Accountant Senior

Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Prepares and posts recurring and general journal entries, ensuring they are posted timely and accurately. These entries may require a more in-depth understanding of US GAAP.
• Serves as key contact for questions related to journal entries from both preparers and management.
• Identifies areas for improvement and makes recommendations regarding the method and format of data collected to support the accurate and efficient processing of journal entries.
• Serves as key contact for all account reconciliations to assist with questions and how to resolve reconciling items.
• Assists in review of account reconciliations ensuring compliance with WellSpan policies, procedures, and documentation requirements.
• Assists in the development of processes and documentation to reconcile data between ERP and systems maintained outside of ERP.
• Compiles data for and prepares regularly scheduled or special reports, analyses, and financial statements.
• Performs job responsibilities in accordance with policies and procedures to ensure that the internal control structure is maintained. Assists in helping accounting associates remain compliant with policies and procedures.
• Assists in the preparation of federal, state, and other regulatory reports.
• Assists independent auditors with interim and year-end audit(s), primarily pulling supporting documentation.
• Compiles data and assists in providing explanations for variances (actual to budget, current month to prior month, etc.). Starts to understand relationships between how operations impact results.

Common Expectations:

• Capable of operating independently with little or no supervision.
• Accurately analyzes, interprets, and articulates financial statements and entity performance.
• Maintains established policies and procedures, objectives, quality assessment and safety standards and recommends changes to improve the accounting function.
• Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, staff meetings and workshops.
• Provides outstanding service to all customers; fosters teamwork; and practices fiscal responsibility through improvement and innovation.
• Provides ad-hoc financial analysis and reports to Management as requested.