Senior Staff Accountant - Remote
Loyola

Job Info

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Employment Type:
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Description:

Job Description

Please note, this is a remote position.

Summary:

The Senior Accountant is responsible for accurately maintaining the financial records of the healthcare organization by performing a variety of accounting functions requiring professional competency. Responsibilities include preparing journal entries, completing balance sheet reconciliations and providing account analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Completes the monthly close procedures including journal entries, monthly financial statements and other management reports in accordance with General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Reviews financial statements monthly, analyzing actual data to trend/forecast to verify accurate recording and provides explanations for variances to trend/forecast. Accounts for gifts and grants, reviews expenditures and prepares related financial reports. Perform other accounting tasks as assigned.
  

• Reconciles all assigned balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis. Investigates open items, resolves issues and prepares required journal entries as needed. Communicates with management to ensure current receivable and liability balances. Effective research skills, ability to analyze complex issues and formulate recommendations are required.
  

• Assists in the preparation of schedules for tax filings and internal and external audits. Communicates with auditors explaining accounting practices and systems and provides requested information.
  

• Evaluates compliance with system financial policies and procedures. Assists in development of accounting practices, reconciliations and accurate financial reporting in accordance with system policies and GAAP.
  

• Effectively communicates with internal and external customers and supplies requested financial information as needed.
  

• Actively engages in professional development to maintain current skills and knowledge of industry trends and developments, best practices and business environment.
  

Position Requirements:

Minimum Education:

• Required: Bachelors Degree
  
• Preferred: Masters Degree
  
• Specify Degree(s): Accounting
  

Minimum Experience:

• Required: 5-7 years of previous job related experience
  
• Preferred: 6-10 years of previous job related experience
  
• Details: Healthcare accounting experience preferred
  

Licensure/Certifications

• Preferred: CPA (Certified Public Accountant)
  

Computer Skills:

• Required: Microsoft Excel
  
• Preferred:
  
  • PeopleSoft
    
  • HFM
    

Required Skills:

• Strong analytical and accounting skills
  
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work with all levels of employees, management and external customers
  
• Attention to detail and accuracy to provide quality financial information
  
• Ability to analyze and interpret data
  
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision to complete tasks by required timelines
  

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

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