Senior Accountant-General Accounting-Full Time, Days

The Senior Accountant performs professional accounting duties related to all matters finance, including financial review, forecasting and providing all requested data analytics.   Gathers data and prepares a number of accounting/finance-related reports and summaries.

• Prepares, examines, or analyzes accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards. 
   
• Advises on accounting problems and assists subordinate employees with work.
   
• Performs maintenance of General Ledger to make sure all the errors are corrected timely for the month-end close.  Reviews monthly financial ledgers of assigned accounts. 
   
• Performs monthly bank reconciliations and analysis.
   
• Reconciliation of the fixed asset ledger and depreciation analysis.  Reviews any discrepancies between budgeted and forecasted amounts.
   
• As applicable to area, monitors Capital Projects budgets for the School, FPA or Hospital, including budget setup forms and various adjustments.
   
• Reviews capital project management charges.
   
• Performs monthly Capital Budget Report and details summary.
   
• Performs analysis and monitors Capital Software projects.
   
• Maintenance of the intercompany advances and related interest charges
   
• Calculation/accounting for capitalized interest, capital leases and deferred financing charges.
   
• Reviews escrow accounts and maintains justification for drawdowns.
   
• Prepares journal entries and reviews to ensure accuracy of figures.
   
• Maintains budgeting systems which provide controls for expenditures.  Reports to management regarding the finances of department.
   
• Oversees compliance reporting with primary lenders on a quarterly basis.
   
• Analyzes “all in” cost of capital in debt financing, involving a degree of monitoring of commercial paper rates and various banking fees which fluctuate on a periodic basis.
   
• Assists with the Financial Results Package preparation and produces various analyses. 
   
• Performs other related duties.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Master’s preferred
• Experience: 2+ years' experience in Accounting. Big 4 experience a plus. CPA a plus