Manager, Accounting (30839)

Position purpose

The Accounting Manager will have the opportunity to engage in a versatile role consisting of acquisitive accounting and heavy collaboration with upper management. This position will play a key role in providing timely and accurate financial information and reports for both internal and external purposes, consistent with a comprehensive understanding of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), general accounting best practices, and the Company’s policies and procedures.

Responsibilities/Duties/Functions/Tasks:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Understand the composition of financial statements and provide analytical review, noting trends and providing clear explanations.
• Maintain the General Ledger and prepare journal entries, ensuring the accuracy of information collected and compliance with GAAP.
• Perform account analyses and reconciliation and maintain support schedules, with timely follow-up of reconciling items.
• Provide meaningful and accurate financial analysis on specific accounts monthly, by preparing variance reports, ensuring proper documentation is retained and providing feedback and recommendations to management.
• Effectively communicate with Department heads to request and obtain spend estimates to prepare accurate expense accruals.
• Assist in the interim and annual audit processes with external auditors and ensure timely completion of audit schedules.
• Work with the relevant Finance leader to ensure compliance with internal control requirements.
• Participate in the development of new or updated procedures to create efficiencies.
• Manage a high-volume workload based on weekly, monthly, and quarterly deadlines.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of GAAP accounting principles coupled with strong analytical and practical application skills.
• Prepare ad hoc reports and work on projects as needed.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field required. CPA is required.  Master’s degree is preferred.

Experience: Minimum 5+ years of related work experience. Experience at a large accounting or consulting firm providing accounting/auditing and/or financial due diligence services for healthcare providers preferred. Experience with physicians services consulting in a multi-location physician’s practice is highly desired. NetSuite ERP experience is a plus.

Additional Qualifications: N/A

Performance Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional relationships throughout the organization to achieve common goals.
• Excellent communication skills to distill information into a digestible presentation for senior management with recommended corrective actions.
• Comfortable managing multiple projects with tight or overlapping deadlines.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills.
• Experience in creating ad hoc reporting and board materials as required.
• Able to motivate others, promote cross training and create succession planning for the key accounting areas.

Equipment Operated: This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Work Environment: This job operates in professional office environments.