Senior General Ledger Accountant

For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked to advance the discovery, development, and safe manufacture of new drug therapies, making a profound impact on global health. Our 20-year partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital takes this mission to the next level, supporting groundbreaking innovations that directly impact patient care. At Boston Children’s, their commitment to diversity drives the exceptional quality of care provided to patients from local communities to over 160 countries worldwide. This is your moment to become part of a family where unique talents and perspectives unite to change lives, including your own. Together, we’re shaping a healthier future through compassion, innovation, and opportunity.  

• Handling daily general ledger operations for multiple entities in both China and the US, including R&D cost accounting and project management, accounting for construction-in-progress & fixed assets, lease accounting, GAAP adjustments for China-US differences, and financial statement preparation .
• Planning, organizing, and executing fixed asset physical inventories and conducting the related accounting adjustments .
• Executing SOX audits and regularly updating SOX control points to ensure no major deficiencies are identified .
• Performing daily operations and process optimization within the SAP system (S/4HANA), and periodically updating the SAP operation manuals.
• Liaising with US counterparts regarding fixed assets, lease accounting, and other matters; submitting various required reports to the US headquarters on schedule.
• Coordinating with external accounting firms to complete the annual audit and tax audit, reviewing audit and tax audit reports, and reconciling and adjusting book-to-tax differences .
• Handling tax provisions and true-up procedures for deferred income taxes for the US headquarters .
• Performing other tasks assigned by management.

About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.

At Charles River  we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.

We’re committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life.  Based on your position these may include:  bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.