Senior Accountant
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Senior Accountant supporting financial reporting, reconciliations, audits, and tax filings for Tufts Medicine, an integrated Massachusetts health system. Supervising staff accountants and improving accounting processes.
Responsibilities:
- Assist the manager with monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial statement preparation
- Reconcile account balances and prepare month-end journal entries and close reporting
- Prepare monthly and year-to-date account balance analyses and communicate budget variances
- Assist with year-end audits, benefit plan audits, and tax filings
- Coordinate intercompany entries and reconciliations across affiliate accounting teams
- Assist in supervising and training staff accountants
- Review monthly financials, including P&Ls, balance sheets, and graphs
- Perform month-end closing reviews, research, and adjustments
- Prepare ratio calculations and other periodic analyses
- Complete monthly eliminations and cash flow reporting
- Maintain records for temporary and restricted funds and reconcile net assets
- Maintain the automated general ledger system and account/report structures
- Allocate rent expense and book entries
- Analyze monthly P&Ls for parent and property corporations
- Manage prepaid and accounts receivable accounts and lease agreements
- Calculate and record depreciation and input new capital
- Book monthly audit accruals and reconcile assigned accounts
- Work with auditors during interim and year-end audits
- Safeguard, reconcile, and replenish petty cash; complete quarterly hospital cash flow
- Prepare and review tax returns and file tax extension forms
- Reconcile the general ledger and review staff accountant reconciliations
- Assist with software upgrades, accounting policies, procedures, projects, and initiatives
- Educate managers and staff on computerized accounting systems and accrual processes
- Propose operational process enhancements and monitor cost and process metrics
- Apply regulations, industry trends, best practices, developments, and applicable laws
- Maintain collaborative relationships with accounting, finance, and other teams
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- Three (3) years of general accounting experience or one (1) year of healthcare-specific accounting experience
- Preferred: five (5) years of general accounting experience or three (3) years of healthcare-specific accounting experience
- Analytical skills for analyzing and reconciling accounts
- Interpersonal skills for interacting with managers, banks, and staff
- Organizational and problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and delivery dates
- Effective communication, judgment, and constructive interaction with staff and department managers
- Strong teamwork experience
- Ability to work in a complex, fluid environment and independently
- Ability to perform sedentary office work and occasional lifting/moving of up to 25 pounds
- Manual dexterity for operating a computer keyboard
Benefits:
- Comprehensive Total Rewards package supporting health, financial security, and career growth
- Competitive pay
- Career growth support



















