Senior Accountant

Duties:
Job Summary:
Prepares, analyzes, and reviews financial statements using accounting principles.
Reconciles accounts from general ledger, and prepares journal entries, budgets and month end reports.
Identifies complex accounting problems, researches solutions and corrects problems.
Examines financial statements and documents for conformance with accounting requirements and principles.
May have lead responsibility for special projects.
Participates in all levels of accounting activities within the finance department.
Applies GAAP to carry out the core responsibilities of all assigned duties.

Key responsibilities will include:
-Reconciliation, analysis and adjustment of general ledger accounts are completed on a timely basis.
-Ensures accuracy of account balances.
-Ensures account activity complies with accounting standards.
-Use online research and review of original record sources to evaluate appropriateness of account balance.
-Maintains accurate detail in support of the balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other documents that project the organization's financial position.
-Provides completed account analysis and reconciliation of cash on a daily basis and investigates to supervisor/manager for review any discrepancies in a timely manner.
-Routinely review vendor statements for key vendors to identify any potential delays in payment or other issues.
-Ensures that credits detailed on the vendor statements are utilized.
-Inputs accounts payable data and verifies for accuracy.
-Computer input is performed completely, accurately and in a timely manner.
-All information is verified and open invoice register is presented to manager for approval of the check runs prior to printing.
-Ensure that information input is verified a Products the invoice.
-Match the invoice, check request and check copy to cancel the voucher package and prepare for filing.
-Ensure check runs are performed in accordance with the established scheduled days and that checks are sealed and mailed.
-Maintain and review vendor master file to ensure that information is current, not duplicative and complete and accurate.
-Prepares assigned areas of annual budget, including capital budget, portions of operating budget, analysis of the budget, and the budget package in accordance with due dates.
-Upload the annual budgets into the accounting software.
-Written and verbal communication is done in a manner that is clear, concise, timely, and accurately conveys the message.
-Language and content should be grammatically correct, and presented in a way that it easily understood.
-Communicates with financial institutions, tax authorities, external auditors, corporate office, and others to correctly account for and report financial information.
-Prepare and distribute monthly close calendar communicating when deliverables are expected.
-Provides customers with timely, accurate, and thorough responses to their inquiries.
-All audit work papers are completed and analyzed within appropriate time frames to allow for effective and efficient audits.
-Interacts with internal and external auditors as necessary.
-Maintains accurate accounting of all cash on hand as well as detailed records pertaining to cash transfers between accounts and wires to outside agencies.
Prepares and completes accurate journal entries by closing date on monthly basis:
-Ensure approvals are obtained prior to filing.
-Entries entered timely in general ledger.
-Identifies accounting problems and internal control weaknesses, researches possible solutions and presents recommendations and conclusions to Senior Accountant and/or Management for further evaluation.

Skills:
Required Skills & Experience:
-Senior Accountant applicants must have a minimum of four years prior accounting experience.
-Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
-Experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals while performing a variety of complicated tasks.
-Demonstrates knowledge and application of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), standards and procedures.
-A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected along with leading the work of others.
-Must be able to lift a minimum of 5 lbs., push and pull a minimum of 5 lbs. and stand a minimum of 1 hour per day.

Preferred Skills & Experience:
-Prior hospital or healthcare accounting experience highly preferred.
-Prior experience with ERP software: PeopleSoft Financial and/or Lawson.