Senior Accountant

Howard Brown Health

$81K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of progressive accounting experience
  • Strong understanding of G.A.A.P., particularly in non-profit or healthcare sectors
  • Proficient with Excel and other accounting software; Financial Edge preferred
  • Superior written and verbal communication skills
  • CPA licensure preferred
  • Experience with LGBT organizations/community is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Manage monthly close processes for assigned accounts and assist in financial statements preparation
  • Conduct monthly and quarterly account reconciliations and maintain sub-ledger details
  • Support the preparation of annual budgets, including grant and contract budgets
  • Oversee cash reconciliations, fixed asset management, and revenue recording
  • Provide ad hoc financial analysis to support organizational goals and initiatives
  • Prepare divisional reports for senior management decision-making
  • Assist with financial audits and coordinate audit documentation and communication

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with an impactful community healthcare organization
  • Professional development through collaboration with experienced financial teams
  • Supportive work environment with a focus on diversity and inclusion
  • Cross-training opportunities in various accounting functions
Full Job Description
Pay: $81,921.05/annual

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Senior Accountant role assists the department with the organization's accounting and auditing functions. These functions include maintaining the organization's accounting principles, practices, and procedures. Assists with the preparation of financial operating reports along with positive and effective communication of financial information with Howard Brown staff. The Senior Accountant role should be familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. This position requires experience and judgment to plan and accomplish organizational goals and objectives. The Senior Accountant role with oversight from the Assistant Controller assists with the treasury, accounting, auditing, budget, grant reporting, tax, risk management, internal controls and audit functions of Howard Brown.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Responsible for monthly close process of assigned general ledger accounts and along with assisting the Assistant Controller with the preparation of accurate and timely monthly interim financial statements. Prepares journal entries to support the monthly close process.
  • Performs monthly and quarterly account reconciliation for all assigned accounts. Also maintains sub-ledger detail for assigned accounts.
  • Responsible for providing support in preparing the annual operating budget as well as grants and contract budgets.
  • Responsible for completion of the daily and monthly cash reconciliations, additions, disposals and depreciation of fixed assets, recording of clinical trial revenue and receipts, loan recording/reconciliation to amortization schedules, recording of patient A/R charges, payments and adjustments, and the monthly recording of prepaid and accrued expenses.
  • Under the direction of the Assistant Controller, provides ad hoc financial analysis to support agency's goals and initiatives.
  • Responsible for divisional reporting on a monthly basis to be used by senior management for decision making.
  • In collaboration with the Assistant Controller, the position is responsible for supporting financial audits, including preparation of prepared by client (PBC) work papers and communication with external auditors during audit process.
  • Responsible for recording all revenues to ensure they are properly accrued and recognized, along with preparing the A/R aging as part of monthly close process.
  • Responsible for preparation of grant and contract vouchering for submission to the cognizant funding sources, sending out variance reports to programmatic staff after the close each month, and programmatic discussions between contract and grant accountants and program staff to review monthly financials after monthly close.
  • Responsible for the ongoing reconciliation of federally funded projects.
  • Accountable for ensuring that policies and procedures (internal controls) are in place to provide reasonable assurance that company assets are protected.
  • Coordinates and oversees activities relative to internal controls documentation and testing and segregation of duties.
  • Ensures that company financial records, under responsibility, are maintained in compliance with company accounting policies and procedures and U.S. G.A.A.P.
  • Performs other duties as required.
  • Cross trains on all accounting functions to serve as backup resource.


QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, SKILL REQUIRED:

Required:

  • Bachelor's degree with at least 3 years of experience in accounting with demonstrable progression into higher levels of responsibility
  • Detailed knowledge of G.A.A.P. for non-profit and/or healthcare organizations
  • Experience with accounting and budgeting software systems including Excel, Powerpoint and Word. Financial Edge experience preferred
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal


Preferred:

  • CPA licensure
  • Experience working in an LGBT organization/with the LGBT community; and a community health care organization
  • Ability to work in a team environment


ADA SPECIFICATIONS

  • Requires ability to speak audibly and listen actively.
  • Requires ability to use computers, telephones and other office equipment.
  • Requires ability to sit for extended periods of time.
  • May require occasional bending and lifting up to 25 pounds.
  • May require periodic travel.

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