Accountant

“Sanitas is a global healthcare organization expanding across the United States. Our services include primary care, urgent care, nutrition, lab, diagnostic, health care education and resources for our patients. We strive to attract professionals who believe in our mission, vision and are dedicated to the service of our patients and their families creating a memorable experience through compassion, respect, and kindness.”

Job Summary

The Accountant is responsible for applying accepted accounting principles and procedures to analyze financial information, prepare accurate and timely financial reports/statements and ensure appropriate accounting control procedures. They communicate accounting policy and make recommendations regarding the accounting treatment of financial transactions, as well as assists in development of new systems, procedures and controls.

Essential Job Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Provides financial information to management and other departments by researching and  analyzing accounting data and preparing reports.
• Prepares asset, liability, and capital account entries by compiling and analyzing account information; documents financial transactions by entering account information. 
• Documents financial transactions by entering account information.
• Prepares multiple accounts reconciliation.
• Collaborates and provides support for budget preparation and financial forecasting. Does periodic financial analysis reports on the business.
• Summarizes current financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other reports.
• Reconciles financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information.
• Maintains financial security by following internal controls.
• Answers accounting procedure questions by researching and interpreting accounting policy and regulations.
• Complies with governmental financial legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions.
• Keeps abreast of professional/regulatory trends and changes in order to assess applicability to JV objectives and to identify potential for impacting/improving existing systems and services. 
• Prepares special financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends.
• Assists in preparing multiple external audits, tax returns, and other filings.
• Makes professional judgments concerning practical interpretations of GAAP and IFRS standards in unusual and/or straightforward cases and recommends actions when specific situations require difficult interpretation. 
• Develops recommendations that fit particular situations given that there may be a variety of solutions and effectively presents alternative solutions and/or critical findings to management. 
• Analyzes function/department operations for impact on the accounting or reporting systems.  
• Other job assignments, projects and duties assigned as necessary to enhance the finance department.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration.

Required Experience

• At least four (4) years of corporate accounting experience.

Required Licenses and Certifications

• N/A

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of healthcare accounting, including background in medical and/or insurance billing.
• Strong math skills.
• Knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS.
• Intermediate to advanced computers skills required in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Any combination of education, training, and experience which demonstrates the ability to perform the duties and responsibilities as described including related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master of Business Administration or Healthcare Administration preferred.
• CPA certification preferred.
• Relevant or any other job-related vocational coursework preferred.

Financial Responsibilities

Budget Responsibilities

Languages

Travel

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to work standing up, walk, use hands to operate tools and equipment and must be able to exert regularly up to 10 pounds of force, frequently exert 30 pounds of force and occasionally exert 50 pounds of force to constantly perform the essential job functions. The employee will be frequently required to reach with hands and arms, bend, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl, push, and pull. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Environmental Conditions

Inside: The employee is subject to environmental conditions, protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The worker is subject to noise; there may be sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level.

Physical/Environmental Activities

Please indicate with an X the frequency for the activities that apply to the essential functions of the job based on the chart below. Please select Not Required for physical demands that aren’t essential to job performance.