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# Corporate Controller at Beacon Biosignals

- **Company:** Beacon Biosignals
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beaconbiosignals/jobs/4415039009

## Job description

Beacon Biosignals is transforming precision medicine for the brain, from clinical development to clinical care. For Life Sciences partners, we offer the leading at-home EEG platform for clinical development of novel therapeutics for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. Our Diagnostics business is building the most comprehensive at-home platform for precision diagnostics, combining EEG and cardiopulmonary signals to deliver reimbursable assessments for sleep and central nervous system disorders. Together, we're changing the way patients are diagnosed and treated for any disorder that affects brain physiology.

Beacon Biosignals is seeking a finance team member to join us as a Corporate Controller. This role will be primarily responsible for overseeing and ensuring high-quality accounting practices, compliance and cash management strategies. We are a growth-stage Series B company that is rapidly scaling up, which will also create opportunities for candidates aiming to grow their financial strategy skills. This role will be mission critical to our future success and will be a partner to leaders across all parts of the business. Beacon values continuous improvement and automation, providing opportunities to implement or optimize cloud-based systems and best-in-class finance tools.

This role is preferred to be based out of Beacon's Boston or NYC hub. This role reports directly to the CEO.

What success looks like:

- Oversee all accounting and payroll activities, including the month-end close process
- Support invoicing and AP activities
- Be the in house expert and point person on revenue recognition and operations
- Develop, monitor and maintain accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls to ensure conformance with GAAP, internal policies, external audits and other regulations
- Support financial performance monitoring activities (e.g., execution against forecast)
- Support the timely and accurate preparation of internal and external financial statements
- Produce KPI reporting and root cause trends in KPI and prepare insights for variance and key meetings
- Work with People Operations and leadership to support accurate and continuous headcount planning and projections
- Review quarterly and annual payroll tax returns (Form 941, 940, W-2s, W-3, state equivalents)
- Ensure that all federal, state, and local payroll taxes are calculated, remitted, and recorded accurately
- Create and maintain policies and procedures related to things like travel and other business expenses
- Be responsible for reviewing and approving all expenses
- Ensure accounting systems and processes are continually streamlined to achieve greater efficiencies and accuracy

What you will bring:

- CPA
- 3 + years of experience in public accounting
- 7+ years of experience in Finance, ideally in a startup environment
- A degree in finance, statistics, economics, business or other related fields
- An interest in building out the infrastructure to sustain significant growth while maintaining tight financial controls
- A passion to help others make informed decisions driven by ROI and storytelling with numbers
- An ability to convey complex financial concepts to leaders across the organization
- The desire to drive continuous process improvements
- Outstanding Excel skills with the ability to manipulate large data sets
- Experience with Quickbooks

The base salary range for this role is determined based on past experience, specific skills, and qualifications. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes an incentive compensation plan, equity, PTO, and other benefits.

At Beacon, we've found that cultural and scientific impact is driven most by those that lead by example. As such, we're always seeking new contributors whose work demonstrates an avid curiosity, a bias towards simplicity, an eye for composability, a self-service mindset, and - most of all - a deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients. We believe a diverse team builds more robust systems and achieves higher impact.

## About Beacon Biosignals

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Beacon Biosignals is an AI-driven precision medicine platform that collects, integrates, and analyzes EEG data to accelerate drug development and power at-home sleep diagnostics.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – over $97 M raised as of April 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA (with additional offices in Paris, New York, Cleveland, and remote)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Jacob Donoghue, MD, PhD (CTO & Co‑Founder); additional co‑founders not fully disclosed in available sources.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Neuroscience / Digital Health / AI‑powered diagnostics and clinical‑trial services.
- **Target customers**: Biopharmaceutical companies (B2B) for clinical‑trial support; sleep physicians, neurologists, and primary‑care providers for at‑home sleep testing (B2B diagnostics).
- **Mission**: “To unlock the power of brain data to transform how we diagnose, treat, and understand neurological and psychiatric conditions.”

