Associate Director, Global Consolidations, Reporting & Systems

Guardant Health • Palo Alto, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Guardant Health is seeking a highly strategic and systems-oriented accounting leader to serve as the global control tower for financial consolidations, reporting, and close governance. This role is responsible for ensuring the integrity, timeliness, and scalability of global financial reporting, overseeing the end-to-end consolidation process, internal reporting, and the underlying system architecture supporting a publicly traded multinational organization. This position operates horizontally across the organization, partnering closely with Global Accounting Operations, regional accounting teams, FP&A, Tax, and IT to drive standardization, governance, and continuous optimization of financial processes and systems. The role plays a critical part in enhancing the quality, consistency, and transparency of global financial data to support executive decision-making. This role serves as the central point of ownership for the integrity of consolidated financial data from source systems through internal and external reporting and reports to the Senior Director, Assistant Controller & Treasurer within the Corporate Accounting organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required
• 8–12+ years of progressive experience in public accounting and/or publicly traded multinational companies.
• Deep expertise in financial consolidations, global close processes, and US GAAP reporting.
• Strong systems orientation, with experience in Oracle Fusion (intercompany and consolidation modules preferred).
• Experience supporting external audits and SOX compliance frameworks.
• Working knowledge of intercompany accounting and transfer pricing structures.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, global environment without direct authority.
• Exceptional analytical and communication skills, including experience presenting to senior leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to drive process improvement and systems optimization initiatives in a global environment.

Nice To Haves

• CPA strongly preferred.
• Experience in life sciences, biotech, or a highly regulated industry preferred.
• Experience with financial systems implementations or transformations preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end global consolidation process, including eliminations, foreign currency translation, ownership of consolidation adjustments, and consolidation entries.
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of consolidated financial statements in accordance with US GAAP.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for consolidated results during the close process.
• Govern and manage the global close calendar, driving accountability across stakeholders to ensure adherence to close timelines and deliverables.
• Identify bottlenecks, dependencies, and risks in the close process and drive resolution.
• Establish KPIs and metrics to continuously improve close efficiency and predictability.
• Lead and drive the development, preparation, and presentation of global variance analysis and internal reporting packages for senior leadership.
• Translate financial results into clear, actionable insights, highlighting key drivers and risks.
• Standardize reporting outputs across regions to ensure consistency and comparability.
• Oversee global intercompany processes, including reconciliation, settlement, and resolution of intercompany imbalances.
• Enforce governance over intercompany agreements and transaction flows.
• Partner with Tax to ensure adherence to transfer pricing policies and documentation requirements.
• Act as a central liaison for external auditors on consolidation and reporting matters.
• Support U.S. GAAP audit requirements and SOX compliance related to financial reporting.
• Oversee statutory audit and regulatory compliance coordination through regional teams and external providers.
• Serve as the business owner for consolidation and reporting functionality within Oracle Fusion.
• Lead and drive optimization of intercompany modules, subledgers, and consolidation processes.
• Validate system interfaces, troubleshoot consolidation issues, and manage enhancement requests.
• Partner with IT to implement scalable, automated solutions that reduce manual intervention.
• Lead and drive efforts to standardize accounting processes, policies, and reporting frameworks across global entities.
• Maintain and govern the global chart of accounts.
• Support accounting design and governance for new entity setups and international expansion.
• Lead and drive cross-functional initiatives related to financial systems, process improvements, and organizational scaling.
• Lead and drive continuous improvement in reporting quality, automation, and operational efficiency.
• Act as a key advisor to senior accounting leadership on global reporting strategy.

Benefits

• Guardant has defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time.
• flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior