Senior Cash Accountant

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

LCMC Health in New Orleans is seeking an experienced Staff Accountant to support cash reconciliations, closing processes, and financial reporting.

You will review daily cash transactions in Workday, prepare journal entries, and assist with budgeting, forecasting, and year-end audit tasks while ensuring internal controls.

Qualifications

• 5 years in an accounting position.
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or related field.
• Excel proficiency and supervisory skills.

Responsibilities

• Review and match cash transactions daily using Workday.
• Reconcile accounts and investigate unreconciled items.
• Prepare journal entries and assist monthly close.
• Prepare Book to Bank Reconciliation schedules.
• Train and review staff accountants; ensure policy compliance.
• Identify process improvements to enhance monthly/quarterly close while maintaining controls.
• Review cash account variances and correct as needed at month end.
• Assist in monthly reporting and ad-hoc requests for the Cash Manager.
• Assist with year-end audit schedules requested by external auditors.
• Assist with annual budget preparation and ongoing forecasting.
• Analyze data to support business decisions, budgeting and forecasting.

Skills

Supervisory skills

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

Workday

Job description

• Excel proficiency

Your job is more than a job

GENERAL DUTIES

• Review and match cash transactions on a daily basis using Workday software.
• Evaluate account balances and reconcile assigned accounts, ensuring unmatched and unreconciled items are investigated and resolved in a timely manner.
• Prepare journal entries and undertake other steps required to ensure a timely Close.
• Prepares and analyzes Book to Bank Reconciliation schedules.
• Train and review work by staff accountants as assigned. Ensure work is in compliance with department policies and processes.
• Proactively identify and implement process improvements to increase the efficiency of the monthly and quarterly close process while maintaining strong internal controls.
• Review and explain cash account variances at month end making necessary corrections as deemed necessary.
• Assist the Cash Manager with monthly reporting requirements and on an ad-hoc basis.
• Assist in the year-end audit process preparing audit schedules requested by the external auditors.
• Assist with annual budget preparation and ongoing forecasting
• Analyzes data to support business decision-making, manages financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting.

Experience Qualifications

• 5 years in an accounting position

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or related field

Skills And Abilities

• Supervisory skills
• Excel proficiency

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

• Does this position formally supervise employees? No

Work Shift

Days (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community.

Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do

You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.