Job Board: Stock Plan Administrator, Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Anaheim, CA

Overview:

Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty biopharmaceutical company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area whose products help patients with serious, difficult-to-treat medical conditions. Our efforts are currently focused on the fields of neurology and nephrology, areas of medicine which have significant unmet medical needs.

We offer employees the opportunity to collaborate with a small team of highly-skilled, compassionate and motivated people with a passion for improving the lives of patients with serious, difficult-to-treat medical conditions.

Great Company! Awesome Environment! Outstanding Benefits!

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

This individual will be responsible for the day to day equity compensation activities (see further detail below), payroll review, AP invoice review, expense report review (including Pharma guideline adherence), Concur Expense system administration (adding and deleting new users, answer questions, etc.), AMEX credit card administration, and other as needed activities. This individual will also be responsible for converting the current Equity Edge Online system from a hosted system to a co-hosted system, which will allow full control of our equity compensation system.
Qualifications:

Options:

Implementing online option grants
Managing new hire, promotion and annual option grants
Managing option exercises
Insider trading
Managing the insider trading window on an individual basis
Managing the trading and compliance
Distributing notifications of opening / closing of window
Filing of Form 3, 4 and 5
Managing 10b5(1) plans
SOX compliance
NQ tax compliance - payroll notification

Restricted Stock Awards:

Implementing online restricted stock awards
Managing grants
(sales force 2x per year grants, promotions, etc.)
Managing 83b elections and/or tax implications on vesting
Vesting tracking / notifications
Payroll implications
SOX compliance

ESPP:

Implementing online ESPP enrollment
Managing changes in deduction percentages
Managing the purchase 4x per year
Managing refunds / terminations
Payroll interface

Taxes:

Filing of 3921 and 3922 forms to both employees and IRS
Distribution of Tax Summaries to employees
Distribution of Exercise confirmation to employees
Distribution of Purchase confirmations to employees

Reporting:

Quarterly Reports to employees (currently done by outside company)
Quarterly Manager reports (currently done by outside company)
Any other ad hoc reporting requirements
Proxy data
10-Q and 10-K data

Stock-based Compensation:

Monthly forecasting valuation (currently done quarterly because of the hosted environment)
Developing and analyzing inputs into model
"What if" scenarios
Budget involvement

Stock Repurchases:

Management of broker
Funds Transfer
Communication with Transfer Agent

Job Requirements:

Bachelor Degree: Accounting

3-5 years of Experience Stocks and Accounting

50 - 70% Stock vs. 30-40% of accounting

Must have experience with Equity
Edge online (or a Similar Software) and MAS 200

Technical Skills: MS Office - Excel, Word, PPT

Must have worked in Publically
Traded Company (privately held)

Preferred:

Pharma Guildelines

Auditing / SOX experience

Questcor provides competitive salary, bonus and a full range of benefits (100% paid for employee & 90% paid for dependents), 401(k), ESPP and stock options. For more information, you may view our website at http://www.questcor.com/careers/company-benefits.

Questcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer