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Location

Palo Alto, CA | United States

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Job description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext™, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.

Job Description

The  AR Accounting Manager  will be an individual contributor role to a world-class finance team in a rapid growth and emerging environment. To be effective, you will need operational accounting experience and an eagerness to support all aspects of accounting. Strong communication, organizational, analytical and customer service skills are essential. This is a highly visible position requiring that confidentiality be maintained. 

 This role is immensely important, and you will serve as an integral member of our finance team. You will need to be an enthusiastic and hands-on individual who enjoys a fast-paced, high-volume environment. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

 Your activities will include:

• Perform day to day processing of accounts receivable transactions such as contract billings and credit memos.
• Enter Sales Orders in Order Management system and work with Alliance Management team for inventory pick release process.
• Process daily cash receipts including the credit card, ACH and wire payments as needed.
• Generate and send out invoices to customers.
• Follow up on, collect and allocate payments.
• Carry out billing, collections, and reporting activities according to specific deadlines.
• Assist in month-end, quarter-end and year-end reconciliations and closing processes. 
• Assist with interim and annual audits, and period-end management reporting. 
• Identify opportunities for process improvements or automation.
• Maintain files and documentation in accordance with company policy and accepted accounting practices.

Intrinsic motivation, curiosity, persistence, and collaboration will be critical to thrive in this role. You will partner and problem solve with colleagues across several business teams. Interest and passion for the company’s goal to improve patient care will serve you well in your work. 

You’ll have the opportunity to grow along with Guardant Health, as we grow in our current markets, develop new products, and expand into new product lines and new markets.

You bring excellent interpersonal skills to the role: communication, empathy and relationship building. In addition, you have strong written capabilities, analytic skills, and good attention to detail. Having fun at work is also important to us, and we like our colleagues to have passion, humor and to enjoy life.

Qualifications

In addition, you bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or related discipline required.
• Knowledge of GAAP and good understanding of accounting theory, DR/CR’s, and GL mapping.
• Advanced Excel skillset, Power Query and Key board shortcuts preferred.
• Familiar with RPA robotics a plus
• Minimum 4 years utilizing large ERP system required, Oracle Fusion a plus.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, public accounting, and healthcare industry experience a plus.
• You have a strong communication skills and knowledge of and experience addressing a broad range of accounting matters, ensuring it is processed in compliance with established SOX internal Key and Non-Key controls. You possess analytical skills needed to correctly grasp and communicate data and analyze and reconcile accounts; ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with the appropriate discretion; and handle multiple deadlines. 
• You are a self-starter, work well as a team player, but can work independently when appropriate.
• You possess the ability to analyze problems and actively strategize to resolve them, pay attention to detail, and have excellent organization and communication skills.
• You are results oriented. You can juggle multiple tasks, work cross-functionally and at all levels of the organization, whether internally or externally.
• You are flexible and comfortable in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and can prioritize focusing on the important, not just the urgent.

Work Environment:

Employees may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Much of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.

Additional Information

Hybrid Work Model : At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

For positions based in Palo Alto, CA or Redwood City, CA, the base salary range for this full-time position is $113,600 to $153,400. The range does not include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity.

Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.

Guardant Health is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our hiring processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need support, please reach out to  [email protected]

Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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