Intermediate Accountant

North Mississippi Medical Center, Inc; Tupelo (MS); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

North Mississippi Health Services is seeking an Intermediate Accountant to analyze financial statements, maintain the general ledger and asset register, and generate insightful reports for leadership and the Board.

You will collaborate with IT on complex transactions, support budgeting and month-end close, assist auditors, and provide accurate cash, AR, and cost analyses to improve departmental financial performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP and financial reporting.
• Experience with audit support and financial analyses.
• Proficiency with ERP/financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial statements and report to leadership.
• Maintain general ledger and asset register.
• Prepare monthly income statements and balance sheets.
• Support budgeting and variance analysis.
• Assist auditors with documentation and requests.
• Collaborate with IT on complex transactions.
• Monitor cash flow and AR analyses.
• Provide salary and cost analyses by department.

Skills

PeopleSoft

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Time management

Cross-department collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

PeopleSoft

EPSi

Excel

APIs

Job description

We believe a career is more than just a career - it's a calling. Our teammates' "True North" is what calls them to health care; it's their passion. At North Mississippi Health Services, we believe in helping you leverage and connect that passion with a much greater purpose that impacts people you know and love.

Department: 24009010 Accounting Services

Work Shift: M-F 8-4:30

Job Description

The Intermediate Accountant at North Mississippi Health Services is responsible for conducting analysis and managing complex data to ensure timely and accurate accounting and generation of financial insights. This role collaborates with the Financial Reporting Manager and requires an individual with software proficiency as well as strong organizational and communication skills to conduct a range of financial analyses, maintain the general ledger and asset register, generate recurring and ad hoc reporting, provide audit support, assist with budget development, and interface effectively with internal and cross-departmental stakeholders to accurately and effectively track and analyze accounts and support accounting department function and services.

Intermediate Responsibilities

• Conduct in-depth analyzation of financial statements to report to Leadership and Board.
• Evaluate and analyze debt issues.
• Ensure general ledger processing is completed on schedule.
• Monitor investment balances and earnings.
• Take primary responsibility pertaining to cash flow supporting all other companies.
• Take primary responsibility regarding analysis of complicated cash accounts and cash on hand reconciliations.
• Work collaboratively with IT department regarding significant complex transactions and structure.
• Remain responsible for thorough analysis of complex AR and reserve work.
• Contribute to quarterly AR Hindsight analysis.
• Provide significantly more detailed monthly reporting package with deeper needed and expected explanations of variances.
• Remain responsible for specific supply cost per case and drug cost analysis by department.
• Actively participate in creation of detailed salary analysis by department.
• Remain responsible for monitoring and reviewing significantly higher complex prepaids and accruals.

General Accounting/Financial Reporting

• Prepare and record journal entries and outside system activity not automatically interfaced with the general ledger.
• Take primary responsibility for reviewing the general ledger to insure accurate maintenance of the ledger with correct balances.
• Maintain current reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts, including outside A/R systems.
• Take primary responsibility for preparing the monthly income statements (current year-to-date and last year-to-date), the balance sheet, statement of cash flows, stats page and budget variance analysis to be presented to hospital management, senior leadership and the Board of Directors.
• Prepare the AR reserve workpapers and calculations to properly record AR reserves for month end balances.
• Prepare the monthly Allowance and Bad Debt Volume/Mix/Rate analysis that provides some insight as to the changes in monthly Net Revenue.

Periodic/Statistical Reporting

• Remain responsible for collecting data and preparing statistical reports for their assigned companies. This position works with the Decision Support dept as well to keep accurate statistical information in the financial packets.
• Assemble data and prepare special periodic reports such as Sales/Use Tax Returns and Bureau of the Census reports and other special periodic reports as assigned by the manager or director.

Subsidiary Records

• Remain responsible for the maintenance of the major asset register for their assigned companies.

Budget

• Actively participate in the preparation and review of the budget for their assigned companies to assure the timely and satisfactory completion of the budgeting process.

Audit

• Take primary responsibility for assisting internal and external auditors by providing accounting documents to enable the audit to be completed in a timely and efficient manner.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Exhibit proficiency in software to include Peoplesoft, API, EPSi, Excel, data loads between systems, etc.
• Possess working knowledge of general accounting principles as well as various federal and state laws.
• Possess proficient oral & written communication skills.
• Be goal oriented with experience in system and process change.
• Exhibit strong people skills allowing this position to work closely with managers, directors and Senior Leaders.
• Hold primary accountability for the preparation and review of their assigned companies' general ledgers and financial reporting.
• Exercise strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize work to accurately and efficiently complete assignments to meet strict deadlines.
• Efficiently complete assigned responsibilities on schedule within a strict time frame.
• Ensure accurate preparation of journal