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Senior Accountant

Catalent
Chelsea, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 9/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/7/2026
Position Summary:


  • Full time salaried position
  • Onsite based out of our Chelsea, MA location


The Senior Accountant is responsible for working closely with the Finance team to ensure a smooth, timely month-end close process. This individual provides assistance with SOX compliance and is involved in the annual budgeting process.

The Boston-area facility is Catalent’s global Center of Excellence for spray dry dispersion and Dry Powder Inhaler (DPI) capsule manufacture and packaging. The site features inhaled powder spray drying, as well as multiple commercial scale lines for capsule filling and blister packaging, with potent filling capacity for up to 100 million capsules annually.

The Role:


  • Performs and assists with month-end and quarter-end closing accounting tasks including preparation/input of journal entries ensuring compliance with US GAAP
  • Ensures that reconciliations and supporting schedules and analysis are completed on a timely basis and in accordance with the monthly closing schedule
  • Prepares and maintains month-end closing shared folders
  • Preparation and assistance with month-end analytical review of actuals versus budget/forecast
  • Assist with budgeting and forecasting
  • Provides assistance with SOX compliance by ensuring internal controls are adhered to
  • Provides assistance to Sr. Manager Financial Operations and Accounting on quarter-end inventory close and various analyses
  • Other duties as assigned


The Candidate:


  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, required
  • Minimum four years of experience and with solid understanding of GAAP, required
  • Experience in public accounting, preferred
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, proficient in MS Office Suite, and experience with general ledger systems
  • Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk regularly and occasionally lift 0-15 pounds


The anticipated salary range for this position in Massachusetts is $89,000 - $122,000, plus bonus, when eligible. The final salary offered to a successful candidate may vary, and will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: the type and length of experience within the job, type and length of experience within the industry, skillset, education, business needs, etc. Catalent is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states.

Why You Should Join Catalent:


  • Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process
  • 152 hours of PTO 8 paid holidays
  • Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&I
  • Generous 401K match
  • Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • WellHub - program to promote overall physical wellness


Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Catalent Pharma Solutions (Catalent) is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Catalent employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Catalent. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.

Important Security Notice to U.S. Job Seekers:

Catalent NEVER asks candidates to provide any type of payment, bank details, photocopies of identification, social security number or other highly sensitive personal information during the offer process, and we NEVER do so via email or social media. If you receive any such request, DO NOT respond— it is a fraudulent request. Please forward such requests to spam@catalent.com for us to investigate with local authorities.

California Job Seekers can find our California Job Applicant Notice HERE.

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