Regional Accountant

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Full Time Grand Rapids, MI, US

11 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $50,000.00 To $70,000.00 Annually

You can find plenty of accounting roles where the expectation is simple: sit down, close the books, clear your queue, and do it again next month.

Cardinal Senior Living is growing, acquiring communities, and building the infrastructure needed to support a much larger organization. That growth creates a unique opportunity for an early-career accountant who wants more than a narrow lane.

As our next Regional Accountant
, you will learn the technical side of accounting while also seeing how the numbers connect to the real business.

You will support multiple communities. You will work with operational leaders. You will see how accounting impacts decisions in the field. And as you prove yourself, the expectation is that you take on more responsibility, more autonomy, and a bigger role in helping Cardinal scale.

If you are looking for a place to learn fast, contribute early, and grow with the company,
keep reading
.

You will absolutely spend time in the details. Accuracy matters here.

But we are not looking for someone who wants to disappear behind a spreadsheet all day.

Our Accounting team is a support function to the people running our communities, which means this role sits at the nexus of accounting and operations
. You will learn how the business works while becoming a trusted resource for the leaders who depend on accurate financial information.

Your work will include:

• General ledger accounting and journal entries
• Bank, cash, balance sheet, and fixed-asset reconciliations
• Month-end and year-end close support
• Financial reporting and variance research
• Documentation, controls, and audit support
• Working with community and corporate partners to resolve missing or inconsistent information
• Supporting the accounting continuity and capacity required as Cardinal grows and acquires new communities

The internal role standard emphasizes accuracy, documentation discipline, process adherence, deadline reliability, risk recognition, and progressively greater independence.

By 90 days
, you should be demonstrating a solid grasp of foundational GAAP and applying basic accounting principles accurately in your assigned work. You will also be learning Cardinal's entities, processes, controls, and expectations.

By 6 months
, you should have mastered the systems and recurring workflows that drive your role. You will understand how your work fits into the close process, how Accounting supports operations, and how to research and resolve routine issues with confidence.

By 12 months
, the goal is approximately 90% autonomy
. You own your work. You manage your deadlines. You solve routine problems without being chased. You recognize when something looks wrong and know when to fix it yourself versus when to elevate.

That progression is directly aligned with the role's expectation of rapid learning, fewer repeated errors, decreasing supervision, and increasing accountability.

The right person is probably someone who likes the details and likes people.

You might be a great fit if:

• You are driven and want your career to move
• You take feedback seriously and apply it quickly
• You enjoy solving problems instead of passing them along
• You care about accuracy, but you also want to understand the business behind the numbers
• You like being part of a team and actually enjoy the social side of coming to work
• You follow through when you say you will do something
• You want your level of responsibility to grow with your performance
• You are excited by the idea of helping a growing company build something better

We can teach systems. We can teach processes. We can teach how Cardinal does accounting.

We cannot teach drive, curiosity, accountability, or the desire to get better.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
  , plus a foundational understanding of debits and credits, journal entries, general ledger accounting, reconciliations, accrual concepts, and basic financial statements.
• Comfort in using Microsoft Excel, including formulas, formatting, sorting, and filtering.
• Sage Intacct experience is helpful, but it is not required.

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