Job Description:
- Position is responsible for performing complex accounting and financial analysis assignments for the system.
- Contributes to the accuracy of financial statements and develops impactful analytics.
- Recommends changes in accounting systems and procedures.
- Approves reconciliations, provides guidance and training to accounting staff, and supports hospital financial management and administration.
Experience / Knowledge / Skills:
- Five (5) to seven (7) years of accounting work experience
- Advanced financial accounting knowledge and experience required
- Skills must include analytical capabilities sufficient for providing and interpreting variance
- analysis
- Experience retrieving data from ERP system and Business Intelligence software
- Advanced level Excel skills to include pivot tables, vlookup and macros, etc.
- Effective oral and written communication skills
Responsibilities:
- Compiles and analyzes complex financial information to prepare and upload journal entries to the general ledger, including the consolidation of business units and corresponding eliminating entries, to prepare system financials.
- Ensures the accuracy of the recorded transactions.
- Supports month-end close process by reviewing journal entries prepared by accounting staff, researching variances, and communicating findings to management.
- Reconciles complex general ledger accounts with various monthly statements (bank statements, sub-system ledgers), makes adjustments as necessary, and reports material variances to management.
- Approves reconciliations prepared by accounting staff.
- Prepares schedules for financial reporting to internal and external sources, to include auditor requests.
- Compiles and reviews financial data in the preparation of balance sheets, profit and loss statements and other financial reports.
- Analyzes and interprets expenses, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses.
- Prepares financial reports for all levels of management and discerns important trends that can be used by management for decision making.
- Liaises with departments across the organization, to include finance executives.
- Assists with the preparation of annual budget schedules (ex. supply chain, lab, pharmacy service lines, leases, debt, derivatives, joint ventures, etc.).
- Trains, supports and presents complex accounting matters to operations and finance teams across the system.
- Ensures compliance with accounting and reporting deadlines. Identifies and communicates accounting compliance issues and discrepancies.
- Works on complex accounting and cross-departmental projects which include preparing complex financial analyses.
- Documents, identifies, and provides recommendations for process improvements and controls.
- Promotes individual professional growth and development by meeting requirements for mandatory/continuing education, skills competency, supports department-based goals which contribute to the success of the organization; serves as preceptor, mentor, and resource to less experienced staff.
- Other duties as assigned
