Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

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Accounting Full Time 40 hours per week Management Washington, DC, US

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

About Whitman-Walker Health

Whitman-Walker envisions a society where all people are seen for who they are, treated with dignity and respect, and afforded equal opportunity to health and wellbeing. Through care, advocacy, research, and education, we empower all people to live healthy, love openly, and achieve equality and inclusion. For over 50 years, we have been meeting the needs of our communities with the endless dedication of our diverse teams.

Core Whitman-Walker Primary Essential Duties

• Performs and behaves in accordance with Whitman-Walker’s mission, cultural norms and core values of dignity, respect, affirmation, and humility.
• Maintain a respectful, non-judgmental, and compassionate manner with patients/clients/staff.
• Demonstrate excellent customer service by identifying and exceeding customer requirements.
• Adhere to Whitman-Walker policies and procedures, with special attention given to HIPAA requirements.
• Maintain data integrity through conscientious use of relevant tools and employing a system of checks and balances.
• Demonstrate organizational skills necessary to multi-task, meet deadlines and re-prioritize as needed.
• Participate in organizational quality and performance improvement activities.

Job Summary

The Assistant Controller is responsible for supporting the finance department in the full-cycle production of financial statements and general financial administration. Specifically, the duties include: oversight of comprehensive general ledger maintenance and reconciliation, monthly overhead allocations, fixed assets, bank reconciliations, AP/AR management, cash reporting and banking maintenance, and other monthly closing entries. In addition, duties include assisting and contributing to financial reporting/presentations, annual audit preparation and management, Uniform Data Set (UDS) and other regulatory requests and reporting.

This position reports to the Deputy Chief Financial Officer.

• Assist in the development of timely and accurate financial statements and reports, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Manages month and year end close, including closing procedures and entries for all areas within scope of responsibility.
• Implement, maintain, and strengthen control of the environment.
• Manages maintenance and reconciliation of the general ledger and related subsidiary ledgers. Ensure that reconciliations are completed in a timely manner.
• Manages all monthly recurring journal entries including prepaids, postage, fixed asset depreciation, accruals, and year end audit within areas of responsibility.
• Manages the funding and recording of health claims for a self-insured health insurance program.
• Ensures all bank activity is recorded, posted, and reconciled in a timely and accurate manner for both daily and monthly reporting.
• Oversee the maintenance of cost allocations within the financial system.
• Manages monthly departmental reporting, including identifying unusual items and unexpected variances.
• Manages the interconnection between monthly grant invoices and financial statement related reporting, ensuring accounts receivables entries, and other entries, are accurate for reporting and billing purposes.
• Assist management with assessment and accounting implications of new activities, including new accounting pronouncements.
• Maintain communication and coordination with Grants accounting and Payroll staff.
• Assisting with the evaluation and documentation of the accounting determination of grants, contracts, and contribution of accounting and revenue recognition and recording, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
• Oversee the accurate completion and timely filing of 1099s by the AP Staff Accountant
• Manages the monthly reconciliation of fundraising activity in cooperation with Foundation staff.
• Manages and reviews the accurate and timely recording, approval, and posting of all cash disbursement activities.
• Provides guidance with respect to corporate credit card administration.
• Oversee the timely and accurate reporting of all operational cash deposits and petty cash transactions by the AR Staff Accountant
• Participates in management meetings to act upon a variety of matters including personnel matters and…