Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

Cambridge, MA USA

As a Senior Accountant at Lila, you'll play a pivotal role in scaling and refining our financial operations during a period of rapid growth and innovation. You'll own core accounting functions, help implement best-in-class processes, and ensure timely, accurate financial reporting across the company. Partnering closely with Finance, Operations, and cross-functional teams, you'll bring rigor, insight, and systems thinking to support strategic decisions and maintain financial excellence. This is a high-impact opportunity to build and scale the accounting foundation of a company redefining the future of science.

What You'll Be Building

• Support the month-end close process, including preparing journal entries, reconciliations, and reporting
• Ensure accurate application of US GAAP, especially around fixed assets and leases
• Partner with lab ops, procurement, and other departments on fixed asset and lease workflows, tracking, and accounting
• Support audits and compliance efforts, including preparation of schedules and coordination with external auditors
• Drive improvements in accounting systems and processes (e.g., ERP optimization, automation of reconciliations)

What You'll Need To Succeed

• CPA license
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• 4+ years of accounting experience, with at least 2 years in public accounting or a high-growth tech/life sciences company
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP
• Experience with accounting systems (e.g., NetSuite or similar ERP)
• Advanced Excel skills and a high degree of attention to detail

Bonus Points For

• Experience with Fixed Asset Accounting, Lease Accounting (ASC 842)
• Familiarity with internal controls and SOX compliance
• Exposure to FP&A or cross-functional business partnering
• Passion for Lila's mission and eagerness to support science at the cutting edge

Compensation We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact. U.S. Benefits. Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous company wide holidays; paid parental leave; an educational assistance program; commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees; and a company subsidized lunch program. International Benefits. Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market.

Expected Base Salary Range

$88,000 - $126,000 USD

About LILA

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.

LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at

Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.

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