Senior Accountant

Position Summary

Under direction, performs a variety of professional level accounting duties involved in preparing, maintaining, analyzing, verifying, and reconciling complex financial transactions, statements, records, and reports; maintains the accuracy of the agency’s ledgers, financial systems; assists in the preparation and reconciliation of assigned reports, annual audit, and year end closing.

• Perform daily activities such as receive checks, post receipts and prepare deposits; review and post payable invoices; review and post tenant billing adjustments; review and post prepayment application to open charges; update gross sales reports.
• Monthly accounting close process, including recordation of monthly operational activity.
• Monthly preparation of schedules to support the balance sheet and income recordation.
• Record monthly rental income, ancillary income, and reconcile cash receipts.
• Prepare monthly bank reconciliations.
• Record and amortize prepaid items such as insurance, loan fees and deferred income.
• Maintain fixed assets, calculate and record monthly depreciation and amortization expense.
• Works with Controller to determine most effective procedures and drafts accounting & finance policies and procedures. As appropriate assists in the implementation of such policies and procedures.
• Reconcile security deposits to the subsidiary ledger monthly.
• Accrue all property taxes, which includes understanding how property taxes are calculated.
• Record debt service monthly, including principal amortization, interest expense, escrow accounts.
• Understand how to analyze and record bad debt expenses and prepaid rent.
• Record payroll semi-monthly.
• Record monthly accrued liabilities, including utility expenses, debt service, etc.
• Record management fee expenses, asset management fees, and other G&A expenses monthly.
• Work with Controller for proper capitalization of fixed assets and operational expenses.
• Conduct monthly comparison of income and expenses to budget with follow-up and explanations for significant variances.
• Complete analysis of financial data and assist with ad-hoc projects.
• Prepare monthly financial statement reporting for investors and lenders.
• Monthly forecasting of income, expenses, and cash flow analysis.
• Quarterly consolidation of financial data.
• Prepare the annual budget.
• Assist with annual audit with outside auditors.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Ensure financial records are maintained in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Practices (GAAP) and agency policies and procedures.
• Develops and maintains job appropriate skills and knowledge of Federal, State, Local, laws, through seminars, publications, workshops or other forms of training/education.

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting.
• 5+ years of Accounting experience; candidate must show strong recent experience.
• 3+ years of multi-site healthcare experience.
• Intercompany accounting experience.
• A working knowledge of federal and State payroll and tax laws and regulations, and basic accounting principles.
• Strong personal computer skills including data entry, transmission of data, formatting of routine accounting reports, preparation of spreadsheets, and word processing.
• Ability to calculate accurately and efficiently, including ten-key skills by touch.
• Ability to be flexible and work in a changing environment.
• Effective communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to work independently and make mature business decisions.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office systems.
• Yardi Voyager is the accounting system and experience is optional, but preferred.
• Ability and willingness to report to work on time and ready for work on each scheduled day.
• Exceptional analytical skills.
• Exceptional ability to prioritize tasks and to work on multiple assignments at the same time (multi-task).
• Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the concepts of providing outstanding customer care.
• Ability to work independently on complex assignments.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to make decisions independently and communicate effectively when dealing with clients,…