DescriptionSenior Accountant-General Accounting-Corporate- Full-Time Days
The Senior Accountant performs professional accounting duties related to all matters finance, including financial review, forecasting and providing all requested data analytics. Gathers data and prepares a number of accounting/finance-related reports and summaries.
Responsibilities- Prepares, examines, or analyzes accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
- Advises on accounting problems and assists subordinate employees with work.
- Performs maintenance of General Ledger to make sure all the errors are corrected timely for the month-end close.Reviews monthly financial ledgers of assigned accounts.
- Performs monthly bank reconciliations and analysis.
- Reconciliation of the fixed asset ledger and depreciation analysis. Reviews any discrepancies between budgeted and forecasted amounts.
- As applicable to area, monitors Capital Projects budgets for the School, FPA or Hospital, including budget setup forms and various adjustments.
- Reviews capital project management charges.
- Performs monthly Capital Budget Report and details summary.
- Performs analysis and monitors Capital Software projects.
- Maintenance of the intercompany advances and related interest charges
- Calculation/accounting for capitalized interest, capital leases and deferred financing charges.
- Reviews escrow accounts and maintains justification for drawdowns.
- Prepares journal entries and reviews to ensure accuracy of figures.
- Maintains budgeting systems which provide controls for expenditures.Reports to management regarding the finances of department.
- Oversees compliance reporting with primary lenders on a quarterly basis.
- Analyzes all in cost of capital in debt financing, involving a degree of monitoring of commercial paper rates and various banking fees which fluctuate on a periodic basis.
- Assists with the Financial Results Package preparation and produces various analyses.
- Performs other related duties.
Qualifications- Bachelors degree in Accounting; Masters preferred
- 2+ years experience in Accounting
Non-Bargaining Unit, 530 - General Accounting-T - MSH, Mount Sinai Hospital