Senior Accountant

Job Description

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Accountant to join a healthcare-focused nonprofit organization located in the Greater Philadelphia Region. This Senior Accountant contract opportunity has the potential to become permanent and is ideal for a detail-oriented finance specialist with strong experience in nonprofit accounting, grant administration, and day-to-day transactional accounting. The person in this role will contribute to budgeting, financial analysis, reporting, and compliance activities while helping maintain accurate grant and payroll-related records.

What you get to do every single day:

• Contribute to the annual budgeting cycle by gathering financial information, organizing supporting documentation, and assisting with requests related to external audits.

• Prepare and interpret financial analyses that highlight operating patterns, spending variances, and cost trends, then communicate practical recommendations based on the results.

• Evaluate accounting controls and finance procedures on an ongoing basis to support compliance expectations and identify opportunities to improve efficiency.

• Oversee recurring grant billing activities, including monthly and quarterly invoicing, while maintaining accurate records tied to funding requirements.

• Develop and maintain payroll allocation schedules and complete related accounting entries to support accurate expense distribution in the general ledger.

• Reconcile supply and payroll-related expenditures to ensure transactions are properly recorded and aligned with grant and organizational reporting needs.

• Partner with accounting leadership to support federal grant billing processes and assist with year-end financial reporting activities.

• Work closely with accounts payable, payroll, and program teams to ensure receivables, staffing expenses, and grant charges are assigned correctly across funding sources.

Other requirements for the Senior Accountant position include and are not limited to:

• Prior experience in nonprofit accounting, preferably within healthcare, hospital, or social assistance environments.

• Strong knowledge of government grant accounting, grant compliance, and grant management practices.

• Hands-on background in transactional accounting, including reconciliations, journal entries, and general ledger support.

• Ability to prepare financial reports, analyze variances, and explain findings clearly to stakeholders.

• Experience supporting budgeting processes, audit preparation, and year-end reporting requirements.

• Proficiency working cross-functionally with accounting, payroll, and operational teams in a deadline-driven setting.

• Solid understanding of financial controls and the ability to identify process improvement opportunities.

Interested candidates should reach out to Matthew Burns at View phone number on ziprecruiter.com and reference JO# 03720-0013479601