Senior Accountant

About the role

Austin Regional Clinic has been voted a top Central Texas employer by our employees for over 15 years! We are one of central Texas’ largest professional medical groups with 35+ locations and we are continuing to grow. We offer the following benefits to eligible team members: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, PTO, 401(k), EAP, Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Tuition Reimbursement, Child Care Assistance, Health & Fitness, Sick Child Care Assistance, Development and more. For additional information visit here.

Responsibilities

• Sets up spreadsheets and/or other required work papers to support journal entries to the general or subsidiary ledgers.
• Organizes and coordinates the posting of entries to the general and subsidiary ledgers in order to maintain a timely close process.
• Reviews the general ledger trial balance monthly for accuracy and reasonableness.
• Reviews existing procedures for recording financial transactions to determine propriety and methods of reducing time and cost of the general ledger accounting operations.
• Reviews financial statements to ensure accuracy.
• Captures and coordinates the monthly closing of the modules in Oracle.
• Consolidates companies.
• Makes eliminating entries.
• Generates accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements and reports.
• Creates board reports.
• Provides special reports as required.
• Provides written monthly analysis of cost trends.
• Reconciles the general ledger control accounts to the subsidiary ledgers balance on a routine basis.
• Reviews, examines and approves entries posted to subsidiary and general ledgers for accuracy and compliance with established accounting policies and procedures.
• Performs independent research into errors in coding of expenses monthly and develops correcting entries as needed.
• Reconciles accounts as assigned.
• Responds to all IRS, TWC and sales tax notices and coordinate all tax filings.
• Books income tax provisions monthly.
• Collaborates and provides required tax information for the engaged tax firm to prepare quarterly tax estimates and tax returns for all companies.
• Prepares and files Franchise tax returns on a timely basis.
• Prepares audit schedules in support of the annual audit.
• Aids in identifying and resolving potential internal control issues.
• Writes accounting and computer operating procedures using established accounting principles, theories, concepts and practices.
• Makes recommendations to his/her supervisor for the continuous refinement of all accounting procedures.
• Adheres to all company policies, including but not limited to, OSHA, HIPAA, compliance and Code of Conduct.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience Required: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting or finance. At least four (4) years of experience in financial statement preparation and reconciliation. Experience with building complex spreadsheets using Excel and Access.
• Preferred: Experience working in a multi-specialty physician practice. Oracle experience. CPA license preferred.

Skills

• Knowledge of accounting principles and practices.
• Knowledge of Oracle preferred.
• Advanced Access and Excel skills.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Excellent interpersonal & problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to engage others, listen and adapt response to meet others’ needs.
• Ability to align own actions with those of other team members committed to common goals.
• Excellent computer and keyboarding skills, including familiarity with Windows.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to perform job duties in a professional manner at all times.
• Ability to understand, recall, and communicate, factual information.
• Ability to understand, recall, and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information.
• Ability to organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology.
• Ability to apply common sense in performing job.
• Skill in analyzing and interpreting financial records.