Staff Accountant

Description

MedRVA Healthcare is seeking a detail-oriented and motivated Staff Accountant to join our finance team. The Staff Accountant will support day-to-day accounting functions and play an important role in month-end close, account reconciliations, financial reporting, accounts payable, and maintaining accurate financial records. This position is ideal for an accounting professional who enjoys working in a hands-on environment, investigating discrepancies, improving processes, and supporting management with timely and accurate financial information.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone who is organized, dependable, curious, and willing to learn. The ideal candidate does more than process transactions - they want to understand why an account changed, investigate discrepancies, and help improve the accuracy and efficiency of the accounting function. This position offers exposure to a broad range of accounting responsibilities and the opportunity to develop a strong understanding of healthcare and ambulatory surgery center financial operations.

Salary Range

$60,000 to $70,000

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist with the monthly and year-end financial close process for all entities.
• Prepare and post journal entries, including accruals, prepaid expenses, allocations, and other recurring entries.
• Prepare monthly balance sheet account reconciliations and investigate discrepancies.
• Assist in preparing monthly income statements, balance sheets, and other financial reports.
• Review general ledger activity for accuracy, appropriate classification, and unusual variances.
• Support accounts payable, including invoice review, coding, payment processing, and vendor account reconciliation.
• Assist with bank and cash reconciliations and research reconciling items.
• Maintain schedules for fixed assets, depreciation, prepaid expenses, accruals, and other balance sheet accounts.
• Assist with healthcare-related revenue and contractual adjustment reconciliations.
• Analyze actual financial results compared with budget and prior-year performance.
• Assist with the annual budgeting and forecasting process.
• Prepare schedules and supporting documentation for annual audits, tax preparation, and other financial reviews.
• Assist with accounting and reporting for multiple entities, departments, and locations.
• Help maintain strong internal controls and accurate supporting documentation.
• Identify accounting discrepancies and work with appropriate departments to resolve issues.
• Assist management with special projects, financial analysis, and process-improvement initiatives.
• Maintain confidentiality of financial, employee, physician, and organizational information.
• Perform other accounting and finance duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent relevant accounting experience.
• Understanding of basic accounting principles, including debits and credits, accrual accounting, and financial statements.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple responsibilities and meet monthly deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including formulas, data analysis, and spreadsheets.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.

Preferred

• 1-3 years of accounting or finance experience.
• Experience with month-end close and general ledger accounting.
• Healthcare, ambulatory surgery center, physician practice, or other medical-industry accounting experience.
• Experience working with multiple entities or locations.
• Experience with accounting/ERP and financial reporting systems.
• Experience supporting financial statement audits.

Knowledge and Skills

• Understand the relationship between the general ledger, income statement, and balance sheet.
• Research account discrepancies and determine appropriate corrective action.
• Prepare accurate reconciliations with clear supporting documentation.
• Analyze financial information and recognize unusual trends or transactions.
• Work effectively with both financial and non-financial departments.
• Maintain accuracy while working within month-end and year-end deadlines.
• Handle confidential financial information with professionalism and discretion.

ADA Job Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Physical Demands: Intermittent lifting and supporting of patients required; must intermittently lift and support up to 100 pounds or more while assisting patients. Walking, standing, lifting, reaching with hands and arms, carrying, stooping, kneeling, crawling, bending, squatting, handling, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, prolonged sitting, vision, eye-hand coordination, tasting or smelling. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance, vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception. 

Communication Skills: Writing, speaking, hearing, reading, interpersonal relationships, receiving instructions, giving instructions. 

Intellectual Skills: Short and long term memory, abstract reasoning, decision making, directing others, mathematical calculations. 

Work Situations: Work Situations: Working as part of a group, working with the public, performing a variety of duties. 

Disclaimer:

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, but not all-inclusive, listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be asked to perform other duties as required. See ADA checklist for specific related criteria.