Accountant - Gracedale Nursing Home

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The Accountant 2 position at Gracedale Nursing Home maintains accounting, budgeting and related financial systems and develops, implements, analyzes, and reports accounting and fiscal records for assigned programs or funds.

This position reports directly to the Gracedale Lead Accountant.

This position may exercise limited oversight over lower‐level accounting staff by assigning tasks, reviewing completed tasks, training, and orientation.

• Maintains, or oversees the maintenance of, general ledgers, accounts, and systems, ensuring compliance with law, regulations, requirements, and established accounting control procedures.
• Reviews resident trust account batches to ensure accuracy.
• Reconciles accounts and makes recommendations for approval of payroll, vendor, and other payments.
• Performs monthly soft close and determines revenue to be recorded through use of the billing system. Maintains accurate accounts receivable balance and assists in preparation of monthly financial reports.
• Develops processes to ensure internal controls and provides documentation and other support necessary for yearly audits.
• Records and reconciles all capital additions for Gracedale fixed assets and presents needed reports for state reporting.
• Works with Lead Accountant and other departments to determine capital expectations and ensure adequate allocations are made within the budget to accommodate those needs.
• Develops internal forms and procedures for use in budget development and administration, reviews budget submissions from operating offices, analyzes them for conformance to instructions, completeness of information, and justification.
• Assists Lead Accountant with administering budget, comparing rate of expenditure against projection, and notifies operating offices and/or higher‑level fiscal personnel of findings, spending trends, and other relevant issues.
• Advises personnel of means to more effectively record, control, and report accounts, budget, and other fiscal activities.
• Extracts, extrapolates, analyzes, and develops accounting and financial data for use in budget, support, and other planning and reporting activities. Performs cost analyses of programs accomplished and services provided.
• Prepares reports for internal use and submission to other County and/or Court offices, and State and Federal agencies, including financial management analysis; researches and summarizes support case histories, auditing payments made against court orders and approved schedules, and issues reports of same.
• Analyzes income, tax returns and related information to determine support liability payment levels and schedules, and reconciles support and other accounts.
• May oversee work of lower‑level accounting positions, review transactions for completeness and accuracy, and provide advice and assistance on general working methods and specific tasks; keeps higher‑level personnel informed of difficult and/or unusual problems encountered.
• May participate in interviewing and selecting, or recommending selection of, personnel; provides input on performance appraisals; approves leave requests; recommends disciplines and carries out other personnel management functions in the absence of the Lead Accountant.

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor’s degree, including or supplemented by twenty‑one (21) semester credit hours in professional accounting courses.
• At least three (3) years of full‑time professional work experience in accounting demonstrating the principles,…