Corporate Accounting Manager - Fully Remote

Job Profile Summary

This role focuses on performing a variety of financial activities, including accounting, financial analysis, audit, tax, and collections, while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Accounting related duties: Account Reconciliation, cost accounting, budgeting, preparing financial reports, data entry, and maintaining the general ledger. A management role that supervises employees focusing on tactical, operational activities within a specified area, with the majority of time spent overseeing area of responsibility, planning, prioritizing and/or directing the responsibilities of employees. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and/or indirect reports. A role that manages experienced professionals who exercise latitude and independence in assignments. Responsibilities typically include: policy and strategy implementation for short-term results (1 year or less), problems faced are difficult to moderately complex, and influences others outside of own job area regarding policies, practices and procedures.

Job Overview

This position provides financial leadership and direction to all aspects of the financial cycle to ensure optimal performance in collection and analysis of financial data and is responsible for timely, effective financial reporting. Assists in the organization and oversight of the annual audit; monthly-consolidated financial statements, month end closing and financial review; and be responsible for establishing, monitoring, communicating and maintaining internal controls. Also assists in cash flow monitoring, variance reporting, and financial analyses as required. Compliance functions include monitoring compliance with all financial reporting standards, initiating policy revisions when required, maintaining and updating internal procedures as necessary. System administration functions include the on-going operational and informational integrity of the general ledger as well as other applications, reports, and databases. Duties also include monitoring resolution of policy issues, and acting as liaison with both internal and external auditors.

Job Description

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

2. Five (5) years of progressively responsible accounting experience and two (2) years of supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Ten (10) years of progressively responsible accounting experience including supervisory experience.

2. Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Duties and Responsibilities: The duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of work and are not intended to be an all-inclusive list. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.

1. Assists in the preparation of annual financial statements (including footnotes), monthly financial statements, including variance analysis, and balance sheet review.

2. Reviews financial statements and trial balances on a monthly basis to identify unusual items, variances or trends, which impact the consolidated results.

3. Ensures the accurate completion of account reconciliations and manages the resolution of un-reconciled accounts.

4. Reviews of trial balances on a monthly basis to identify unusual items, variances or trends, which impact the consolidated results.

5. Oversees tax filings process in connection of third-party tax preparers.

6. Ensures the accuracy and timeliness of allocations and direct charges.

7. Assists in research on technical accounting issues with staff and external auditors as required to comply with US GAAP.

8. Maintains a current Corporate Accounting policy manual. Provides guidance and recommendations for the establishment of internal policies regarding both economic and compliance issues, and implements new fiscal policies as required.

9. Assists with the audits at year-end and other related audit activities.

10. Makes recommendations on employee hires, transfers, promotions, salary changes, discipline, terminations, and similar actions.

11. Provides effective direction, guidance, and leadership over the staff for effective teamwork and motivation.

12. Develops, leads, and manages a diverse team ensuring that succession and development plans are in place to achieve the company’s goals.

13. Maintains position descriptions, responsibilities and standards of performance for department employees. Provides input on performance and salary reviews on an annual basis.

14. Ensures that all departments meet service level agreements, quality standards, and performance goals based on the development and monitoring of cost and process metrics.

15. Proposes enhancements to operational processes to improve efficiency and/or effectiveness.

16. Troubleshoots and supports other departments as issues come up (i.e. changes in systems, payroll changes, third party audit support, etc.).

17. Analyzes operations to evaluate performance of the team in meeting objectives or to determine areas of potential cost reduction, program improvement, or policy changes.

18. Applies current knowledge and understanding of regulations, technical accounting, industry trends, current best practices, new developments, and applicable laws to ensure operational and financial effectiveness. Partners to ensure regulatory compliance for all areas of responsibility.

Physical Requirements:

1. Professional office environment with typical office requirements such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, etc.

2. This is largely a sedentary role, which involves sitting most of the time, but may involve movements such as walking, standing, reaching, ascending / descending stairs and operate office equipment.

3. Frequently required to speak, hear, communicate and exchange information.

4. Able to see and read computers displays, read fine print, and/or normal type size print and distinguish letters, numbers and symbols.

5. Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

6. Requires manual dexterity using fine hand manipulation to operate computer keyboard.

Skills & Abilities:

1. Ability to apply financial management concepts and methodologies to projects.

2. Demonstrated ability to work and effectively communicate with individuals from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines and levels of expertise, strong facilitation and presentation skills.

3. Effective analytical thinking and ability to gather, understand, integrate, and synthesize complex information in order to develop solutions, make recommendations, or propose action plans, excellent problem-solving skills.

4. Knowledge of hospital financial analyses and decision support systems as well as statistical and analytic software modes (Tsi, Access, Excel, AMS).

5. Strong computer skills, including proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel and Power Point), and familiarity with databases (e.g., experience using MS Access) and Meditech systems.

6. Outstanding attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to anticipate programmatic needs.

7. High degree of professional confidence, credibility, and communication skills to effectively work with leadership teams.

8. Ability to coordinate across disciplines and departments, able to work both independently and with stakeholders.

9. Highly professional manner with an ability to maintain sensitivity, confidentiality, and tactfulness.

10. Excellent writing skills including the ability to draft and present program materials.

11. Comfortable with ambiguity-works to resolve open questions, can define a process to resolve ambiguity, is comfortable that the plan may change.

12. Concise and effective verbal and written communication skills-can talk easily to a variety of audiences.