Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elios AI is a national accounting and finance advisory practice serving life sciences companies as an alternative to the Big Four. The Partner, Technical Accounting Advisory will build and lead the Mid-Atlantic life sciences practice, advise senior finance leaders on complex accounting matters, originate business, oversee engagement economics, and develop future firm leaders.
Responsibilities
- Advise CFOs, Chief Accounting Officers, Controllers, audit committees, and boards at life sciences companies from Series B through post-IPO
- Set the technical position on the matters that define life sciences accounting: R&D, clinical trial and CRO accruals, CDMO arrangements, collaboration and licensing deals, royalty and milestone structures, IPRD, and revenue recognition at commercial launch
- Lead IPO readiness, reverse mergers, registration statements, and other capital-markets work, including the S-1, 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K deliverables that come with it
- Own engagement economics end to end: scope, staffing, budget, margin, quality, risk
- Originate new work. Partners here build pipeline through their own network, referrals from attorneys, auditors, and investors, and visible presence in the life sciences community
- Sponsor the hard technical calls, review the memoranda and filings that go in front of audit committees, and be the person the team escalates to
- Grow Directors and Senior Managers into the next generation of firm leadership, including recruiting, performance, and succession
- Bring in the firm's transaction, valuation, tax, technology, data, and risk teams when a client problem is bigger than accounting
Skills
- 18+ years across public accounting, accounting advisory, consulting, or senior corporate accounting
- Big Four background (Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PwC) or a comparable large advisory firm
- Substantive technical accounting services experience, meaning the FAAS, CMAAS, Accounting Advisory, or Capital Markets Advisory side of the house rather than pure audit
- A real life sciences track record: biotech, pharma, medical device, diagnostics, or closely comparable clients
- Active CPA license
- Command of U.S. GAAP and SEC reporting applied to genuinely ambiguous fact patterns
- A record of originating business: your relationships, your referrals, your proposals won
- Ownership of a client portfolio, industry vertical, or service line with accountability for delivery, staffing, quality, and economics
- Life sciences clients at multiple stages, from clinical-stage and pre-commercial through commercial and public
- Leadership on IPO readiness, public-company readiness, reverse-merger, financing, or acquisition engagements
- A prior seat as Chief Accounting Officer, Controller, or senior finance executive inside a life sciences company
- Standing relationships with life sciences investors, attorneys, auditors, and other referral sources in the Mid-Atlantic
- Working familiarity with Workiva or ActiveDisclosure
- Speaking, publishing, or training you've built in the life sciences accounting space
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
- Remote work (US)
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