Sr Accountant M&A

About the role

The Senior Accountant of M&A Accounting is responsible for preparing and managing accounting workstreams related to entity acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, and joint venture contributions. This role ensures accurate and timely accounting in compliance with GAAP and supports the successful onboarding and offboarding of entities.

Responsibilities

• Prepare general ledger journal entries
• Onboard and offboard entities, including:
  • Accounting due diligence – obtain and review seller financials and billing reports to identify concerns or risk
  • Interpret legal agreements to ensure accurate accounting treatment
  • Integration of new entities onto AMSURG platforms and processes
  • Timely and accurate completion of post close adjustments
  • Monitor status of any transition service agreements
  • Complete deconsolidation entries and cash analyses
  • Manage entity cash and complete net working capital calculations
  • Attend pre and post transaction calls
  • Identify and recommend improvements to process or control issues for newly acquired entities
  • Conduct income statement trend analysis for entities and prepare commentary for review of center’s financial reports
  • Investigate and resolve discrepancies identified through monthly reconciliations
  • Cook up and coordinate successful transition of newly acquired entities to center accounting team
  • Train center business office staff on policies and procedures related to accounts receivable and accounts payable
  • Collaborate and work effectively with other departments including Finance, Operations, Legal and leadership
  • Track multiple complex transactions on different timelines
  • Analyze, explain, and report significant fluctuations in new entity activity
  • Participate in monthly management meetings discussing departments policies and procedures
  • Engage actively in process improvement initiatives within the Center of Excellence (COE)
  • Support special projects and ad hoc requests as needed

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in accounting from an accredited college or university is required.
• Minimum of 3 years of accounting experience, and at least 1 year of accounting revenue recognition experience.
• Active CPA license required.
• Advanced knowledge and ability to use window office suite programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.); as well as ability to learn various Accounting and reporting software.
• Smitsheet & IBM Planning & Analytics experience is a plus but not required.