Accounting Manager

Job Summary:

This managing level employee is primarily responsible for overseeing financial transactions, analyses, and audits. They serve as a main point of contact for outside contacts and agencies, communicating results to senior management while ensuring compliance with policies and procedures.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Pursues professional growth and provides developmental opportunities for others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback. This includes building collaborative, cross-functional relationships, training and developing talent for growth opportunities, delegating tasks and decisions, fostering open dialogue amongst team members, executing performance management guidelines, and working closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement.
• Manages designated work unit by translating business plans into tactical action items. Ensures all policies and procedures are followed, delegates tasks to meet goals and objectives, oversees the completion of work assignments, aligns team efforts, builds accountability for and measures progress in achieving results, identifies and addresses improvement opportunities, removes obstacles that impact performance, and guides performance while developing contingency plans accordingly.
• Supports financial transactions by preparing complex accounting activities and reconciliations leading to a complete set of accurate financial statements in accordance with GAAP and company policies. This includes reviewing and approving complex accounting activities prepared by others and making recommendations.
• Conducts external reporting of Company financial information by completing, reviewing, and interpreting reports and analyses for statutory reporting to external agencies. This involves identifying needs for new report designs, maintaining relationships with external parties to resolve issues, and ensuring reporting requirements are met.
• Supports financial analyses by reviewing operational statistics to explain financial results, inform decision-making, and take action to pursue efficiencies and quality financial outcomes. This includes ensuring ad hoc requests for analysis are completed, establishing data gathering methods, and providing expertise in data origination.
• Communicates financial results by developing and presenting conclusions about areas of accountability to appropriate levels of management in verbal and written form. This also includes documenting positions and processes in support of process improvement, knowledge retention, and audit requirements.
• Participates in finance system design, implementations, enhancements, and continuous improvements by reviewing the flow of transactions through source systems. This includes validating ongoing configuration decisions and reviewing systems to ensure that new systems, upgrades, and other maintenance activities do not impact operations or financial statements.
• Monitors Company financial information by completing, reviewing, and interpreting standard and/or ad hoc reports. This includes evaluating the validity of assets, liabilities, revenues, and operating expenses in conformity with GAAP and Company accounting policies, making recommendations, and communicating financial reporting to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Meets requirements of policies and procedures to remain compliant and ensures staff compliance.
• Supports internal and external audits by communicating with auditors, being the point of contact for auditors, ensuring appropriate documents are completed, and escalating issues as appropriate.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Constructive Feedback
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Strategic Thinking
• Team Building
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, or related field AND Minimum six (6) years accounting or related business experience. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two (2) years supervisory experience.
• Two (2) years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership.
• Three (3) years audit or accounting firm experience.