Senior Accountant

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Cepheid, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. 

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

At Cepheid, we are passionate about improving health care through fast, accurate, molecular diagnostic systems and tests. As a member of our team, you’ll get to make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale, within an environment that fosters career growth and development. Our mission drives us to develop groundbreaking solutions for the world’s most complex health challenges. Together, we bring MORE change to the world.

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The Senior Accountant is responsible for overseeing the accounting, reporting, and governance of Cepheid's fixed asset portfolio. This role ensures accurate accounting for capital expenditures, fixed assets, and construction-in-progress projects while supporting month-end close, financial reporting, and compliance with U.S. GAAP and company policies. The Senior Accountant serves as a key business partner to FP&A, Procurement, Accounts Payable, and operational teams, leading fixed asset inventory programs, supporting audits and internal controls, and driving process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability across the organization.

This position reports to the Accounting Operations Manager and is part of the US Accounting Department and will be fully remote. 

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Own the accounting and reporting for fixed assets, including acquisitions, transfers, disposals, capitalization, depreciation, CIP monitoring, journal entries, account reconciliations, rollforwards, and month-end close activities. Ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and company accounting policies. including but not limited to Danaher’s required quarterly and annual Statutory reporting.
• Oversee Cepheid's fixed asset lifecycle, including the Corporate Physical Inventory program and RFID asset tracking system. Support internal and external audits, maintain effective internal controls, and ensure accurate asset records and compliance with capitalization policies.
• Partner with FP&A, Procurement, Accounts Payable, and operational teams to support capital investments and timely asset capitalization. Analyze financial results, provide management reporting, and lead process improvement and automation initiatives to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• CPA or CPA candidate preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of fixed asset accounting experience.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements: n/a

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Experience supporting large capital expenditure programs preferred.
• Experience with physical asset inventories and capitalization processes preferred.
• Experience with SAP Fixed Assets (FI-AA) strongly preferred.

Cepheid, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

At Cepheid we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Cepheid can provide.

The annual salary range for this role is $90,000 to $115,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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