Senior Accountant

Job Title: Senior Accountant - SR ACCT

Location: Downtown Chicago, Hybrid Tues/Thurs

Position Summary

HealthBridge Financial is seeking a systems-oriented Senior Accountant who enjoys improving processes as much as producing accurate financial results. This role will be a key contributor to the monthly close and will help strengthen the accounting infrastructure needed to support a growing healthcare finance business. The ideal candidate is highly proficient in Excel, comfortable working across systems, and naturally looks for smarter, more automated ways to complete recurring accounting work.

Core Responsibilities

• Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, supporting schedules, and other close deliverables.
• Support the monthly, quarterly, and annual close while meeting established deadlines and quality standards.
• Maintain general ledger accuracy and investigate unusual balances or activity.
• Analyze financial data and explain significant period-over-period and budget-to-actual variances.
• Support financial reporting, audit requests, and documentation requirements.

Process Improvement & Systems

• Partner with the Controller to simplify, standardize, and automate reconciliations and recurring close activities.
• Use Sage Intacct, Brex, Amazon QuickSight, and advanced Excel to improve accounting workflows and reporting.
• Build and maintain automated schedules, data transformations, and reconciliation tools.
• Document accounting processes and identify opportunities to remove manual handoffs and duplicate work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field; CPA or CPA-track preferred.
• 4-7 years of progressive accounting experience.
• Advanced Excel skills, including Power Query, pivot tables, complex formulas, and structured data analysis.
• Strong Sage Intacct experience; experience with Brex and Amazon QuickSight preferred.
• Excellent understanding of month-end close, reconciliations, and general ledger accounting.
• Demonstrated ability to improve recurring accounting processes through automation and better system design.
• High level of ownership, attention to detail, and comfort operating in a fast-changing environment.

What Success Looks Like

• Close deliverables are accurate, timely, and well documented.
• Manual accounting work declines as recurring tasks become more automated.
• Reconciliations and schedules are scalable, easy to review, and easy to maintain.
• Issues are identified early and resolved with clear ownership.
• The Senior Accountant becomes a go-to resource for both accounting execution and process improvement.