Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Danforth Advisors is a finance and accounting consultancy serving life-sciences companies from early-stage start-ups through IPO and beyond. The Consultant will support client finance functions by managing transactional accounting, reconciliations, accounts payable and receivable, accruals, and month-end close activities while developing toward more advisory-focused responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Track and record all cash moving in and out of client bank accounts — invoices, deposits, and disbursements
- Own accounts payable and accounts receivable: record purchase and receivable invoices, and ensure they're accurately entered and paid on time
- Perform monthly bank reconciliations, comparing the general ledger cash account to bank statements
- Maintain and reconcile balance-sheet asset and liability accounts each month, including fixed assets, prepaids, and cash
- Track and record prepaid expenses and accruals, ensuring both are properly recognized and relieved over time
- Work within common ERP systems such as QuickBooks, NetSuite, Great Plains, or Oracle
- Partner with Managers and Directors on client engagements, and build toward more advisory-facing responsibility over time
Skills
- A foundation at a Big 4 firm (Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG) or a comparable national / regional CPA firm (Grant Thornton, BDO, RSM) — recent Big 4 audit experience is welcome, as is time at a Big-4-adjacent advisory firm (e.g. CFGI, Siegfried, William Marston, Connor Group, Citrin Cooperman)
- 1–5 years of relevant accounting experience
- CPA-track (license not required for this role)
- Comfort with — or strong interest in — working across multiple clients rather than a single company
- A collaborative, team-first working style, and an eagerness to be mentored as you grow
- Openness to working within standardized, AI-enabled tools and processes
- An interest in life sciences and wanting your work to support that mission
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- A defined growth path — advancement is a real, supported option, not just a talking point
- A team-based, mentorship-driven model rather than being handed a client and left on your own
- The chance to build a career across a portfolio of life-sciences clients, rather than staying siloed at one company
- A salaried role with the stability of a firm behind you
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