Job Description
Job Description
Job Title: Staff Accountant
Reports To: Director of Finance
Job Summary: This position ensures the accuracy of financial reporting and assist in maintaining financial records.
Qualifications and Requirements:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Job duties may be modified at any time based on business needs.
Essential Job Duties:
- Maintains and records accounting transactions for payroll, service billings, lease/rent billings, pharmacy operations, clinical operations, administrative operations, and grants.
- Maintains customer and General Ledger (GL) account setup.
- Performs monthly bank/GL reconciliations and other reconciliations as required.
- Prepares financial and operating reports such as trial balances, adjustments, closing entries, analysis and interpretation of accounting records.
- Assists in the preparation of the annual budget.
- Participates in monthly and fiscal year closing processes.
- Assists in preparing grant budgets, tracks and reconciles grants and completes grant progress reports.
- Performs grant drawdowns as required.
- Performs routine internal compliance audits of financial procedures of all departments as requested by Senior Staff Accountant or designee.
- Ensures that financial records and procedures comply with applicable funding and governmental agencies' requirements, generally accepted accounting principles and CCHCI policies and procedures.
- Assists external auditors in completing the annual audit and other reviews, as necessary.
- Performs other related duties as assigned or required. This job description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of this position but may not be an all-inclusive list.
Required Minimum Qualifications - Education, Experience, Certificates & Licenses:
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance related field required.
- Two or more years of experience demonstrating a strong understanding of accounting processes and principles.
- Participates in training and education programs to maintain professional competence and skills.
Preferred Qualifications - Education, Experience, Certificates & Licenses:
- Experience with grant revenue recognition or fund accounting preferred.
Required Language Skills:
- Ability to comprehend and compose effective instructions, correspondence and communications in English in both oral and written format.
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to occasionally exert enough force to move objects weighing up to 10 pounds.
- Ability to continuously remain in a stationary position.
- Ability to occasionally move about inside the workplace to access files, office machinery, etc.
- Possesses hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to constantly operate computer, telephone, and other office machinery.
- Possesses close visual acuity necessary to accurately record and view information on a computer monitor, handwritten and typed documents.
- Ability to discern the nature of sounds at a normal spoken volume.
Other Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Demonstrated aptitude in basic accounting.
- Ability to employ statistical / mathematical methods to collect and analyze data and develop solutions.
- Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret graphs.
- Ability to perform a variety of assignments and make decisions requiring independent judgment.
- Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.
- Knowledge of community health centers preferred.
- Expert knowledge of accounting practices and principles.
- Computer literacy required with proficiency in use of Microsoft Office programs and accounting software.
- Knowledge of Peachtree and NextGen software preferred.
- Proficiency in Excel spreadsheets with specific ability to create and edit Pivot tables and graphs required.
- Knowledge of programming, report writer software, and adobe standard strongly preferred.
- Ability to prioritize and plan work activities and use time efficiently.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Work Environment & Conditions:
- The work environment is typical of an administrative office setting with no substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions.
- Work occasionally requires extended hours to include evenings and weekends.
- Work requires the ability to be contacted by cell phone during or outside of regular work hours.
- Position can be remote hybrid.