Expedition Medicines: Vice President, Finance

About the role

Expedition Medicines is seeking a hands-on Vice President of Finance with deep experience in private biotech companies running both pre-clinical and clinical programs. The ideal candidate brings strong finance expertise, technical and operational accounting depth, proven leadership, and a demonstrated ability to build and deploy strategic finance processes at scale. This individual must be comfortable working independently in a resource-constrained environment while overseeing a lean finance and accounting function and also providing strategic financial guidance to the executive team. The Vice President of Finance will oversee all aspects of accounting, financial operations, and compliance while contributing meaningfully to corporate strategy and long-term planning. This is a key leadership role and is the primary steward of the company's financial strategy, discipline, systems, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage all accounting operations, financial reporting, and internal controls; ensure compliance with GAAP and applicable regulations, manage monthly, quarterly and annual close processes and tax and regulatory filings; initiate/lead financial statement audits
• Manage external vendors - auditors, accounting consultants, tax advisors, and payroll providers - holding them to scope, budget, and timeline
• Deploy AI accelerators across finance operations to improve speed, accuracy, and analytical capacity

Requirements

• Essential
• 15+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, including senior leadership roles
• Proven track record in a private life sciences/biotech company through growth and successful inflection points
• Strong understanding of GAAP and biotech-specific accounting issues, including R&D accruals, intercompany transactions, and collaboration accounting
• Experience in leading financial reporting , budgeting and long-range planning processes
• Experience and comfort as an individual contributor as well as leading small teams, including external vendors
• Demonstrated ability to work independently in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Desirable
• CPA or MBA strongly preferred
• Experience supporting fundraising activities (venture capital, crossover, IPO readiness)
• Understanding of and interest in utilizing AI and automation for finance
• Familiarity with biopharma collaboration accounting and reporting as well as cost modeling for R&D programs
• Values and Behaviors:
• Encourage respectful disagreement and cultivate open-minded, ego-free interactions to continuously push each other towards excellence
• Seek out diverse perspectives; practice active listening and genuine curiosity to ensure all contributions are valued, regardless of source
• Recognize the impact of your behavior, language, and attitudes; strive for balanced, meaningful exchanges that build mutual growth and understanding in all interactions
• Use a company-first mindset to guide decision-making; prioritize team over individual success
• Take calculated risks and challenge convention in the quest for exceptional outcomes
• LOCATION: Cambridge, MA
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Benefits

Additional Information

COMPANY DESCRIPTION Expedition Medicines is a privately held, early-stage biotechnology company pioneering the emerging field of Protein Editing. At Expedition Medicines we create small molecules that edit protein structure and function to unlock presently undruggable targets and a broad array of therapeutic modalities. Our platform integrates novel small molecule chemistry and chemoproteomic discovery technologies with Machine Learning (ML) to enable generative design. Expedition Medicines is backed by Flagship Pioneering, bringing their courage, vision, and resources to guide Expedition Medicines from platform validation to patient impact. We are seeking collaborative, relentless problem solvers that share our passion for impact to join us!

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