Senior Accountant

Datavant is a rapidly growing health information technology company with a mission to connect the world’s health data to improve patient outcomes. Datavant works to reduce the friction of data sharing across the healthcare industry by building technology that protects the privacy of patients while supporting the linkage of patient health records across datasets.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, remote-first team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We hire for three traits: we want people who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team, and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs. 

We’re looking for a Senior Accountant to oversee assigned aspects of the general ledger and ensure proper classification and recording of financial transactions.  The Senior Accountant will build off our strong momentum and take our accounting function to the next level. This is a high visibility role and will work directly with our Accounting and Finance team and leaders across the company.  In this role, your work will be instrumental in helping Datavant realize its critical mission to transform healthcare.

You will:

• Prepare journal entries for balance sheet and expense accounts
• Perform monthly reconciliations and flux analysis for accounts, as assigned, for month end/year end close processes
• Review and approve reconciliations and journal entries of staff accountants
• Identify and participate in improvement of current processes and coordinate organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity
• Assist in testing and implementation of new accounting software from legacy system
• Participate in coordination of accounting deliverables related to planning, interim and year end audit process
• Assist Head of Internal Controls with implementation of new processes and controls
• Assist with M&A accounting related activities
• Ad hoc account analysis and technical accounting research as needed to support business 

What you will bring to the table: 

• 3+ years of progressive growth in financial roles. Mix of public/private experience preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree with an emphasis or major in accounting or related field
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and SOX
• CPA or CPA candidate preferred
• Netsuite ERP, GSuite, Floqast, Oracle/HCM  experience preferred
• Advanced skills in Excel
• Meticulous attention to detail, highly organized and transparent, and a strong communicator -- able to present financial information clearly and concisely
• Strong familiarity with month-end close and general ledger processes
• Strong Work Ethic. Collaborative working style with colleagues across the organization while confident to make and own critical decisions
• Good judgment and sensitivity to confidential documents, issues and information
• High level of diplomacy, tact, and discretion. Understands ethical issues and has a proven high level of integrity.

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are smart, nice, and get things done, where every Datavanter is empowered to bring their authentic self to their work. We are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges for this position are developed with the support of benchmarks (competitive San Francisco rates for US-based roles) and industry best practices. 

We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact. This means we default to simple job titles (e.g., Software Engineer) rather than complex ones (e.g., Senior Software Engineer). The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on  level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. The estimated salary range for this role is $77,000-$102,000.

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