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About the role
Reporting to the SVP, Finance, the Associate Director, Accounting will be ProFound’s first dedicated accounting leader. This person will help lead the company’s accounting operations, financial reporting and internal control environment, and will be responsible for accurate, timely U.S. GAAP reporting, a disciplined and scalable close, and the systems, policies and controls that support ProFound’s continued growth. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required
- CPA required
- 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including Big 4 or national firm public accounting. We care more about the depth of what you have owned than the number of years
- Biotechnology, pharmaceutical or life sciences experience strongly preferred, ideally in a venture-backed or growth-stage company
- Hands-on ownership of the monthly, quarterly and annual close and of GAAP financial statements
- Prior management experience leading accounting staff and external providers
More about this role
ProFound™ Therapeutics is a biotechnology company discovering novel proteins across the expanded human proteome to unlock first-in-class medicines and transformative drug targets. The company’s proprietary ProFoundry™ Platform integrates state-of-the-art protein detection, validation, and computational technologies to systematically identify and characterize previously inaccessible proteins and validate their therapeutic potential. This approach has generated a rapidly expanding portfolio of novel targets and drug discovery programs advancing toward the clinic, enabled by strategic collaborations with leading pharmaceutical partners. Together, these efforts support the development of breakthrough treatments across a broad range of disease areas.
The company is now poised to define the disease-relevant function of these proteins at scale using advanced proteomics technologies, high throughput experimental biology, and causal agentic AI, enabling rapid identification and characterization of the most promising protein drugs and drug targets.
Founded by Flagship Pioneering, ProFound works with pharmaceutical partners including Novartis, Pfizer and GSK, and with the Gates Foundation,...
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