Accountant

Austin Regional Clinic: ARC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

PTO

401(k)

Tuition Reimbursement

Life Insurance

Long Term Disability

Health & Fitness

Job summary

Austin Regional Clinic (ARC) is seeking a qualified accountant to establish and maintain GAAP accrual-based financial statements and internal controls. You will manage journal entries, reconcile ledgers, and generate timely financial reports in a multi-location healthcare setting.

Required: Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance with 2+ years of experience; strong Excel, Access, and Oracle skills; experience with GAAP and internal controls is preferred.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, or finance with two or more years of accounting experience.
• Preferred: Experience working in accounting for a multi-specialty, physician owned practice.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP and internal controls.

Responsibilities

• Creates and maintains spreadsheets to support journal entries to the general or subsidiary ledgers.
• Reviews general ledger trial balance monthly for accuracy and makes corrections as needed.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements and other reports as specified.
• Reconciles general ledger accounts and ensures data integrity and proper coding.

Skills

Excel (Advanced)

Access

PowerPoint

OneNote

Accounting principles

Oracle knowledge

Data analysis

Teamwork

Communication

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, or finance

High School Diploma with 4+ years accounting experience

Tools

Oracle

Excel

Access

PowerPoint

OneNote

Job description

Austin Regional Clinic has been voted a top Central Texas employer by our employees for over 15 years! We are one of central Texas’ largest professional medical groups with 35+ locations and we are continuing to grow.

We offer the following benefits to eligible team members:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• PTO
• 401(k)
• EAP
• Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Child Care Assistance
• Health & Fitness
• Sick Child Care Assistance
• Development and more

For additional information visit https://www.austinregionalclinic.com/careers/

Job Details

Purpose

To establish and/ or maintain the organization’s accounting principles, practices, procedures and internal controls to ensure the generation of GAAP accrual based financial statements. Carries out all duties while maintaining compliance and confidentiality and promoting the mission and philosophy of the organization.

Accounting

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Creates and or maintains spreadsheets and/or other required work papers to support journal entries to the general or subsidiary ledgers.
• Organizes and coordinates the posting of entries to the general and subsidiary ledgers within the specified department timeline in order to ensure accurate financials.
• Reviews the general ledger trial balance monthly for accuracy and reasonableness and takes appropriate action to make corrections, if required.
• Reviews existing procedures for recording financial transactions to determine propriety and methods of reducing time and cost of the general ledger accounting operations.
• Reviews financial statements to ensure accuracy.
• Ensures proper coding of invoices to support GAAP financials, various Enterprise Accounting Reporting (EAR) initiatives, and compliance with various management service agreements.

Reporting

• Generates accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements and other reports as specified.
• Distributes financial information in accordance with distribution list.
• Provides special reports as required.
• Provides written monthly analysis of cost trends within specified department timelines.

Reconciling

• Reconciles the general ledger control accounts to the subsidiary ledger’s balance in accordance with the department’s specified timeline.
• Reviews, examines and approves entries posted to subsidiary and general ledgers for accuracy and compliance with established accounting policies and procedures.
• Performs independent research into errors in coding to various accounts monthly and develops correcting entries as needed.
• Reconciles accounts in accordance with established deadlines as assigned.
• Collaborates with internal and external team members to obtain information required to understand the underlying data, impact on each company, and to reconcile accounts, communicating findings and future impact/needs to other team members as needed.
• Ensures data accurately flows through assigned accounts to ensure data integrity and impact of data utilization downstream (allocations, EAR, tax, etc.).

Taxes

• Ensures Texas sales and use tax on all purchases has been properly accrued, if applicable.
• Prepares required tax schedules for the internal tax department and outside tax firm to allow for accurate and timely preparation of quarterly tax estimates and tax returns.

Other

• Prepares audit schedules in support of the annual audit in accordance with scheduled timeline.
• Assists in identifying and resolving potential internal control issues.
• Writes accounting and computer operating procedures using established accounting principles, theories, concepts and practices.
• Makes recommendations to finance leadership for the continuous refinement of accounting procedures.
• Maintains policy and procedure documentation and provides training.
• Works collaboratively with other team members, providing guidance and assistance.
• Adheres to all company policies, including but not limited to, OSHA, HIPAA, compliance and Code of Conduct.
• Regular and dependable attendance.
• Follows the core competencies set forth by the Company, which are available for review on ARC SharePoint.

Other Duties And Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Required: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, or finance with two (2) or more years of experience in accounting, OR High School Diploma or equivalent with four (4) or more years of experience in accounting.

Preferred: Experience working in accounting for a multi-specialty, physician owned practice.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Working knowledge of data flowing through assigned accounts
• Working knowledge of building complex spreadsheets using advance Excel formulas and functions.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Access queries and parameters.
• Working knowledge of Power Point and One Note.
• Working knowledge of accounting principles and practices.
• Working knowledge of Oracle preferred.
• Strong understanding of the allocation process as well as the data (coding) that drives the GAAP/ EAR allocations to ensure allocation results are accurate and in line with financial reporting goals of the organization.
• Strong understanding of the data and the flow of data throughout the organization. There are multiple entities, multiple data sources and multiple systems- each of these must be well understood in order to be successful in this position.
• Advanced Access and Excel skills.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Excellent interpersonal & problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to engage others, listen and adapt response to meet others’ needs.
• Ability to align own actions with those of other team members committed to common goals.
• Excellent computer and keyboarding skills, including familiarity with Windows.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to perform job duties in a professional manner at all times.
• Ability to understand, recall, and communicate, factual information.
• Ability to understand, recall, and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information.
• Ability to organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology.
• Ability to apply common sense in performing job.
• Skill in analyzing and interpreting financial records.

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