Healthcare Senior Accountant

Job title: Healthcare Senior AccountantLocation: 100% RemoteShift timing: Monday - Friday | 8 AM - 5 PMJob Duration: 03+ months with possible extensionRequired Tools: EPIC Cash reconciliation, Lawson, Blackline experience Job Description:Position is responsible for performing complex accounting and financial analysis assignments for the System. Contributes to the accuracy of financial statements and develops impactful analytics.Recommends changes in accounting systems and procedures. Approves reconciliations, provides guidance and training to accounting staff, and supports hospital financial management and administration.Compile and analyze complex financial data to prepare and upload journal entries to the general ledger, including consolidations and eliminating entries, ensuring accuracy and completeness of system financials.Support the month-end close process by reviewing staff-prepared journal entries, researching variances, and communicating key findings to management.Reconcile complex general ledger accounts against bank statements and sub-ledgers, making necessary adjustments and reporting material variances to leadership; approve reconciliations completed by accounting staff.Prepare detailed schedules for internal and external financial reporting, including audit requests, and compile financial data used in balance sheets, income statements, and other key reports.Analyze and interpret expenses, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to forecast future financial performance; prepare reports for all levels of management, highlighting trends and insights to support decision-making.Partner with cross-functional departments and finance executives to support annual budget preparation across key service lines (e.g., supply chain, lab, pharmacy, leases, debt, derivatives, joint ventures).Train, support, and present complex accounting concepts to operations and finance teams throughout the organization.Ensure compliance with accounting standards, internal controls, and reporting deadlines; identify and address compliance issues and discrepancies.Lead and support complex accounting and cross-departmental projects, including developing advanced financial analyses and recommending process improvements and control enhancements.Promote professional development through continuing education and competency maintenance; serve as a preceptor, mentor, and subject-matter resource for junior staff.Perform other duties as assigned. Experience / Knowledge / Skills:Five (5) to seven (7) years of accounting work experienceAdvanced financial accounting knowledge and experience requiredSkills must include analytical capabilities sufficient for providing and interpreting variance analysisExperience retrieving data from ERP system and Business Intelligence softwareAdvanced level Excel skills to include pivot tables, vlookup and macros, etc.Effective oral and written communication skillsFinancial Reporting & General Ledger Management:Compiles and analyzes complex financial information to prepare and upload journal entries to the general ledger, including the consolidation of business units and corresponding eliminating entries, to prepare system financials.Ensures the accuracy of the recorded transactions.Supports month-end close process by reviewing journal entries prepared by accounting staff, researching variances, and communicating findings to management.Account Reconciliation:Reconciles complex general ledger accounts with various monthly statements (bank statements, sub-system ledgers), makes adjustments as necessary, and reports material variances to management.Approves reconciliations prepared by accounting staff.Financial Reporting & Analysis:Prepares schedules for financial reporting to internal and external sources, to include auditor requests.Compiles and reviews financial data in the preparation of balance sheets, profit and loss statements and other financial reports.Analyzes and interprets expenses, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses.Prepares financial reports for all levels of management and discerns important trends that can be used by management for decision making.Cross-Functional Collaboration & Budgeting:Liaises with departments across the organization, to include finance executives.Assists with the preparation of annual budget schedules (ex. supply chain, lab, pharmacy service lines, leases, debt, derivatives, joint ventures, etc.).Trains, supports and presents complex accounting matters to operations and finance teams across the System.Compliance & Process Improvement:Ensures compliance with accounting and reporting deadlines.Identifies and communicates accounting compliance issues and discrepancies.Works on complex accounting and cross-departmental projects which include preparing complex financial analyses.Documents, identifies, and provides recommendations for process improvements and controls.Professional Development & Leadership:Promotes individual professional growth and development by meeting requirements for mandatory/continuing education, skills competency, supports department-based goals which contribute to the success of the organization.Serves as preceptor, mentor, and resource to less experienced staff. Must Have:Accounting Degree Bachelors and/or Masters Nice To Have:EPIC Cash reconciliation; Lawson; Blackline experience