Accounting Manager

JOB SUMMARY:

The Accounting Manager oversees the accounting department, managing daily operations, staff, internal controls and financial reporting.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Takes responsibility for the accuracy of general ledger, including recording or reviewing all journal entries, ensuring account reconciliations are prepared timely and reviewing results for anomalies. 
• Manages accounting team responsible for payroll, accounts payable, project accounting and cash receipts.  Leads and develops team, including mentoring and coaching.
• Maintains robust internal controls and policies and procedures for accounting transactions.  Ensures compliance with GAAP and federal regulations.
• Evaluates business processes for effectiveness and efficiency. 
• Serves as primary contact with the external accounting firm responsible for the annual audit.  Provides information necessary to complete the annual 990 filing.
• Prepares monthly financial reports for leadership and financial analysis for department leaders.  Responsible for ad hoc reporting needs.
• Assists with the preparation of the annual budget. 
• Tracks and monitors progress on annual team goals and projects.  Prioritizes requests and can communicate the status of projects regularly.  Assists in developing annual goals.
• Provides support to the Finance Director as needed.

This role description is a general description of the essential job functions.  It is not intended to describe all the duties the Accounting Manager may perform.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• Communication Skills

Effectively and respectably communicate with other individuals, whether it be a colleague, patient, or patient’s family member and appropriately enumerate information in a manner easily understood by all parties. We do this to foster a culture of understanding between all parties, especially in complex and difficult situations, to ultimately provide the best care possible to our patients and their families.

• Decision Making

Ability to make the most appropriate decision in a given situation and then taking the next steps to ensure appropriate and timely completion. This requires conflict resolution skills, critical thinking skills, confidence in your ability to make the right decision in most situations. This also includes ability to prioritize your workday appropriately to ensure the most important tasks are completed on time.

• HealthCare Knowledge

Having the drive to keep yourself abreast and up to date on the new breakthroughs in your area of expertise and communicating them to the rest of the team, as appropriate.  This also includes keeping up with your licensure and yearly training requirements within your area expertise along with MAHEC’s organizational training. Finally, the ability to apply the depth of knowledge maintained and gained through this process in real life scenarios as appropriate.

• Interpersonal Skills

Showing the ability to meet difficult situations with grace, professionalism, and understanding. Within your area of expertise, showing respect and showing empathy where appropriate with your colleagues, patients, and their family at all times, even when its most difficult to do so. This is done, in part, by effective listening, being your authentic self, showing responsibility and dependability, and being patient with others.

• Organizational Values

Adherence to MAHEC’s founding principles and incorporating them every day. This includes, among others, having integrity and accountability, reverence for other cultures and equitable practices, ability to manage change, and displaying a clear understanding of organizational dynamics. Doing these things creates a culture where people want to do the best for each other and gives personal ownership towards the goal of helping people in their time of need.

• Problem Solving

Having an analytical mind and ability to work autonomously to solve complex problems that may arise. The wherewithal to think logically through a difficult problem and come to an appropriate resolution for a given issue. This helps to drive continuous improvement by thinking through where we can improve in a novel way. Measures success by understanding where we are currently and where we want to go and then applying those new ideas to affect positive change.

SPECIFIED SKILLS

• COMPUTER
  • Excellent skills in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and database applications required. Workday experience is an added value.
• FOREIGN LANGUAGE
  • Not Applicable.