Job Title: Senior, Staff Accountant
Department: Finance
Job Summary: This position manages accounting and financial reporting, prepares accounting information, analyzes financial information, and oversees the preparation of financial reports.
Qualifications and Requirements:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Job duties may be modified at any time based on business needs.
Essential Job Duties:
Financial Operations, Reporting & Systems
- Oversee and ensure accuracy of financial records, including general ledger activity, journal entries, reconciliations, and month‑end and year‑end close.
- Prepare and review financial statements, including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.
- Assist with annual budget preparation, cost allocation plans, and ongoing financial analysis.
- Support administration and optimization of accounting and payroll systems (enterprise‑level systems preferred).
Compliance, Grants & Specialized Healthcare Accounting
- Manage accounting activities related to restricted grants and federal funding, including drawdowns and required financial reporting.
- Support internal and external audits and ensure compliance with GAAP, funding agency requirements, and organizational policies.
- Apply working knowledge of healthcare‑specific accounting, including 340B pharmacy financial activity and lease accounting under applicable ASC guidance.
- Support leadership and regulatory reporting requirements, including UDS‑related financial data as applicable.
Collaboration, Guidance & Professional Development
- Oversee Accounts Receivable and Payroll functions to ensure accurate billing, payroll processing, and related accounting entries.
- Provides support and guidance to finance staff on accounting processes, reporting requirements, and compliance matters, without direct supervisory responsibility.
- Participate in professional development to maintain current knowledge of accounting standards, healthcare finance, and regulatory requirements.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Required Minimum Qualifications - Education, Experience, Certificates & Licenses:
- Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting related field.
- 8+ years' experience in general accounting, including full charge bookkeeping through month-end closing, financial statement preparation.
- Demonstrated strong understanding of GAAP accounting processes and principles.
Preferred Qualifications- Education, Experience, Certificates & Licenses:
- Direct experience with an FQHC, community health center, or non-profit organization.
- Experience managing restricted grants, federal funding, and compliance reporting (Uniform Data System-UDS)
- Proficiency with accounting systems, preferably Sage Intacct (or comparable enterprise‑level financial systems).
- Experience with 340B pharmacy financial accounting and related compliance considerations.
- Working knowledge of lease accounting and applicable ASC guidance (e.g., right‑of‑use assets).
Required Language Skills:
- Ability to comprehend and compose effective instructions, correspondence, and communications in English in both oral and written format.
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to occasionally exert enough force to move objects weighing up to 10 pounds.
- Ability to continuously remain in a stationary position.
- Ability to occasionally move about inside the workplace to access files, office machinery, etc.
- Possesses hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to constantly operate computer, telephone, and other office machinery.
- Possesses close visual acuity necessary to accurately record and view information on a computer monitor, handwritten and typed documents.
- Ability to discern the nature of sounds at a normal spoken volume.
Other Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Demonstrated aptitude in basic accounting.
- Ability to employ statistical / mathematical methods to collect and analyze data and develop solutions.
- Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret graphs.
- Ability to perform a variety of assignments and make decisions requiring independent judgment.
- Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.
- Knowledge of community health centers preferred.
- Expert knowledge of accounting practices and principles.
- Computer literacy required with proficiency in use of Microsoft Office programs and accounting software.
- Knowledge of Sage Intacct and NextGen software preferred.
- Proficiency in Excel spreadsheets with specific ability to create and edit Pivot tables and graphs required.
- Knowledge of programming, report writer software, and adobe standard strongly preferred.
- Ability to prioritize and plan work activities and use time efficiently.
- Demonstrated leadership skills with ability to build effective teams.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Work Environment & Conditions:
- Work environment is typical of an administrative office setting with no substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
- Work occasionally requires extended hours to include evenings and weekends.
- Work requires ability to be contacted by cell phone during or outside of regular work hours.