Senior Accountant

Position Title: Senior Accountant

Reports To: VP, Controller

Division: Shared Services

Department: Finance

Classification: Exempt 

Places of Work: Hybrid

People Leader: No

About the Organization: 

Equality Health is an integrated, holistic, and tech-enabled healthcare delivery system focused on improving the health and wellness of diverse populations. Founded in 2015, Equality Health aims to improve access to value-based care for people who have long struggled with navigating the traditional one-size-fits-all U.S. healthcare system. The mission of the company is to provide high-quality care that improves and enhances lives regardless of race, ethnicity, age, or income.

Through its supplemental care management services and proprietary technology platform, CareEmpower™, Equality Health helps managed care plans and health systems improve outcomes and lower costs for diverse populations while simultaneously facilitating the transition to risk-based accountability. Equality Health supports over 800,000 members and more than 4,000 practice sites and continues to scale rapidly.

In 2021, Equality Health partnered with General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, to help drive continued expansion and fuel the next phase of growth as a leading value-based primary care network serving the Medicaid, Medicare and ACA Exchange populations. This strategic investment will enable Equality Health to pursue further geographic expansion, technological innovation and product development while furthering its mission of increasing access to care, lowering costs and improving outcomes for underserved individuals, families and communities.

About the Role:

The Senior Accountant is primarily responsible for corporate accounting operations, including but not limited to treasury, tax, accounts receivable, audit, and month-end close related responsibilities. This role is primarily remote; however, candidates must reside within a reasonable commuting distance to our headquarters to support occasional onsite collaboration and team activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare support and enter general journal entries; participate in the monthly close process including variance reporting
• Collaborate with business leaders and management on a variety of accounting centric projects
• Participate with Accounting, Finance, and Analytics on understanding and organizing information
• Proactively interact with other functions and personnel as part of the Equality Health Team
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations and timely research and correct reconciliation variances
• Produce customer billing statements; track accounts receivable; ensure cash receipts are applied to the correct account
• Create detailed standard operating procedures
• Ensure that account data are complete and accurate
• Support financial statement audits through preparing and providing audit requests
• Identify and implement process improvements in areas of ownership or as work is completed cross functionally with team members
• Assist with ad hoc reporting and other duties as assigned 
• May be required to work overtime or outside of traditional business hours

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; or, an equivalent combination of education and/or experience 
• Minimum seven (5) years of work experience in a directly related position in a corporate accounting setting
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and web-based technologies
• Proven ability to manage highly confidential and sensitive information, especially in the areas of payroll and financial data
• Demonstrated experience and success in a role that requires accuracy and attention to detail
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills, including the ability to systematically analyze problems, draw relevant conclusions and devise appropriate courses of action
• Able to convey complex or technical information in a manner that others can understand and understand and interpret complex information from others
• Naturally curious and enjoys process improvements

Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

• Healthcare industry experience or health plan exposure
• Public accounting experience and/or CPA
• Experience working in a multi entity, multi state environment
• Successful record of managing multiple projects with demonstrated ability to work independently in rapidly-changing environments 
• Be flexible, adaptive and have fun
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills; able to work with all levels in the organization

Equality Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.