Accountant, International Finance (contractor)

How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

Our company has attracted some of the most brilliant and accomplished talents in the industry and is now looking for an entrepreneurial, strategic, and well-rounded Junior Accountant, International Finance who excels when opportunity knocks.

This exciting opportunity for an experienced finance professional provides an opening to help build the International infrastructure which drives value creation and pave the way for continuous personal development. This individual will bring their unique perspective coupled with intelligence, an appreciation for the business, and a natural passion for rapid, yet informed change to maximize our collective success.

The successful candidate will partner day-to-day with our external service providers, the US Finance team, and internal stakeholders on all the technical finance topics. This role is within the Finance Organization as we embark on the next chapter of the Blueprint Medicines’ story.

They will start ASAP as a contractor with a 1-year contract, with the possibility for contract extension.   Reporting into Senior Manager, International Finance and based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the successful candidate should have strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills and be able to support financial processes effectively across the International Region

What will you do?

Technical Finance - Controlling/Accounting/Reporting/Compliance

• Support International Technical Finance Operations and work closely with Finance team, US team and external service providers to support the USGAAP accounting and statutory reporting.
• Support month-end close process and activities for the International Region by preparing and recording US GAAP accounts' journal entries and performing account reconciliations on time and in full.
• Focus on compliance activities such as VAT reconciliations and reporting across the international region (NL, DE, UK, ES, IT, FR, CH).
• Support the Accounts Payable process by reconciliation of balances, follow up on invoice resolution and proactively identify and resolve discrepancies, working together with the budget owners and the AP team in the US
• Provide essential support during internal and external financial audits for the International Region, including SOX controls for the legal entities in Europe, as well as all audit cycles (US GAAP and Statutory accounts)
• Serve as the secondary contact for local accounting offices, coordinating Local Statutory activities, addressing daily matters related to accounting, financial reporting, and invoicing.
• Support with Cash Management with bank reconciliations to validate the accuracy of financial transactions.
• Manage the reconciliation and recording of monthly accruals to maintain accurate financial records.
• Support of the preparation, reconciliation, and booking of payroll-related journal entries, payroll cash transactions
• Prepare and reconcile management accounting packs, leveraging Blackline (internal SOX control software), for the International region to support decision-making processes.
• Help with issue resolutions and process improvements.  Ad hoc requests based on needs.

What minimum qualifications do we require? 

• Master’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field.
• A European CPA would be a plus.
• 1-3 years of experience in Accounting/Finance/Controlling, ideally with experience in audit or pharma

What additional qualifications will make you a stronger candidate?

• Strong organizational and multitasking skills. Professionalism, and high level of discretion is required
• Strong finance background including US GAAP + Local GAAP and experience in Internal controls / SOX environment
• Ability and desire to work with close supervision and as a team member
• Demonstrated proactive and solutions-oriented approach toward business problems and process improvements
• Well-organized, flexible and ability to handle different priorities at a time – result driven and strategic thinker
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Pragmatic, detail-oriented and able to perform in a high-pressure environment. Ability to meet deadlines, curious with a can-do attitude. Attention to detail and quality focused
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office is a must and Oracle will be a plus.
• English is a must, another EU language would be a plus
• Commitment to our Core Values: Patients First, Thoughtfulness, Urgency, Trust, Optimism
• Strong business acumen coupled with emotional intelligence
• Ability to develop in a rapid growth, fast-paced global organization where agility was demanded, fresh solutions were embraced, and a growth mindset was pervasive.

Why Blueprint?

At Blueprint Medicines, we achieve impactful results because of our global crew of compassionate innovators – the Blue Crew. Through authentic relationships and our collective entrepreneurial spirit and action, we are each empowered to take ownership and execute with strategic prioritization. We put trust in our people to break through norms and conventions using their individual strengths and insights, which drives our success.

This is the place where the extraordinary becomes reality, and you could be part of it.

Patients are waiting. Are you ready to make the leap?

Blueprint Medicines is a fully integrated, commercial-stage, global biopharmaceutical company that invents life-changing medicines in two core, strategic areas of allergy/inflammation and oncology/hematology. We pursue discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies that potently and selectively target known drivers of disease, with focused investment in therapeutic areas where we can leverage our core expertise and business infrastructure to bring scale to our science. We are bringing an approved medicine to people living with systemic mastocytosis (SM) in the U.S. and Europe. Additionally, we have a pipeline of research and development programs that range from early science to advanced clinical trials in mast cell-mediated diseases, including SM and chronic urticaria, breast cancer, and other solid tumors vulnerable to CDK2 inhibition.

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