Staff Accountant

Title: Staff Accountant (Contract)- Job#5660

Location: Boston, MA/Hybrid Remote (2 days onsite)

Job Description

Our client located in Boston has an immediate opening for a Staff Accountant to join their team. Under the direction of the Accounting Management Team, the Staff Accountant is responsible for preparing numerous journal entries and general ledger reconciliations including intercompany transactions for the monthly financial close, ensuring all monthly close activities are completed in a timely manner. Additionally, this position performs financial trend analyses, assists in abandoned property filings, prepares various treasury functions including creating intercompany invoices and wire transfers, and supports Accounting Supervisory and Accounting Manager in annual audit requests.

Responsibilities

• In conjunction with various clinical and non-clinical departments, prepare standard/adhoc journal entries including intercompany journal entries for clinical departments and Corporate as a part of the monthly close
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations for clinical departments including but not limit to cash, accounts payable/accruals, prepaids, other assets, other liabilities
• Reconcile and analyze monthly patient and non-patient cash posted to the G/L as a part of the monthly cash reconciliation process. This includes recording all non-patient activity identified through the cash log reconciliation
• Reconcile monthly payroll G/L interface to external invoice files by clinical department
• Analyze revenue and expense trends for the Clinical departments and Corporate to help understand financial performance including recording any adjusting journal entries identified during review. This also includes providing trend/variance explanations to management for monthly financial close meetings
• Work closely with Finance team to compile and prepare quarterly financial workbooks with supporting financial analysis detail; distribute monthly financial statements including related workbooks to clinical departments
• Coordinate with clinical departments to obtain supporting documentation to create non-patient accounts receivable billing invoices and apply cash collected to related outstanding invoices
• Prepare monthly intercompany invoices which includes compiling and analyzing the activity paid by Corporate and charged back to each clinical department
• Utilize BOA Cash Pro to download bank statement activity and initiate all monthly, quarterly, and annual wires
• Complete quarterly payroll audit analysis to ensure employees are paid from only one payroll
• Assist the Senior accountant in annual abandoned property filing
• Support the Accounting Supervisor and Accounting Manager in annual audit requests
• Prepare ad-hoc financial analyses/projects as requested by Accounting Management Team
• Promotes open communication, team building efforts and collaboration among team members and between departments
• Participates in employee training; actively promotes knowledge sharing within the department
• Utilizes hospital’s Values as the basis for decision making and to facilitate the hospital’s mission
  
  

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Minimum of 1-3 years of professional experience is required
• Strong accounting knowledge with the ability to apply GAAP principles
• Computer software experience on both a General Ledger System (G/L Lawson/Infor preferred) as well as comparable spreadsheet and word processing software (Microsoft Office Word and Excel) including the ability to understand the Lawson Accounting System
• Solid communication skills to interact effectively with a number of parties outside the Corporate department which include clinical departments, Account payable, Treasury, and Accounting
• Ability to follow directions, organize information of material for others, complete assignments as requested, ask clarifying questions to ensure understanding when needed, verify information/work and check for accuracy
• Sets up procedures to ensure high quality of work, approach tasks with “can do’ attitude, proven time management abilities, multitasking with effective priority definition, adheres to deadlines for assigned tasks
• Complete assigned tasks without follow-up from supervisor, overcomes minor process changes to still complete task
  
  

About Delphi-US

Delphi-US is a national recruiting firm based in Newport, Rhode Island. We specialize in IT, Engineering and Professional Staffing services for organizations across the United States of America. Our mission is simple: We are Peacemakers in the Talent War. Delphi attracts our nation’s best and brightest Technical & Professional Talent and position our nation’s finest employers to further their competitive advantages. We accomplish this with a proprietary skill-based and cultural matching process that results in higher qualified submissions, hiring with purpose, and employer/employee mutual success. You’ll find our team is supremely experienced, friendly, professional and ready to advocate on your behalf. Armed with best in class talent, Delphi has an indelible understanding of employer expectations and we deliver lasting results.