Position Title: Senior AccountantReports To: VP, ControllerDivision: Shared ServicesDepartment: FinanceClassification: Exempt Places of Work: HybridPeople Leader: NoAbout the Role:The Senior Accountant is primarily responsible for corporate accounting operations, including but not limited to treasury, tax, accounts receivable, audit, and month-end close related responsibilities. This role is primarily remote; however, candidates must reside within a reasonable commuting distance to our headquarters to support occasional onsite collaboration and team activities.
Key Responsibilities:- Prepare support and enter general journal entries; participate in the monthly close process including variance reporting
- Collaborate with business leaders and management on a variety of accounting centric projects
- Participate with Accounting, Finance, and Analytics on understanding and organizing information
- Proactively interact with other functions and personnel as part of the Equality Health Team
- Prepare monthly account reconciliations and timely research and correct reconciliation variances
- Produce customer billing statements; track accounts receivable; ensure cash receipts are applied to the correct account
- Create detailed standard operating procedures
- Ensure that account data are complete and accurate
- Support financial statement audits through preparing and providing audit requests
- Identify and implement process improvements in areas of ownership or as work is completed cross functionally with team members
- Assist with ad hoc reporting and other duties as assigned
- May be required to work overtime or outside of traditional business hours
Required Skills & Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; or, an equivalent combination of education and/or experience
- Minimum seven (5) years of work experience in a directly related position in a corporate accounting setting
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and web-based technologies
- Proven ability to manage highly confidential and sensitive information, especially in the areas of payroll and financial data
- Demonstrated experience and success in a role that requires accuracy and attention to detail
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills, including the ability to systematically analyze problems, draw relevant conclusions and devise appropriate courses of action
- Able to convey complex or technical information in a manner that others can understand and understand and interpret complex information from others
- Naturally curious and enjoys process improvements
Preferred Skills & Qualifications:- Healthcare industry experience or health plan exposure
- Public accounting experience and/or CPA
- Experience working in a multi entity, multi state environment
- Successful record of managing multiple projects with demonstrated ability to work independently in rapidly-changing environments
- Be flexible, adaptive and have fun
- Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills; able to work with all levels in the organization
