Forus
Controller
New York office · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 46 days ago
AccountingQuickBooksSupply ChainERPCadenceAR/VRResearchLeadershipCommunicationGAAPNetSuite
About the role
- You will help architect the function itself: advancing our tools, designing the processes, and setting the standards that the team will inherit as we grow.
- We are a small and nimble finance team, and this role is for someone energized by doing the work and shaping how it gets done.
- This is a demanding role, with a high level of autonomy and responsibility.
Responsibilities
- We already support patients across more than 80% of ZIP codes and partner with 5 of the 10 largest biopharma companies in the world.
- We raised $160M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity.
- As our first dedicated accounting hire, you will own how Forus closes the books, reports financials, and builds the systems and controls that strengthen our financial foundation as we scale.
- The foundation you build is what lets Forus scale its provider network and commercial partnerships on numbers that leadership, auditors, and partners can trust.
- You will run the close, own the General Ledger, manage technical accounting, implement controls, and engage directly with auditors and external partners.
- Own core accounting operations end-to-end, including monthly close, GL, AP/AR, payroll, tax, and technical accounting, and set the cadence that delivers accurate, timely financials
- Design and document the controls, policies, and processes of a best-in-class accounting function, building infrastructure the team can inherit as we grow
- Partner with Strategic Finance to produce the monthly reporting package, board materials, and investor reporting
Requirements
- 5-10 years of accounting experience, including Big 4 or equivalent audit experience
- Demonstrated experience implementing modern financial systems and ERPs - QuickBooks, NetSuite, Ramp, Bill, Rippling, or similar - with informed opinions about what fits at our stage versus the next one
- Deep working knowledge of US GAAP, financial controls, and technical accounting
Nice to have
- Be rigorous, assume nothing.
- Break problems down and reason from the ground up.
- Expand the solution space.
- Be resourceful and audacious.
- Resist false constraints and push beyond the obvious before committing.
- Speak directly, invite critique, avoid equivocation.
- We want right answers, not comfortable ones.
- Raise the bar together.
Skills
- Work with Legal and Operations to structure contracts, pricing, and financial controls that hold up as the business scales
Compensation
- Drive technical accounting decisions across revenue recognition, stock-based compensation, multi-entity reporting, and capitalization policies
Benefits
- Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
- Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO) and 16 weeks of parental leave.
- 401K plan setup, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
- Bonus: Experience standing up an accounting function from scratch at an early-stage or hyper-scaling company
- Drive technical accounting decisions across revenue recognition, stock-based compensation, multi-entity reporting, and capitalization policies
Company info
- Forus is building an AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to accelerate new science to patients.
- Our platform automates the complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment, including insurance coverage, financial assistance, and supply chain navigation. We provide this support free to doctors and patients, helping them get life-changing medicine faster, cheaper, and easier. The resulting network enables biopharma companies to design better research, launch new drugs more effectively, and invest in harder-to-treat conditions.
- Forus has exceptional product-market fit and is growing rapidly through organic adoption:
- Accelerating scale: We already support patients across more than 80% of ZIP codes and partner with 5 of the 10 largest biopharma companies in the world.
- Our platform automates the complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment, including insurance coverage, financial assistance, and supply chain navigation.
- We provide this support free to doctors and patients, helping them get life-changing medicine faster, cheaper, and easier.
- The resulting network enables biopharma companies to design better research, launch new drugs more effectively, and invest in harder-to-treat conditions.
- AI-native, durable model: Our business becomes stronger as AI improves, as every new doctor, patient, and partner makes the network more valuable.
- Backing to build for the long term: We raised $160M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity.
- Our number one priority is scaling to market demand.
- We are looking for individuals who are high horsepower, high throughput, and hyper resourceful to help us increase capacity and grow.
- We move fast and need to move faster.
- If we succeed, science will be the only limit to medicine.
- All full-time roles are in person in New York.
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