Accounts Payable Specialist (remote)

Role Overview

The Accounts Payable (AP) Specialist will work closely with the Accounting Senior Manager and the Corporate Controller to manage the accounts payable process from start to finish, amongst other activities to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting. This includes working cross functionally with various people across the organization and externally.

Core Responsibilities

• Run the entire accounts payable process including vendor invoice intake, new vendor set up, manager approvals and payments
• Triage and resolve vendor inquiries and payment exception while maintaining vendor relationships
• Field questions from team members about vendor invoices and payments
• Work directly with accounting team to help coordinate and support the forecasting of cash outflow
• Review and process employee expense reports including corporate credit card transactions
• Work with accounting and finance on month/quarter/year end close process
• Other tasks as assigned
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Associate degree or higher in accounting
• Experience using Microsoft Suite products, specifically Excel
• Experience using NetSuite
• Strong understanding of the accounts payable cycle
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with strong organization, follow-though, and accuracy
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• General ledger accounts payable experience, ideally in multi-entity and international environments
• Experience with Concur
• Experience with working in an environment that is Sarbanes Oxley compliant
• Experience in the Biotech industry
  
  

Work Schedule and Location

This role is US based and remote. Travel to Savara's US HQ near Philadelphia is required up to quarterly. The ability to regularly attend meetings in US Eastern Time is required.

Savara Provides Comprehensive Benefits Including

• Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account for health care and dependent care expenses and Health Savings Account
• Paid time off and paid holidays, including Dec 24-Jan 1
• Paid parental leave
• 401(k) with highly competitive match
• Life, AD&D, STD and LTD insurance coverage
  
  

Savara’s compensation for this role will include an hourly rate, bonus, and equity. The hourly rate for this role is $32.70 to $42.30 per hour. This role is eligible for overtime.

About Savara

Savara is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on rare respiratory diseases. The company's lead program, molgramostim nebulizer solution, is in Phase 3 development for autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (aPAP). Savara's management team has extensive experience in rare respiratory diseases and pulmonary medicine, advancing product candidates to approval and commercialization.