Senior Accountant

About the role

The Senior Accountant is primarily responsible for corporate accounting operations, including but not limited to treasury, tax, accounts receivable, audit, and month-end close related responsibilities. This role is primarily remote; however, candidates must reside within a reasonable commuting distance to our headquarters to support occasional onsite collaboration and team activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare support and enter general journal entries; participate in the monthly close process including variance reporting
• Collaborate with business leaders and management on a variety of accounting centric projects
• Proactively interact with other functions and personnel as part of the Equality Health Team
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations and timely research and correct reconciliation variances
• Create detailed standard operating procedures
• Ensure that account data are complete and accurate
• Support financial statement audits through preparing and providing audit requests
• Identify and implement process improvements in areas of ownership or as work is completed cross functionally with team members
• Assist with ad hoc reporting and other duties as assigned

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; or, an equivalent combination of education and/or experience
• Minimum seven (5) years of work experience in a directly related position in a corporate accounting setting
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and web-based technologies
• Proven ability to manage highly confidential and sensitive information, especially in the areas of payroll and financial data
• Demonstrated experience and success in a role that requires accuracy and attention to detail
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills, including the ability to systematically analyze problems, draw relevant conclusions and devise appropriate courses of action
• Naturally curious and enjoys process improvements

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Healthcare industry experience or health plan exposure
• Public accounting experience and/or CPA
• Experience working in a multi entity, multi state environment
• Successful record of managing multiple projects with demonstrated ability to work independently in rapidly-changing environments
• Be flexible, adaptive and have fun
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills; able to work with all levels in the organization