Sr Accountant

Insight Global; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

MedStar Health is seeking a Senior Accountant to lead month-end close, financial reporting, reconciliations, and analysis across healthcare units. This role reviews staff work, supports audits, and drives process improvements for timely, accurate reporting.

The position leads a team under an Accounting Manager, focusing on GAAP compliance, cross-unit coordination, and robust financial analysis for management and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 4+ years of accounting experience.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP.
• Month-end close experience.
• Journal entries and account reconciliations.
• Financial statement preparation and review.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze trial balance for errors to report accurate financial position.
• Provide internal financial statements to manager and division heads.
• Assist in training, orienting, and developing staff accountants; set performance standards.
• Document accounting policies and procedures in writing and ensure accessibility.
• Contribute to achieving department goals while complying with policies and standards.
• Coordinate with internal teams and auditors; support annual and interim audits.

Skills

Strong written and verbal comms

Advanced Excel skills

GAAP knowledge

Month-end close experience

Journal entries & reconciliations

Financial statement prep & review

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance or related field

Tools

PeopleSoft

Microsoft Access

PowerPoint

Job description

Proficiency

Job Title: Senior Accountant

Remote Job

Shift Time : 5:30 PM to 3:00 AM (Night Shift)

Ability to work 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM EST

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Accountant will serve as a lead contributor within the accounting team, owning critical aspects of the month-end close process, financial reporting, reconciliations, and financial analysis. This individual will review the work of Staff Accountants, support audit activities, identify process improvements, and help ensure accurate and timely financial reporting across multiple healthcare business units.

Leads/supervises a team of accountants under the direction of an Accounting Manager to provide generalized accounting and finance support on the coordination and completion of financial reporting within MedStar's various business units. Supported business units include acute care community hospitals, academic hospitals with extensive residency programs, research programs, and academic affiliations, post-acute care providers, physician groups, and specialized allied healthcare providers.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• 4+ years of accounting experience
• Strong knowledge of GAAP
• Month-end close experience
• Journal entries and account reconciliations
• Financial statement preparation and review
• Advanced Excel skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

1. Accountable for analyzing trial balance for errors and omissions in order to report business units financial position accurately.

2. Accountable for providing internal financial statements to manager and other financial staff as well as division heads.

3. Assists in training, orienting, and developing staff accountants. Develops standards of performance and accounting practices for staff, evaluates performance within the prescribed time frame, and conducts performance management planning.

4. Communicates accounting policies and procedures effectively to all tiers of management and effectively documents these procedures in writing.

5. Contributes to the achievement of established department goals and objectives and adheres to department policies, procedures, quality standards, and safety standards. Complies with governmental and accreditation regulations.

6. Critically analyses submitted data for completeness, accuracy, reasonableness, and incorporation of corporate initiatives.

7. Identifies accounting issues in the performance of duties. Recommends process improvements to department management.

8. Participates in meetings and on committees and represents the department and MedStar in community outreach efforts as required.

9. Performs monthly analytical review of income statement to actual to budget analysis and trend analysis for managers review.

10. Remains current on the latest relevant accounting and healthcare issues, including governmental regulations and procedures.

11. Responsible for compiling reconciliations and ad-hoc requests for the external auditors during the annual and interim audits.

12. Responsible for directing the month-end close function for their assigned team. 13. Responsible for reviewing all activity in balance sheet accounts as prepared by staff accountants on a monthly basis.

14. Responsible for reviewing all monthly closing entries consisting of standard prepaid entries, accrual entries, and other types of entries from assigned business unit on a monthly basis as prepared by staff accountants.

15. Reviews monthly account reconciliations and account analysis, prepared by staff accountants. 16.Works with staff accountants to develop and attain annual performance goals. Conducts mid-year and annual performance reviews of staff accountants

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• CPA or actively pursuing CPA
• Healthcare accounting experience
• Multi-entity accounting experience
• PeopleSoft
• Audit support experience
• Budget-to-actual and trend analysis
• Team lead or mentoring experience
• Grants accounting experience

Process improvement initiatives

Education

Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.

Work Experience

Experience

Experience Details

Required

3-4 years

4 years accounting or financial analysis in a public or private accounting setting, preferably in a multi-entity setting.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Technical knowledge of GAAP.

Ability to apply accounting guidance.

Knowledge of accounting systems and ERP systems, PeopleSoft preferred.

Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel with the ability to summarize a significant amount of data accurately, perform various data-mining tasks and ad-hoc reporting for senior management.

Working knowledge of Microsoft Access and PowerPoint applications.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate timely and effectively with various levels inside and outside of the organization.

Works effectively in a complex and fast paced corporate culture and shared services environment.

Ability to multi-task and prioritize all assigned tasks in an effective manner.

Licenses and Certifications

Licenses/Certification Details

Required/ Preferred

CPA (Certified Public Accountant) certification-- Preferred

working towards CPA license--Preferred