Senior Accountant, Atlanta, GA

Make your mark for patients

Are you a detail-driven accounting professional ready to elevate your career in a dynamic, fast-paced environment?

Join the UCB Finance team as a Senior Accountant, where you'll play a critical role in shaping the financial integrity of a forward-thinking organization. This isn't just about crunching numbers - it's about influencing strategic decisions, optimizing gross-to-net deductions, and ensuring compliance at every level. As a key finance team member, your insights and precision will help drive our business forward, support cross-functional initiatives, and maintain the accuracy that fuels our long-term success. If you're looking to grow your career in a collaborative, high-impact role, this is your opportunity.

This position is based in our Atlanta, GA headquarters.

About the Role
As a Senior Accountant and key member of the finance team, this role is responsible for supporting financial operations and ensuring accuracy and compliance with accounting standards and regulations. The position encompasses accounting, financial reporting, and review of financial data to support the company's financial health and strategic decision-making processes, including Gross to Net revenue adjustments support. It requires detailed analysis and reconciliation of financial data to ensure the integrity of the company's reporting and compliance framework.

What You'll Do
* Manage monthly and annual close activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, and gross-to-net revenue adjustments.
* Prepare and analyze financial statements and regulatory filings, ensuring compliance with IFRS, GAAP, and company policies.
* Abide by the internal controls policy of the company to ensure accurate reporting and safeguarding of assets.
* Collaborate cross-functionally to collect and validate data, provide financial insights, and ensure timely reporting.
* Perform detailed reconciliations of accounts and propose necessary adjustments
* Partner with external outsourcing providers to support close cycles, audit readiness, and process improvements.
* Drive system enhancements and process efficiencies while staying informed of evolving accounting standards and compliance requirements.

Who You'll Work With
You will collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders, including:
* Internal Finance teams and local business partners
* Outsourcing providers
* Global Internal Audit
* External auditors

Interested? Here's What We're Looking For
Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
• Minimum 2 years of experience with IFRS, GAAP, and financial reporting standards
• SAP proficiency

Preferred Qualifications
* CPA certification
* 3 years in a senior finance role within a multinational organization (pharma experience considered a plus)
* Deep understanding of internal controls, regulatory compliance, and financial reporting
* High attention to detail and strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities
* Effective communicator with the ability to work cross-functionally and influence without direct authority
* Experience working in shared services and outsourced environments
* Advanced data analysis skills and comfort handling large or incomplete data sets
* Proven ability to link operational events to financial outcomes and manage audit relationships independently
* Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative, self-motivated mindset

This position offers a reasonably anticipated base salary range of $68,000 to $89,300 per year. Actual compensation will depend on factors such as applicant's experience, knowledge, and skills.

Are you ready to 'go beyond' to create value and make your mark for patients? If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!

About us
UCB is a global biopharmaceutical company, focusing on neurology and immunology. We are around 8,500 people in all four corners of the globe, inspired by patients and driven by science.

Why work with us?
At UCB, we don't just complete tasks, we create value. We aren't afraid to push forward, collaborate, and innovate to make our mark for patients. We have a caring, supportive culture where everyone feels included, respected, and has equitable opportunities to do their best work. We 'go beyond' to create value for our patients, and always with a human focus, whether that's on our patients, our employees, or our planet. Working for us, you will discover a place where you can grow, and have the freedom to carve your own career path to achieve your full potential.

UCB is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us on US-Reasonable_Accommodation@ucb.com for application to US based roles. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments; we will not be able to support you through this channel.