Position Summary
The Senior Accountant is a key member of the Finance team, responsible for ensuring accurate financial records, maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements, and supports the Controller with strategic financial initiatives. This role contributes directly to organizational decision-making by managing the state billings, providing reliable reporting, insightful analysis, and effective collaboration with department managers.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Financial Oversight & Reporting
- Assist with the month-end close process including ensuring all transactions are recorded accurately.
- Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts.
- Prepare draft monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements for Controller review. This includes balance sheets and profit & loss reports for all entities and locations.
- Perform financial analysis and variance reporting to identify trends.
- Manage Medicaid/Medicare billing and reconciliation.
- Collaborate with department managers to review financial activity and address reporting needs.
Compliance & Audit
- Prepare and submit government and regulatory filings under the Controller’s supervision.
- Support the audit processes by providing requested documentation and reconciliations, answering queries, and ensuring all audit requirements are met.
- Maintain documentation for financial transactions and internal controls.
Annual Budget
- Assist in the preparation and consolidation of the organization’s annual operating budget.
- Collaborate with managers to gather, review, and validate budget inputs.
- Maintain detailed records of budget assumptions and calculations.
- Work with managers to monitor budgets and spending.
- Support leadership in identifying cost-saving opportunities and financial efficiencies.
Contract Review
- Assist in reviewing vendor contract terms.
- Reconcile invoices to contract terms flagging discrepancies or overages for further review.
- Liaise with department managers and vendors to clarify financial terms or resolve discrepancies.
Project Oversight & Process Improvement
- Support or lead finance-related projects, including system upgrades, process automation, procedural documentation, training materials, position summaries, and reporting enhancements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement best practices and improve financial workflows.
Team Leadership & Supervision
- Provide mentorship and training to other team members.
- Other Duties as Assigned
Core Competencies
- Relationship Building
- Problem-Solving
- Change Management
- Emotional Intelligence
Language Skills:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
Mathematical Skills:
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as ratios and percentages. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra.
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Technology Skills:
Utilizes computers to accomplish job tasks. Computer literacy is essential in word processing, graphic designs, spreadsheet applications, and databases. Knowledge of Outlook or similar program.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk, sit, and stand. The employee will occasionally climb stairs and ramps. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. From time to time, the employee may be required to work long hours. The employee is frequently required to use hands and fingers and talk. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. On occasion, the noise level may be very loud. On occasion the work environment may be cold or hot.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and peripheral vision. Specific hearing abilities required by this job include the ability to hear when communicating with employees and using a phone line.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so assigned.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees may be required to follow other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties as requested, subject to all applicable state and federal laws.
Certain job functions described herein may be subject to possible modification in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.
