Senior Accountant

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.