# Associate Director/Director International Accounting and Government Compliance

**Company**: Flagship Pioneering
**Location**: Cambridge, MA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $148,000 - $236,500
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Biotechnology

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## Description

Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble capital to allow them to take courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.

The Associate Director / Director, International Accounting & Government Compliance will own accounting, compliance, and financial close for Flagship Pioneering’s international subsidiaries. You will partner closely with Flagship’s outsourced international service provider, Vistra, to ensure accurate and timely local and consolidated reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

- Establish the operating playbook for Flagship’s international operations, partnering cross-functionally with Legal, HR, Treasury, Tax, and Compensation on entity structure and setup

- Own accounting and administration for UK-based equity and compensation programs, partnering with the US Compensation team on program design, reporting, and compliance

- Define governance oversight at the Flagship level for international entities

- Own accounting and compliance for Flagship Pioneering’s international subsidiaries, including financial close, review of local reporting packages, journal entries, and intercompany eliminations

- Ensure accurate and timely recording of transactions in local statutory books and in the parent company’s consolidated financial statements

- Own the annual compliance and financial audit process, serving as primary point of contact for external auditors, local statutory advisors, and tax authorities

- Coordinate local statutory audits and tax return filings, and monitor regulatory and compliance requirements across jurisdictions to ensure timely filings

- Maintain internal controls and compliance with Flagship’s accounting policies across international entities

- Own the day-to-day relationship with Vistra, Flagship’s international outsourced support provider

- Partner with Legal and HR on entity setup, registrations, and compliance requirements as new international entities and jurisdictions come online

- Support international billing and cost allocation processes across Flagship entities

- Partner with Finance Operations team on international billing and allocations, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of intercompany charges

- Partner with heads of finance and operational teams at portfolio companies on matters related to Flagship’s government contracting entity

- Develop and maintain aggregated budget-to-actual reports for senior leadership

- Perform close activities for Flagship’s government contracting entity

- Partner with third-party advisors supporting the government contracting relationship, helping facilitate coordination between Flagship and the government

Qualifications Required:

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA preferred

- 8+ years of progressive accounting/finance experience, including multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction accounting

- Experience supporting international expansion and new entity setup

- Experience managing outsourced service providers (e.g., Vistra or similar) across multiple countries

- Strong knowledge of US GAAP, with working knowledge of IFRS and local statutory GAAP frameworks

- Experience managing statutory financial audits and tax compliance across international entities

- Experience with foreign currency accounting, consolidations, and intercompany transactions

- Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills; ability to work with both scientists and management

Preferred:

- Experience in life sciences, biotechnology, venture capital, or a similarly fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment

- Experience partnering with compensation teams on the design, reporting, and compliance of UK equity compensation programs (e.g., EMI option schemes)

- Experience with NetSuite or a similar ERP system

- MBA and/or additional international tax or treasury experience a plus

The salary range for this role is $148,000 - $236,500. Flagship Pioneering currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Accounting
- Finance
- US GAAP
- IFRS
- Foreign Currency Accounting
- Consolidations
- Intercompany Transactions
- Statutory Financial Audits
- Tax Compliance
- Vistra

### Nice to have
- Life Sciences
- Biotechnology
- Venture Capital
- UK Equity Compensation Programs
- NetSuite
- International Tax
- Treasury

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