Senior Accountant

Howard Brown Health•Chicago, IL

13d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Accountant role assists the department with the organization's accounting and auditing functions. These functions include maintaining the organization's accounting principles, practices, and procedures. Assists with the preparation of financial operating reports along with positive and effective communication of financial information with Howard Brown staff. The Senior Accountant role should be familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. This position requires experience and judgment to plan and accomplish organizational goals and objectives. The Senior Accountant role with oversight from the Assistant Controller assists with the treasury, accounting, auditing, budget, grant reporting, tax, risk management, internal controls and audit functions of Howard Brown.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with at least 3 years of experience in accounting with demonstrable progression into higher levels of responsibility
Detailed knowledge of G.A.A.P. for non-profit and/or healthcare organizations
Experience with accounting and budgeting software systems including Excel, Powerpoint and Word.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Nice To Haves

Financial Edge experience preferred
CPA licensure
Experience working in an LGBT organization/with the LGBT community; and a community health care organization
Ability to work in a team environment

Responsibilities

Responsible for monthly close process of assigned general ledger accounts and along with assisting the Assistant Controller with the preparation of accurate and timely monthly interim financial statements.
Prepares journal entries to support the monthly close process.
Performs monthly and quarterly account reconciliation for all assigned accounts. Also maintains sub-ledger detail for assigned accounts.
Responsible for providing support in preparing the annual operating budget as well as grants and contract budgets.
Responsible for completion of the daily and monthly cash reconciliations, additions, disposals and depreciation of fixed assets, recording of clinical trial revenue and receipts, loan recording/reconciliation to amortization schedules, recording of patient A/R charges, payments and adjustments, and the monthly recording of prepaid and accrued expenses.
Under the direction of the Assistant Controller, provides ad hoc financial analysis to support agency’s goals and initiatives.
Responsible for divisional reporting on a monthly basis to be used by senior management for decision making.
In collaboration with the Assistant Controller, the position is responsible for supporting financial audits, including preparation of prepared by client (PBC) work papers and communication with external auditors during audit process.
Responsible for recording all revenues to ensure they are properly accrued and recognized, along with preparing the A/R aging as part of monthly close process.
Responsible for preparation of grant and contract vouchering for submission to the cognizant funding sources, sending out variance reports to programmatic staff after the close each month, and programmatic discussions between contract and grant accountants and program staff to review monthly financials after monthly close.
Responsible for the ongoing reconciliation of federally funded projects.
Accountable for ensuring that policies and procedures (internal controls) are in place to provide reasonable assurance that company assets are protected.
Coordinates and oversees activities relative to internal controls documentation and testing and segregation of duties.
Ensures that company financial records, under responsibility, are maintained in compliance with company accounting policies and procedures and U.S. G.A.A.P.
Performs other duties as required.
Cross trains on all accounting functions to serve as backup resource.

Benefits

Employer-sponsored health, dental, and vision insurance with two PPO plans and an HMO plan
BCBS HMO, PPO, and PPO Select Plans
BCBS Dental
BCBS Vision
3-weeks paid vacation and 1-week of personal time
12 accrued sick days per year
10 paid holidays, including Juneteenth
PTO Exchange allows employees to turn unused PTO into liquid assets
401k program with up to 5% employer match after 90 days
Employer-paid basic life insurance valued at one times the annual salary
Voluntary Life and AD&D, and Short-term and Long-term disability
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefit account
Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
Tuition Reimbursement and Student Loan Forgiveness Programs; NHSC & PSLF
Employee Assistance Program with 5 employer-paid counseling sessions
50% off at Brown Elephant Resale Shops and discounts at local businesses