Do you have a passion for excellence, great attention to detail, a desire to be innovative and creative, and a sense of stewardship and responsibility? Then you’re an ideal candidate to join our team. Please see current listings below.
Openings
Biospark is seeking a CFO or Controller to join its team!
You ideally have:
- A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field; CPA or equivalent credential preferred.
- 10+ years of law firm finance and accounting experience, with several years at the controller or higher level.
- Experience serving as a fractional CFO or Controller is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Great attention to detail.
- The ability to work well with a small, collaborative team.
You will be responsible for:
- Planning, developing, organizing, implementing, directing, and evaluating the firm’s fiscal function and performance.
- Serving as a strategic financial advisor to firm leadership.
- Developing and maintaining financial forecasts, budgets, and long-range planning models.
- Analyzing trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to forecast and maintain expenditure controls.
- Advising on pricing, profitability, hiring plans, and major business decisions.
- Developing and reviewing monthly financial statements and profitability reports.
- Coordinating with outside accountants, tax advisors, and other financial vendors as needed.
- Working collaboratively with Biospark team members and vendors.
Biospark’s team is mostly virtual and we will entertain resumes from any location in the US. We anticipate this role to require approximately 10–20 flexible working hours per month once onboarded.
Biospark is always looking for talented and skilled individuals who have law firm experience and want to take control of their own careers in any area of law firm practice and operation! Whether your skillset is in providing legal services, patent practice management, accounting, finance, or operations, we welcome the driven, dedicated, personable, and professional individual to Biospark, while offering true work-life balance. Help us create a team culture where everyone can thrive and you can have a hand in building not only the firm, but also your own career.
Curious? Please submit resume, cover letter (including a vision of your role and where you would like to see yourself career-wise in the next 3-5 years), salary preferences, and, for patent practitioners, desired billable hour targets and writing samples to sjm@biospark-ip.com.
Biospark’s mission is to provide high-quality patent legal services to our clients through excellent service, constant innovation, and a sense of stewardship. We are also highly attuned to our team’s professional and personal goals, and focus on creating a work environment that is flexible, collegial, and sustainable.
Biospark’s team is mostly virtual and we will entertain resumes from any location in the continental US. Except as noted above, Biospark will consider candidates for both part-time (a commitment of at least 25 hours a week) and full-time positions. We would anticipate travel for team meetings to occur twice a year.