonary and EEG signals into a single streamlined workflow powered by AI-enabled analytics. With a dedication to patient experience and scientific rigor, Beacon enables high-quality clinical diagnostics at scale and powers the development of novel neuromedicines. Beacon Biosignals is changing the way that patients are treated for any disorder that affects brain physiology.
Beacon Biosignals is seeking a finance team member to join us as a Corporate Controller. This role will be primarily responsible for overseeing and ensuring high-quality accounting practices, compliance and cash management strategies. We are a growth-stage Series B company that is rapidly scaling up, which will also create opportunities for candidates aiming to grow their financial strategy skills. This role will be mission critical to our future success and will be a partner to leaders across all parts of the business. Beacon values continuous improvement and automation, providing opportunities to implement or optimize cloud-based systems and best-in-class finance tools. This role is preferred to be based out of Beacon's Boston or NYC hub. This role reports directly to the CEO.
What Success Looks Like
At Beacon, we've found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example. As such, we're always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and - most of all - a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients. We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves higher impact.
Beacon Biosignals is seeking a finance team member to join us as a Corporate Controller. This role will be primarily responsible for overseeing and ensuring high-quality accounting practices, compliance and cash management strategies. We are a growth-stage Series B company that is rapidly scaling up, which will also create opportunities for candidates aiming to grow their financial strategy skills. This role will be mission critical to our future success and will be a partner to leaders across all parts of the business. Beacon values continuous improvement and automation, providing opportunities to implement or optimize cloud-based systems and best-in-class finance tools. This role is preferred to be based out of Beacon's Boston or NYC hub. This role reports directly to the CEO.
What Success Looks Like
- Oversee all accounting and payroll activities, including the month-end close process
- Support invoicing and AP activities
- Be the in house expert and point person on revenue recognition and operations
- Develop, monitor and maintain accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls to ensure conformance with GAAP, internal policies, external audits and other regulations
- Support financial performance monitoring activities (e.g., execution against forecast)
- Support the timely and accurate preparation of internal and external financial statements
- Produce KPI reporting and root cause trends in KPI and prepare insights for variance and key meetings
- Work with People Operations and leadership to support accurate and continuous headcount planning and projections
- Review quarterly and annual payroll tax returns (Form 941, 940, W-2s, W-3, state equivalents)
- Ensure that all federal, state, and local payroll taxes are calculated, remitted, and recorded accurately
- Create and maintain policies and procedures related to things like travel and other business expenses
- Be responsible for reviewing and approving all expenses
- Ensure accounting systems and processes are continually streamlined to achieve greater efficiencies and accuracy
- CPA
- 3 years of experience in public accounting
- 7 years of experience in Finance, ideally in a startup environment
- A degree in finance, statistics, economics, business or other related fields
- An interest in building out the infrastructure to sustain significant growth while maintaining tight financial controls
- A passion to help others make informed decisions driven by ROI and storytelling with numbers
- An ability to convey complex financial concepts to leaders across the organization
- The desire to drive continuous process improvements
- Outstanding Excel skills with the ability to manipulate large data sets
- Experience with Quickbooks
At Beacon, we've found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example. As such, we're always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and - most of all - a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients. We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves higher impact.