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Form of workJob 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:
• Adaptability: Maintains composure in a fast-paced environment, managing changing priorities and adjusting response appropriately to achieve goals; responds to change with a positive attitude and willingness to learn new ways to accomplish work activities and objectives
• Attention to Detail: Thoroughness in accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved, no matter how small. Monitors and checks work or information and plans and organizes time and resources efficiently
• Communication: Actively listens, interprets verbal and nonverbal cues, and seeks to understand; presents information clearly both verbally and written with the goal to inform and care for patients; able to adjust presentation as needed for audience
• Initiative / Independence: Able to work things out without having to be shown too often. Takes responsibility for own time and effectiveness. Alert to opportunities to contribute appropriately without being told. Able to spot and implement opportunities for improving situations
• Prioritization: Understands their priorities and time-scales in relation to organizational goals and works with a sense of urgency to meet deadlines. Performs jobs in an organized manner maintaining a high standard of work keeping needed parties informed of changes
• Planning and Organization: Manages a high volume of tasks at one time, prioritizing workload while maintaining a high level of attention to detail.
• Numerical Skills: Utilizes intermediate mathematical abilities including basic math computations, percentages, ratios, averages and practical application of algebraic math
• Business Acumen: Ability to read and interpret basic business documents including but not limited to financial, legal, and policy materials. Reacts with appropriate decisions, adjusting workflow and procedure based on materials, and can concisely share information with others
• Problem Solving: Analyzes data to understand root cause and solves problems with multiple variables, both predictable and unpredictable.
• Professionalism: Shows commitment to quality acting with expertise and integrity; ability to foster collaboration, maintain confidentiality communicate, respectfully, and open to receive feedback.
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.
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:
• Adaptability: Maintains composure in a fast-paced environment, managing changing priorities and adjusting response appropriately to achieve goals; responds to change with a positive attitude and willingness to learn new ways to accomplish work activities and objectives
• Attention to Detail: Thoroughness in accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved, no matter how small. Monitors and checks work or information and plans and organizes time and resources efficiently
• Communication: Actively listens, interprets verbal and nonverbal cues, and seeks to understand; presents information clearly both verbally and written with the goal to inform and care for patients; able to adjust presentation as needed for audience
• Initiative / Independence: Able to work things out without having to be shown too often. Takes responsibility for own time and effectiveness. Alert to opportunities to contribute appropriately without being told. Able to spot and implement opportunities for improving situations
• Prioritization: Understands their priorities and time-scales in relation to organizational goals and works with a sense of urgency to meet deadlines. Performs jobs in an organized manner maintaining a high standard of work keeping needed parties informed of changes
• Planning and Organization: Manages a high volume of tasks at one time, prioritizing workload while maintaining a high level of attention to detail.
• Numerical Skills: Utilizes intermediate mathematical abilities including basic math computations, percentages, ratios, averages and practical application of algebraic math
• Business Acumen: Ability to read and interpret basic business documents including but not limited to financial, legal, and policy materials. Reacts with appropriate decisions, adjusting workflow and procedure based on materials, and can concisely share information with others
• Problem Solving: Analyzes data to understand root cause and solves problems with multiple variables, both predictable and unpredictable.
• Professionalism: Shows commitment to quality acting with expertise and integrity; ability to foster collaboration, maintain confidentiality communicate, respectfully, and open to receive feedback.
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.
