Accounting Manager

At West Coast University, we share a passion for students and transforming healthcare education! As an associate for a certified Great Place to Work, you will join a collaborative, student-centric culture valuing academic integrity, mutual respect, student learning, service, responsiveness, innovation, diversity, and stewardship. As a part of this team, you will guide students to do more than change their own lives – you will help change the lives of every patient they care for throughout their career.

• Manage and oversee the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting
• Review journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial statements for completeness and accuracy
• Ensure adherence to GAAP and internal accounting policies
• Prepare and review financial schedules and analyses for management, auditors, and external stakeholders

• Assists in developing accounting organizational strategies by contributing accounting and financial information, analysis, and recommendations to strategic thinking and direction; establishing functional objectives in line with organizational objectives
• Assists to manage the analysis and implementation of new accounting standards and reporting requirements
• Maintain chart of accounts
• Manage fixed assets and depreciation
• Perform technical research on complex accounting and reporting issues as required
• Maintain and analyze general ledger accounts
• Ensure proper and consistent financial accounting methodology, techniques, and policies are adopted by the schools and used in operations
• Assist to establish and/or implement internal controls to protect and preserve the Company’s assets
• Demonstrate continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service

• Assists in annual financial statement audit in coordination with the Company’s external auditors
• Track capital costs and capitalization of completed projects
• Assist in projecting line of credit draw in compliance with composite score calculations
• Manage SAP Concur including Corporate Credit Card holders as well as expense reports and other associate reimbursements
• Manage student NCLEX incentive payments
• Oversee administration of the accounting workflow solution, Flo Qast, including all monthly operational and month-end checklists, as well as balance sheet reconciliations such as prepaid expenses, accrued expenses, capital in progress, leases, payroll, and deferred accounts, etc.
• Provides specialized or general calculations and analysis in various accounting functions such as allocations and accruals

• Assists with the annual financial reporting required for education compliance bodies, including but not limited to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES), WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), and Commission for Independent Education (CIE)
• Manage the preparation of Annual 571 Reporting for personal property tax for several states and counties
• Preparation of excise tax filings, franchise tax filings, register creditor renewals
• Assists in various audits including property tax audits, sales and use tax audits and compliance audits
• Assists in managing the preparation of financial statements for internal and external parties
• Assists in forecasting of balance sheet and Composite scores

• Manage, mentor, and develop accounting staff, providing coaching, performance feedback, and growth opportunities
• Review team deliverables and ensure workload is appropriately balanced and prioritized
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and continuous-improvement-focused team culture

• Partner with other departments including Finance, Payroll, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Marketing, and Operations to resolve accounting issues and improve processes
• Serve as a trusted accounting resource to business partners by…