Sr. Accountant - Corporate Accounting

Responsibilities

• Analyzes general ledger accounts and independently processes journal entries affecting financial statement segments that the position is responsible for.
• Follows up to resolve any identified discrepancies in the general ledger accounts.
• Presents clear, organized, concise reports of findings regarding fluctuations in account balances.
• Reviews analysis produced by accountants and clerical staff, makes recommendations for improvement or changes; presents analyses to Finance department managers and/or directors for further review.
• Determines proper accounting under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in any area.
• Maintains an understanding of all GAAP for areas of responsibility.
• Maintains complete and organized work papers, and provides to internal and external auditors as necessary, and facilitates the completion of financial statements by providing accurate information from areas of responsibility.
• Assists in planning for and coordination of year-end audit.
• Insures that accountants complete client assistance listing from E&Y.
• Participates in installation and testing of any new g/l related software.
• Prepares monthly and yearly internal and consolidated financials and related statistical data and reports for reporting to executive staff, board of directors and regulatory agencies.
• Advises user departments on development of new departments; acts as general ledger consultant in dealings with user departments.
• Advises finance managers and directors on system issues and capabilities.
• Trains new accountants and managers on use of g/l system.
• Acts as accounting liaison to various departments as assigned.
• Acts in lead role for certain processes including bank reconciliations, prepaid processing and other.
• Performs detail review of the work of accountants and clerical staff as assigned.
• Develops and maintains processes and documentation for all areas assigned.
• Takes complete ownership of assigned tasks with only limited supervision.
• Covers monthly or quarterly reconciliation for all balance sheet accounts assigned.
• Covers coordination of new accounting processes as necessary.
• Ensures all assigned standard monthly statistics and journal entries are recorded and provided to financial liaisons for operations and budgeting.
• Works with appropriate individuals to resolve discrepancies.
• Prepares tax related information for vendors, calculates and assures proper accounting of sales tax liability.
• Reviews institutional accounts receivable for activity and resolution of differences.
• Affords assistance in treasury function through resolution of NSF checks with patient business or other departments.
• Prepares all work papers associated with the hospital revenue cycle, including AR reconciliations, cost and charge payor allowances and templates, and other.
• Monitors investments and prepares journal entries from reports submitted by investment managers.
• Performs reconciliation of investments to general ledger and communicates with investment managers and Orlando Health management team as necessary.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, finance or business field required.
• Licensure/Certification: None required.
• Experience: Two (2) years of experience in accounting required; hospital accounting experience preferred.
• Direct hospital accounting or related experience may be replaced with Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license or minimum one year experience in public accounting for large national CPA firm.
• Experience with complex general ledger system(s), Microsoft Office applications (Word, Access, and particularly proficient in Excel).