About this role
Department: Finance Reports To: Director, Finance
FLSA: Exempt
Job Purpose:
The Senior Accountant is responsible for assisting the Director of Finance with advanced accounting functions, including reporting financial operations of OrthoIllinois and affiliates.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
· Coordinates the monthly financial close process, including ensuring all costs incurred are properly recorded
· Prepares and reviews journal entries, reports, and account balance reconciliations
· Completes bank reconciliations
· Compiles and distributes reporting packages
· Reviews balance sheet reconciliations
· Performs fixed asset reporting
· Assists with year-end audits, compilations, and tax return preparation and review
· Assists in the preparation of annual budget.
· Assists the Director of Finance in preparing documents and interpreting complicated financial information for managers, executives, and stakeholders
· Analyzes financial information and summarizes financial drivers
· Performs variance analysis and makes recommendations based on analysis
· Partners with assigned department leaders to support reporting and understanding of their financials
Competencies:
· Service: We align our actions and decision making with the organization's guiding platform keeping our patients at the center of all we do.
· Change Agent: We support and contribute to positive change in the organization.
· Communication and Interpersonal Relations: We communicate honestly and with compassion to build connections with our patients and each other.
· Effectiveness: We take ownership of work, doing the right thing for our customer and doing it well.
Organizational Culture:
All OrthoIllinois employees focus on service by putting the mission, vision, and value statements into practice and using the guiding principles of Compassion, Respect, Trust, Integrity, Innovation, Education Fiscal Responsibility, Practice Independence, Accountability, and Empowerment to direct their interactions and decision making. Employees promote and model the service standards to create lasting impressions, extraordinary moments, exceptional on-stage experiences, and meaningful and compassionate connections.
Education and Experience Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or other related field from an accredited college or university, required
• CPA preferred
• Minimum five years previous Accounting or Finance experience required
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft and Google suites
Environmental/Working Conditions:
Working environment is in an office/clinic setting.
Physical/Mental Demands:
· Sit and stand for extended periods of time
· Requires lifting, carrying and/or moving objects in a manner consistent with most office environments (generally, no more than 10 pounds on a frequent basis and 20 pounds on an occasional basis)
· Finger dexterity for typing on a keyboard and using a mouse for extended periods of time
· Vision (e.g., depth perception, color vision, strong vision up close); hearing (e.g., high pitch sounds, soft or distant sounds)
This description is intended to provide only basic guidelines for meeting job requirements. Responsibilities, knowledge, skills, abilities and working conditions may change as needs evolve