## Products & Services
- **Waveband EEG Headband**: FDA 510(k)‑cleared, wireless headband (formerly Dreem 3S) that collects clinical‑grade sleep‑staging data. Designed for at‑home use in both clinical trials and clinical practice. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Beacon Datastore**: Cloud‑based storage and analysis platform for biosignal data. Supports version‑controlled, reproducible analyses and integrates with the rest of Beacon’s products. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Clinical Study Operations**: End‑to‑end support for biopharma trials, including device deployment, site training, compliance monitoring, and data‑quality review. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Scientific Services**: Expert analysis and interpretation of EEG data – spanning biomarker discovery, trial‑design advice, translational insights, and comprehensive reporting. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
- **Beacon HQ**: Centralized portal for trial management, dataset exploration, cohort filtering, and site‑performance tracking. [beacon.bio/products-services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding > $97 M (Series B upsized, announced April 6, 2026). The platform has analyzed **2 M+ hours of EEG** and completed **500 K+ home sleep tests** across **40+ clinical trials**. [beacon.bio](https://beacon.bio/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors not named in available sources; **Harmony Biosciences** announced as a partner (Dec 2025). [beacon.bio](https://beacon.bio/)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Selected as one of **Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026**. [beacon.bio](https://beacon.bio/)
  - Series B upsized to over $97 M in April 2026.
  - Expanding at‑home sleep testing (500 K+ tests completed) and building the world’s largest clinically validated neurophysiology dataset.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest clinically validated neurophysiology dataset** (2 M+ hours of analyzed EEG), providing depth and scale for biomarker discovery and AI model training.
- **End‑to‑end platform** covering the full drug‑development lifecycle – from an FDA‑cleared wearable device to cloud storage, analytics, and clinical‑trial services.
- **AI‑powered algorithms** for sleep staging, epileptiform characterization, and standardized spectral analysis, cleared under FDA 510(k).
- **Full regulatory and quality infrastructure** (SOC 2 Type II, US DPF/GDPR compliant, GCP‑backed security) that reduces risk for pharma partners.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling at‑home diagnostics**: Increasing the reach of the Waveband headband and home sleep testing services to neurologists, sleep physicians, and primary‑care settings.
- **Deepening biopharma partnerships**: Expanding clinical‑trial support from Phase 1 through Phase 4 and into post‑market studies.
- **Building the largest neurodiagnostic dataset**: Continuing to grow the Beacon Datastore to enable more precise, personalized therapies for brain‑health conditions.
- **Advancing AI‑driven neurotechnology**: Leveraging machine learning to discover novel biomarkers and develop objective clinical endpoints (e.g., hypersomnia partnership with Harmony Biosciences).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven culture**: “We’re working to change how brain health is measured, understood, and treated.” Employees see direct impact on getting treatments to patients faster. [beacon.bio/careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
- **Flexible work**: Headquarters in Boston (with offices in Paris, New York, and Cleveland) and a globally distributed team; many roles are remote‑eligible. [beacon.bio/careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
- **Values**: “Culture is a Team Sport,” “Commitment to Excellence,” and “We protect time” – emphasizing collaboration, rigor, and work‑life balance. [beacon.bio/careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
- **Growth opportunities**: 19 open positions (as of search date) across Analytics & ML, Clinical Diagnostics, Platform Engineering, Life Sciences, Product & Design, Hardware Engineering, and more. [Greenhouse job board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beaconbiosignals)
- **Team composition**: A mix of neuroscientists, machine‑learning engineers, clinicians, and biopharma veterans – creating a rich, interdisciplinary environment.

## Sources
1. [beacon.bio – Homepage](https://beacon.bio/)
2. [beacon.bio – About](https://beacon.bio/about)
3. [beacon.bio – Products & Services](https://beacon.bio/products-services)
4. [beacon.bio – Careers](https://beacon.bio/careers)
5. [Greenhouse – Beacon Biosignals Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/beaconbiosignals)

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