Staff Accountant at Affiliates in US-NY-Buffalo

Job description

• Staff Accountant – Corporate Finance
• Elderwood Administrative Services
• Williamsville, NY | Full-Time | Fully Onsite
• Excel Skills Required
• Elderwood Administrative Services is seeking a Staff Accountant with a strong foundation in financial accounting and practical, hands-on Excel skills. This role requires someone who is comfortable working with journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, financial statements, and detailed financial data - not simply someone seeking their first exposure to these concepts.
• Working onsite with our Corporate Finance team, you will support financial operations across a diverse healthcare organization that includes skilled nursing, assisted living, pediatric specialty care, and pharmacy operations. You will have direct exposure to facility leaders, operational partners, and executive leadership while developing a broad understanding of the business behind the numbers.
• Broader business exposure: Support multiple healthcare settings, operating entities, and service lines.
• Meaningful financial work: Prepare and analyze information used by facility leaders and executive leadership.
• Direct collaboration: Work closely with finance colleagues, administrators, and department leaders to understand results and resolve financial questions.
• Professional development: Expand your experience in monthly close, financial reporting, variance analysis, budgeting, audit preparation, and healthcare operations.
• If you are an accounting professional who understands the fundamentals, enjoys working in Excel, and wants broader exposure to the financial and operational sides of a healthcare organization, we invite you to apply.

Responsibilities

• Perform monthly financial accounting and analysis for assigned companies.
• Prepare internal financial statements for operational leaders and external financial statements for lenders.
• Analyze financial performance, including budget variances and month-over-month trends.
• Present monthly operating results and financial insights to facility leadership and the executive team.
• Support the monthly close process for multiple companies, including expense accruals, adjusting entries, and balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Partner with facility administrators and department leaders to review financial reports, budget comparisons, and operating results.
• Assist with annual budget preparation.
• Prepare audit workpapers and supporting schedules for external auditors.
• Contribute to special projects and other financial initiatives as needed.

Requirements

• Qualifications Needed for Success as a Staff Accountant
• Required
• Demonstrated understanding of foundational financial accounting concepts, including debits and credits, journal entries, accrual accounting, account reconciliations, and the relationship among financial statements.
• Practical experience supporting monthly close and preparing or reviewing journal entries and balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Strong working proficiency with Microsoft Office 365, with heavy use of Excel.
• Ability to use Excel to organize and analyze financial information, including formulas, sorting and filtering, pivot tables, and lookup functions.
• Ability to review financial results, identify discrepancies, investigate underlying causes, and communicate findings clearly.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and follow-through.
• Ability to explain financial information clearly to both accounting and operational partners.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fully onsite corporate environment.
• Experience with accounting or enterprise financial software.
• Experience with Sage Intacct and/or Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains.

Skills

Required

• Financial accounting
• Excel
• Microsoft Office 365
• Journal entries
• Accrual accounting
• Account reconciliations
• Financial statements
• Budget variance analysis
• Audit preparation
• Attention to detail
• Communication
• Collaboration

Preferred

• Accounting software
• Enterprise financial software
• Sage Intacct
• Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains