Life Sciences - Managing Director
Managing Directors at CFGI serve as trusted advisors to senior finance executives and provide leadership across client delivery, relationship development, business development, and team growth.
This Managing Director will help expand CFGI’s Finance & Accounting Advisory presence within the life sciences sector. The role will support biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, and other life sciences organizations as they navigate complex accounting, financial reporting, transactions, capital-markets activity, and operational challenges. Take ownership of your career at CFGI: Advise executives at emerging, growth-stage, commercial, and publicly traded life sciences companies. Lead complex accounting, financial reporting, transaction, and operational advisory engagements. Develop meaningful relationships across the life sciences business community. Help build and expand CFGI’s life sciences market presence. Lead and develop high-performing teams of accounting and advisory professionals. Collaborate with professionals across CFGI’s broader accounting, finance, transaction, technology, data, tax, valuation, and risk capabilities. Make a measurable impact on clients while contributing to the continued growth of CFGI.
What you might expect
Serve as a trusted advisor to CFOs, Chief Accounting Officers, Controllers, Audit Committees, Boards of Directors, and other senior stakeholders. Lead complex technical accounting, financial reporting, transaction support, SEC reporting, and operational accounting engagements. Advise life sciences companies across different stages of development, including venture-backed, clinical-stage, pre-commercial, commercial-stage, and publicly traded organizations. Help clients evaluate and resolve accounting matters involving: Research and development activities.Clinical trial and contract research organization accruals.Contract development and manufacturing arrangements.Collaboration, licensing, co-development, royalty, and milestone agreements.Revenue recognition and commercialization arrangements.Stock-based compensation and equity transactions.Debt, convertible instruments, warrants, and preferred equity.Business combinations, asset acquisitions, and in-process research and development.Consolidation, impairment, leases, and other complex U.S. GAAP matters. Lead SEC reporting and capital-markets engagements, including IPO readiness, public-company readiness, registration statements, reverse mergers, and other financing or transaction events. Support the preparation or review of Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-1, S-3, and other SEC filings. Lead audit readiness, financial-statement preparation, close optimization, internal-control development, and accounting-process improvement initiatives. Oversee engagement scope, staffing, budgets, timelines, project economics, quality, risk management, and client satisfaction. Review technical accounting memoranda, financial statements, SEC filings, executive presentations, and other client deliverables. Identify opportunities to expand existing relationships and introduce clients to additional CFGI capabilities. Originate new client relationships through networking, market activity, referrals, thought leadership, and other business-development efforts. Lead proposals, presentations, negotiations, and the development of client solutions. Recruit, mentor, develop, and retain Managers, Senior Managers, Directors, and other professionals. Contribute to internal training, methodology development, industry events, thought leadership, and other practice-building initiatives.
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What you must have
- 12+ years of experience in public accounting, accounting advisory, consulting, and/or corporate accounting and finance.
- Experience at a Big Four firm: Deloitte, EY, KPMG, or PwC.
- Meaningful accounting, finance, audit, or advisory experience serving life sciences companies, including biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, or comparable organizations.
- CPA license.
What sets you apart
- Experience serving as a senior advisor to CFOs, Chief Accounting Officers, Controllers, Audit Committees, Boards of Directors, and other executive stakeholders.
- Experience leading significant client portfolios, complex engagements, business units, industry verticals, or advisory service lines, including responsibility for delivery, staffing, quality, economics, and client relationships.
- Experience applying U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting requirements, and technical accounting guidance to complex accounting and financial-reporting matters.
- Experience generating new business through relationship development, networking, referrals, proposal leadership, client expansion, thought leadership, or other market-facing activities.
- Experience leading and developing senior professionals while contributing to recruiting, performance management, training, succession planning, or broader practice growth.
