What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Accountant position at Lila Sciences?
Your Impact at Lila
As a Senior Accountant at Lila, you’ll play a pivotal role in scaling and refining our financial operations during a period of rapid growth and innovation. You’ll own core accounting functions, help implement best-in-class processes, and ensure timely, accurate financial reporting across the Company. Partnering closely with Finance, Operations, and cross-functional teams, you’ll bring rigor, insight, and systems thinking to support strategic decisions and maintain financial excellence. This is a high-impact opportunity to build and scale the accounting foundation of a company redefining the future of science.
What You'll Be Building
Lila Sciences is the world’s first scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab for life, chemistry, and materials science. We are pioneering a new age of boundless discovery by building the capabilities to apply AI to every aspect of the scientific method. We are introducing scientific superintelligence to solve humankind's greatest challenges, enabling scientists to bring forth solutions in human health, climate, and sustainability at a pace and scale never experienced before. Learn more about this mission at www.lila.ai
If this sounds like an environment you’d love to work in, even if you only have some of the experience listed below, we encourage you to apply.
Compensation
We expect the base salary for this role to fall between $88,000-$126,000 USD per year, along with bonus potential and generous early equity. The final offer will reflect your unique background, expertise, and impact.
We’re All In
Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
A Note to Agencies
Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.
As a Senior Accountant at Lila, you’ll play a pivotal role in scaling and refining our financial operations during a period of rapid growth and innovation. You’ll own core accounting functions, help implement best-in-class processes, and ensure timely, accurate financial reporting across the Company. Partnering closely with Finance, Operations, and cross-functional teams, you’ll bring rigor, insight, and systems thinking to support strategic decisions and maintain financial excellence. This is a high-impact opportunity to build and scale the accounting foundation of a company redefining the future of science.
What You'll Be Building
- Support the month-end close process, including journal entries, reconciliations, and reporting for all major financial statement line items
- Ensure accurate application of US GAAP (e.g., ASC 606, ASC 842), especially around fixed assets, leases, and expenses
- Partner with FP&A on budget vs. actuals and variance analysis
- Support audits and compliance efforts, including preparation of schedules and coordination with external auditors
- Drive improvements in accounting systems and processes (e.g., ERP optimization, automation of reconciliations)
- CPA license
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 4 years of accounting experience, with at least 2 years in public accounting or a high-growth tech/life sciences company
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP
- Experience with accounting systems (e.g., NetSuite or similar ERP)
- Advanced Excel skills and a high degree of attention to detail
- Experience with system implementations or integrations (e.g., NetSuite modules, LeaseQuery, Ramp, Bill.com, etc.)
- Familiarity with internal controls and SOX compliance
- Exposure to FP&A or cross-functional business partnering
- Passion for Lila’s mission and eagerness to support science at the cutting edge
Lila Sciences is the world’s first scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab for life, chemistry, and materials science. We are pioneering a new age of boundless discovery by building the capabilities to apply AI to every aspect of the scientific method. We are introducing scientific superintelligence to solve humankind's greatest challenges, enabling scientists to bring forth solutions in human health, climate, and sustainability at a pace and scale never experienced before. Learn more about this mission at www.lila.ai
If this sounds like an environment you’d love to work in, even if you only have some of the experience listed below, we encourage you to apply.
Compensation
We expect the base salary for this role to fall between $88,000-$126,000 USD per year, along with bonus potential and generous early equity. The final offer will reflect your unique background, expertise, and impact.
We’re All In
Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
A Note to Agencies
Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.
Salary : $88,000 - $126,000
