Senior Accountant at Ridgeview in Oak Ridge, TN

Job description

• Title: Senior Accountant
• Location: Oak Ridge, TN
• Extra PRN Pay or Regular: Regular

Responsibilities

• The Senior Accountant’s primary responsibility will be to manage and ensure the integrity of the accounting books and records and to prepare various financial reports for the board, management, program leadership, and outside parties such as federal, state, and other stakeholders. Ridgeview has numerous grants with varying requirements that the Senior Accountant will be responsible for understanding and managing in concert with other accounting team members. The Senior Accountant is responsible for backing up the Controller as necessary.
• Ensures the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating, and entering transactions.
• Prepares and records journal entries for assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenses through analysis of financial activity and supporting documentation.
• Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies.
• Maintains general ledger by transferring subsidiary accounts, preparing a trial balance, and reconciling entries.
• Supports the monthly and year-end close processes, ensuring financial transactions are accurately recorded, and reporting deadlines are met.
• Summarizes financial status by collecting information and preparing balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other documents.
• Completes external audit by analyzing and scheduling general ledger accounts and providing information for auditors.
• Organizes financial information in secure electronic folders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with an accounting concentration required. Three or more years’ hands-on experience and knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) are required, preferably in a hospital or nonprofit environment. Candidate must demonstrate strong technical accounting skills and proficiency in advanced Microsoft excel.

Skills

Required

• Strong technical accounting skills
• Proficiency in advanced Microsoft Excel

Benefits

• Ridgeview offers a full line of benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, Long-Term Disability, Holiday Pay, Vacation and Sick Leave, Life Insurance and Wellness Plan.