Senior Accountant

Description

JOB SUMMARY:

The Senior Accountant is responsible for repetitive and ad hoc duties to support the Accounting organization in all phases of the Accounting cycles.

EDUCATION/CREDENTIALS:


* BBA/BS in Accounting required.


* CPA preferred, but not required


* MBA/MS and/or professional certification or path a plus.

JOB RELATED EXPERIENCE:


* Four+ years in the role with solid, stable track record of successful and proven experience in a service provider industry business with total annual revenues of at least $100 million required.

JOB-RELATED SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:


* Accounting software and processes experience.


* Prior health care industry and multi-location, multi-state service provider experience preferred.


* Advanced analytical and data mining abilities.


* Strong technical accounting skills and knowledge including controls, principles and procedures.


* Strong verbal and written communication, customer service, organizational, and detail orientation skills


* Strong technology skills including MS-Office suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word)


* Advanced to expert MS-Excel skills including macros, lookups, pivot tables and advanced functions


* Priority-, checklist- and deadline-driven with strong self-motivation, work ethic and determination and win-win, whatever-it-takes positive attitude traits

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:


* Perform month-end financial statement review with regional directors of operations for reasonableness and comparison to financial metric benchmarks.


* Ensuring compliance with applicable GAAP accounting policies.


* Preparing monthly journal entries, variance analysis, monitor month-end close.


* Reviewing general ledger accounts and determining, posting and correcting journal entries.


* Performing account analysis and reconciliations.


* Completing assigned period close responsibilities and assisting other team members as appropriate.


* Posting monthly, quarterly and yearly accruals and deferrals.


* Identifying opportunities to automate manual processes, reduce costs and to improve and streamline processes for greater efficiency and cost savings.


* Providing external audit, annual budgeting and periodic forecasting support.


* Ad hoc projects and other duties as assigned.