Controller

Job Description

About Drug Hunter

Drug Hunter is a B2B subscription scientific intelligence platform for biotech and pharmaceutical R&D scientists that empowers them to discover the medicines of the future. We serve many of the world’s leading biotech and pharmaceutical organizations, including Dow 30 and S&P 500 companies.

Role Summary

Drug Hunter is seeking a hands-on Controller to own the integrity, accuracy, and scalability of our accounting and financial operations and lead the accounting function for the company. This person will be responsible for the close, financial reporting, billing and collections, revenue recognition, cash management, compliance, systems and controls, and team management.

The Controller will be a close partner to company leadership and will help ensure that management, the Board, investors, and financial partners can rely on timely and accurate financial information.

Key Responsibilities

Accounting and Financial Reporting

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, allocations, and review of the general ledger.
• Produce accurate and timely GAAP financial statements and management reporting, with clear explanations of material variances.
• Prepare recurring financial reporting packages for executives, the Board, investors, lenders, and other financial stakeholders.
• Produce monthly budget-to-actual reporting and work with department leaders to investigate material variances, improve expense visibility, and maintain accurate forecasts.
• Maintain the chart of accounts, accounting policies, close calendar, supporting schedules, and financial documentation.
• Ensure the completeness and accuracy of balance-sheet reconciliations and resolve issues promptly.
• Coordinate annual tax filings, financial reviews or audits, and other work performed by external accounting and tax advisors.

Revenue, Billing, and Accounts Receivable

• Own accounting for subscription contracts in accordance with ASC 606, including contract review, revenue schedules, deferred revenue, contract modifications, and supporting documentation.
• Oversee customer invoicing, accounts receivable, collections, cash application, and revenue-related reconciliations.
• Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and Operations to ensure that bookings, contracts, billing, renewals, and revenue reporting align.
• Establish reliable reporting for ARR, bookings, billings, revenue, deferred revenue, receivables, and collections.

Cash, Payables, Payroll, and Compliance

• Oversee accounts payable, expense management, payroll accounting, banking activity, and cash reconciliations.
• Support cash forecasting, liquidity management, and compliance with banking and debt requirements.
• Maintain appropriate entity, tax, sales-tax, payroll, and regulatory compliance in partnership with outside specialists.
• Develop and maintain controls over payments, vendor changes, bank access, customer refunds, and other sensitive transactions.

Systems, Controls, and Operational Resilience

• Own the accounting systems environment and the integrity of data flowing among the general ledger, billing and revenue-recognition platform (Maxio), CRM (Hubspot), payroll, expense, banking, and reporting systems.
• Maintain a current inventory of finance systems, administrators, access rights, integrations, and recurring workflows.
• Ensure appropriate segregation of duties, approval levels, backup administrators, access reviews, and business-continuity procedures.
• Document core processes so that finance operations remain reliable through employee absences and organizational transitions.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual work while maintaining strong review and control procedures.
• Protect confidential financial, employee, customer, and banking information.

Leadership and Business Partnership

• Serve as the primary owner of accounting accuracy and communicate risks, issues, and decisions clearly to leadership.
• Partner on budgets, forecasts, Board reporting, lender diligence, investor requests, insurance renewals, and other corporate initiatives.
• Recruit, manage and develop internal accounting staff and external bookkeeping, accounting, tax, and audit partners.
• Build a culture of accountability, responsiveness, sound judgment, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field; active CPA strongly preferred.
• Approximately 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including meaningful ownership of the close and financial reporting.
• Experience as a Controller, Assistant Controller, or senior accounting leader in a growing software, SaaS, data, subscription, or technology-enabled business.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and demonstrated experience with ASC 606 subscription revenue recognition.
• Direct experience with billing, accounts receivable, deferred revenue, accounts payable, payroll accounting, cash management, and external audits or reviews.
• Strong systems aptitude and experience administering or improving an ERP or general ledger, billing or revenue platform, and connected finance systems.
• Demonstrated ability to design practical internal controls, document processes, and reduce key-person dependencies.
• Experience supporting lender, investor, Board, or transaction diligence is preferred.
• Excellent judgment, attention to detail, organization, and written and verbal communication.
• Willingness to work hands-on while also improving the broader operating model.

Benefits

Benefits

Drug Hunter provides industry-leading benefits, including the following:

• Competitive salary, variable compensation, and equity
• Broad range of medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees and their dependents, including generous coverage for a platinum PPO healthcare plan
• Short-term disability and long-term disability insurance
• Cancer and critical illness coverage
• Up to 14 weeks paid parental leave (after 1 yr tenure) and childcare FSA plan
• 401(k) + employer match
• Home office set up stipend for fully remote employees
• Learning and development support
• Generous and flexible vacation and leave policies