Senior Accountant

Up to $75,000 / Year

Elderwood Administrative Services, LLC, a large senior & pediatric post-acute healthcare services provider, is recruiting a Senior Accountant. 

 

Senior Accountant is a position suitable for accountants with 5 or more years of experience working in general ledger accounting. Accountants will perform month-end closing tasks, making entries in the general ledger and ultimately generating financial statements for their assigned healthcare facilities. After completing month-end close, accountants will reconcile balance sheet accounts, monitoring and troubleshooting variances and inaccuracies. Senior Accountants are assigned more complex areas, where they will use their experience and knowledge to gain an understanding of the underlying business activities and take action to ensure proper revenue/expense recognition.

 

Applicants must be capable of working remotely, using technology such as messaging applications and video screenshares to collaborate with colleagues. This is a hybrid position that requires on-site work at our corporate office 1-4 days per month. Our office is located at 500 Seneca Street, Suite 100, Buffalo, NY 14204.

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• Prepare, review and publish financial statements for assigned portfolio of healthcare facilities, including variance analysis of the facilities’ financial performance.
• Maintain rate models for Medicaid nursing home reimbursement, recording accruals and deferrals as needed to accurately recognize revenue.
• Prepare expense accruals for complex and highly material areas such as agency nursing and self-funded medical insurance based on analysis of expense trend and an understanding of the healthcare facilities’ operations, proactively identifying additional information as needed and contacting healthcare facility administrators with questions.
• Review accuracy of GL coding and other entered fields on vouchers prepared by accounts payable and provide corrections/coaching to payables clerks as needed.
• Document and record ownership-level transactions impacting assigned healthcare facilities based on legal documents (leases, purchase & sale contracts, etc.).
• Support financial audits, bank audits, and other compliance tasks by guiding external users to the needed supporting documents and providing walkthroughs of business processes.

• 5+ years of accounting experience, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliation, and financial statement review. Healthcare industry experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, including the courses Intermediate Accounting I/II and Advanced Accounting.
• Proficient Microsoft Windows navigation while multi-tasking across multiple applications simultaneously, and in using the Microsoft Office suite to accomplish business tasks.
• Expert-level proficiency in using Microsoft Excel to extract, clean, and manipulate, and summarize data.
• High attention to detail and accuracy, along with the ability to multitask, prioritize, and meet deadlines.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to listen actively and respond to others.
• Team player with the ability to establish and maintain collegial working relationships.

• This position requires regular interaction with residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors. In order to ensure a safe work environment for residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors of the Company, and to permit unfettered communication between the employee and those residents, coworkers, visitors, and supervisors, this position requires that the employee be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language at an intermediate or more advanced level.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Applicants and employees are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.