Director of Accounting

The Director of Accounting is responsible for the day-to-day execution, accuracy, and continuous improvement of the company’s accounting function. Reporting to the Controller, this senior finance leader will oversee the financial close, consolidation, balance-sheet management, technical accounting, internal controls, external audit support, and accounting integration of acquired entities.

The Director will serve as the Controller’s principal operating partner and work closely with the CFO, FP&A, Operations, Treasury, Legal, Tax, Corporate Development, and other functional leaders. The successful candidate will be a technically strong, hands-on leader who can resolve complex accounting issues while strengthening the people, processes, systems, and controls required to support a growing, multi-entity healthcare organization.

• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close, ensuring financial results are timely, accurate, complete, and appropriately supported.
• Manage the close calendar and coordinate accounting activities and dependencies across the organization.
• Review significant journal entries, accruals, estimates, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
• Maintain balance-sheet integrity by ensuring material accounts are reconciled and reconciling items are investigated and resolved promptly.
• Perform analytical reviews of financial results, including significant income
• statements and balance-sheet fluctuations.
• Ensure appropriate allocation, cutoff, classification, and application of accrual-accounting principles.
• Support the preparation and review of financial statements and related reporting.
• Improve close speed, consistency, and reliability through standardization, automation, stronger systems, and effective controls.

• Oversee accounting and consolidation for the company’s legal entities, joint ventures, and other complex ownership arrangements.
• Lead intercompany reconciliations, eliminations, and consolidation entries.
• Ensure appropriate accounting for investments, noncontrolling interests, equity-method investments, distributions, capital contributions, and other ownership transactions.
• Evaluate new and amended joint venture arrangements and document the appropriate accounting treatment under U.S. GAAP.
• Research, evaluate, and document conclusions for complex, unusual, or judgmental transactions.
• Prepare or review technical accounting memoranda, policies, and other supporting documentation.
• Monitor new accounting standards and coordinate implementation of applicable guidance.
• Provide technical oversight in areas including ASC 805, ASC 810, ASC 842, ASC 606, goodwill and intangible assets, contingencies, related-party transactions, and other healthcare-specific matters.
• Escalate material or highly judgmental matters to the Controller and/or CFO with a clear, well-supported recommendation.

• Coordinate with Corporate Development, FP&A, Legal, Tax, operational leaders, and external advisers.
• Own the accounting workstream for acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions from diligence through post-close integration.
• Prepare or review purchase-accounting analyses, acquisition entries, goodwill and intangible-asset calculations, and related support including purchase accounting, working capital, opening balance sheets, and post-close reporting
• Integrate acquired entities into the company’s close, consolidation, reporting, reconciliation, and internal control processes.
• Ensure transaction-related accounting conclusions are appropriately documented and audit-ready.

• Maintain a scalable internal control environment with clear…