Senior Accounting Manager

Role Description

We are hiring a Senior Accounting Manager to join our team! The Senior Accounting Manager serves as a highly technical accounting leader with strong operational insight, executive presence, and the ability to manage complex multi-entity environments. The Senior Accounting Manager oversees the month-end close process, supports contract compliance, and partners cross-functionally to deliver high-quality financial information to both internal leadership and external stakeholders.

• Serves as the accounting lead for assigned CCRC third-party management contracts including partnering with operations, Board, and finance leadership.
• Monitors and enforces financial controls, reporting timelines, and deliverables required under management agreements.
• Acts as primary accounting contact for client Board of Directors and external stakeholders, presenting monthly and quarterly financial results by translating complex financial data into clear, actionable insights for non-financial audiences.
• Supports onboarding of new communities, CCRC management contracts, and acquisitions into the TA systems and processes.
• Manages and oversees the full month-end and year-end close process for assigned Transforming Age (TA) entities, ensuring timely, accurate, and GAAP-compliant financial reporting.
• Ensures balance sheet integrity through rigorous reconciliation review and issue resolution.
• Serves as a senior technical accounting resource, performing research, interpretation, and application of U.S. GAAP within the FASB Accounting Standards Codification framework, and documenting conclusions for complex and non-routine transactions.
• Leads technical accounting analysis and accounting conclusions related to acquisitions, affiliations, restructurings, and other complex transactions, including purchase accounting, opening balance sheet establishment, consolidation considerations, and intercompany eliminations.
• Prepares formal technical accounting memorandums supporting accounting conclusions for areas including revenue recognition, lease accounting, fixed assets and capitalization, impairments, contributions and donor-restricted funds, and other significant or judgmental areas.
• Owns the preparation, review, and monthly sign-off of all balance sheet account reconciliations, ensuring reconciliations are complete, accurate, properly supported, and maintained in an audit-ready state.
• Reviews and approves journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules prepared by staff, ensuring reconciling items are valid, timely resolved, and appropriately documented.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual financial packages for the affiliates or entities under your management.
• Partners closely with Financial Reporting, Tax & Compliance, Operations, and Finance leadership to ensure accounting treatment aligns with organizational objectives, regulatory requirements, and GAAP.
• Collaborates with external auditors by serving as a primary accounting contact, coordinating audit requests, providing support and documentation, and addressing audit questions and findings.
• Identifies and drives process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, standardization, and scalability of accounting operations.
• Acts as a key accounting stakeholder in system implementations and enhancements, including Workday Financials, ensuring accounting requirements are appropriately designed and executed.
• Directly manages, coaches, and develops accounting staff, setting clear expectations for quality, accountability, and technical rigor.
• Reviews staff work with a high degree of scrutiny, providing timely feedback and mentorship to elevate technical accounting skills and professional judgment.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to support new initiatives, contracts, projects, and organizational changes, providing accounting guidance and financial insight.
• Promotes the Mission, Vision, and Values of Transforming Age and demonstrates commitment to the Culture of Excellence.
• Serves as main contact for Executive Directors for the affiliates and entities under your management.
• Ensures compliance with all regulatory requirements with the assistance of your team members for all affiliates and entities under your management.
• Assists in other corporate functions such as intercompany transactions, investment accounting, Form 990 Tax Reporting, company projects, accounting research, etc.
• Assists with special projects and ad hoc financial analysis as required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting.
• 7+ years’ experience in accounting experience preferably in non-profit organization.
• Active CPA license is required.
• Public accounting experience preferred.
• Experience in client-facing roles including working directly with Board members.
• 4+ years of people management or supervisory experience.
• Experience in multi-entity, regulated environments (senior living, healthcare, nonprofit, real estate preferred).
• Experience supporting external audits and complex accounting reviews.
• Strong knowledge of financial principles, GAAP, and month-end close.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to convey complex financial information to non-financial stakeholders.
• Proficient in using financial software and systems including advanced knowledge of Excel.