Senior Manager, Cost Accounting

About   Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.   Iovance Biotherapeutics , Inc.  is the global leader in innovating, developing, and delivering tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) cell therapies for patients with solid tumors. Amtagvi® (lifileucel) is the first FDA-approved, one-time treatment for previously treated advanced melanoma, now approved in three global markets and available at more than 95 authorized treatment centers. The  Iovance TIL platform  spans registrational trials and next-generation programs in additional solid tumors, including gene-edited and IL-12 tethered TIL therapies, next-generation IL-2, and precision immuno-oncology approaches. As the first and only company to take TIL therapy from concept to a broadly accessible commercial treatment, Iovance operates as an end-to-end cell therapy company, anchored by fully owned, centralized U.S.-based manufacturing that is scaled to serve thousands of cancer patients worldwide each year. For more information, please visit  www.iovance.com . Amtagvi® and its accompanying design marks, Proleukin ® , Iovance ® , and IovanceCares™ are trademarks and registered trademarks of Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Information on Iovance’s broad, industry-leading patent portfolio is available on the Intellectual Property page on  www.iovance.com . Overview This position is integral to the continued and planned future growth of Iovance Biotherapeutics’ Cell Therapy Manufacturing Center and capabilities. The Senior Manager, Cost Accounting is responsible for overseeing cost accounting (including cost of goods sold, bill of materials and inventory costing. The Senior Manager provides reporting and analysis to the corporate finance and accounting team, including the SVP, Finance and CFO, to support the strategic and operational planning. The Senior manager works with Manufacturing Finance, Corporate Accounting and Corporate FP&A teams to support the monthly close processes and quarterly external financial reporting as well as to assure strong linkage of data reported and budgeted results. Essential Functions and Responsibilities • Oversee monthly/quarterly close process for general ledger accounts. • Prepare & analyze financial statements for the Company • Ownership of overhead cost pool accumulation and allocation/absorption, as well as analysis of related costs and results. • Ensure and coordinate timely monthly and quarterly cost accounting close activities for inventory and cost of sales, including reconciliations and review of reconciliations where appropriate, including generating journal entries where appropriate. • Oversee quarterly and year-end physical inventory process with the operations team. • Coordinate calculation and recording of appropriate inventory reserves working with operations team. • Collaborate with Internal Audit with the ownership and execution of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for inventory and cost of sales, as well as ongoing reviews for potential enhancements and improvements. • Support the forecast and budget process with timely inputs related to product volumes, purchases, expected overhead pool, costs per unit and cost of sales. • Analysis of manufacturing organization spending, as well as support of the forecast process, and support of the FP&A organization in the preparation of materials for the monthly and quarterly financial review meetings. • Prepare monthly and quarterly PBC schedules to support the audit and interim reviews, including working with audit firm on deliverables and related questions • Proactively identify and analyze opportunities to improve results and facility processes. • Support any internal and external financia