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Senior Accountant

DCH Health System
DCH Health System Salary
Tuscaloosa, AL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/22/2024
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/10/2025

Overview

The senior accountant is responsible for working on all aspects of the accounting function including but not limited to revenue recognition, expense entries, A/R analysis, and month-end closing, analysis and reporting. The Senior Accountant will remain current with all GAAP and GASB requirements while assisting with financial compliance.  Key functions of the staff accountant will include regulatory accounting entries, special government reporting requirements, capital and fixed assets.

Responsibilities

  • Perform pre-close and month-end close processes to generate financial reports. 
  • Performs various account reconciliations, works to resolve discrepancies and performs analytics reporting variances or potential concerns to the System Director of Finance.
  • Prepare monthly financial analyses and schedules as requested.
  • Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual journal entries and account reconciliations for assigned accounts, ensuring all activity is recorded, adjustments are calculated and corrections are made timely and accurately.
  • Provide detailed analysis of various general ledger accounts and selected cost centers as assigned to analyze trends, identify variances and make recommendations for change.
  • Prepare various financial and statistical reports for the month-end financial close process, quarterly reviews and year-end financial audit reporting while also reviewing reports for quality, accuracy, completeness and reasonableness.
  • Recommends actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses while studying proposed methods and material changes.
  • Assist with both internal and external audits by providing documentation related to processes.  
  • Assists in the preparation of budget calculations related to depreciation, fixed assets and leases. 
  • Prepares all leases following GASB 87 requirements. 
  • Completes the GASB 96 accounting journals and is responsible for identifying and reviewing contracts to ensure proper accounting processes are completed. 
  • The senior accountant will perform monthly operating reviews with the department managers to assist with recommendations on improving margins. 
  • Secondary contact for departments for capital-related requirements and reporting within the department.
  • Prepares depreciation entries by utilizing the American Hospital Association guidelines for estimating useful lives.
  • Seeks to advance knowledge and bring efficiency to processes.
  • Displays good communication and presentation skills.
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    DCH Standards:

    • Maintains performance, patient and employee satisfaction and financial standards as outlined in the performance evaluation.
    • Performs compliance requirements as outlined in the Employee Handbook
    • Must adhere to the DCH Behavioral Standards, including creating positive relationships with patients/families, coworkers, colleagues, and self.
    • Performs essential job functions in a manner that ensures the safety of patients, visitors and employees.
    • Identifies and reduces unsafe practices that may result in harm to patients, visitors and employees.
    • Recognizes and takes appropriate action to reduce risks and hazards to promote safety for patients, visitors and employees.
    • Requires use of electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software and intranet.
    • Must adhere to all DCH Health System policies and procedures.
    • All other duties as assigned.

    Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Business Administration Degree with a major in accounting, finance or business required. Two to four years of accounting experience is required.  Advanced Excel skills are required. CPA preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of accounting principles, practices, standards, laws and regulations. Understanding of GAAP and GASB accounting standards. 
  • Exceptional attention to detail and strong time management skills.
  • Strong analytical, mathematical and report writing skills.
  • Must be proficient with Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Must be able to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English.
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    WORKING CONDITIONS

     

    WORK CONTEXT

    Communication through talking, expressing and exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.  Hearing; perceiving the nature of sounds by the ear in order to communicate.  Seeing; use of vision to determine characteristics of objects, depth perception, color vision with the ability to distinguish color, coding on ledgers, near/far activity 100% daily.

    Ability to figure complex computations and communicate these figures to the public.

    Mental capability to maintain patient confidentiality 100% of the time.

     

    PHYSICAL FACTORS

    • Working indoors in a cubical area, sitting 80% of the time, standing 5%, kneeling 2.5%, squatting/crouching 2.5%, stooping 5%, and walking 5%.  Activities include lifting of 35 lbs. maximum which would be a two (2) man lift, frequent lifting and/or carrying 20 lbs. occasionally.  Ability to push or pull over carpet floors, concrete ramps and on varied surfaces, a four wheel cart with 50 lbs. of paperwork.
    • Filing ledgers or finding ledgers requires reaching, pushing, pulling, extending the hands and arms in any direction.  Stooping and bending the body forward by bending the spine at the waist.  To reach lower areas requires kneeling by bending the legs at the knee of crouching by bending the body downward and/or forward by bending the legs and spine.  This is 50% of daily work.
    • Organizing charts requires handling of papers by holding, grasping and turning, with picking up and pinching as finger movements.  This is a repetitious procedure that is constantly being done.
    • Must be able to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
    • Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range.
    • Position is hybrid and allows for remote work capabilities.   

     

    OTHER JOB FACTORS

     

    Job requires orientation to detail, accountability and ability to interact with customers when the communication may be discourteous or unpleasant.

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