Overall Summary

The Accountant III is primarily responsible for directing financial activities of an organization by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors. Additionally, this position performs grant accounting duties for selected grants in accordance with standard accounting practices and additional accounting functions as assigned.

Essential Responsibilities

Under the general direction of the Finance Director, the Accountant III performs a variety of complex, professional, analytical, and confidential financial services. Duties include:

1. Financial Analysis

• Leading the month-end close process
• Completing monthly financial statement package
• Heavy analysis and reconciliation exposure
• Prepare and review monthly journal entries and work-papers
• Investigate and report trend and budget variances
• Lead advanced accounting research and advise staff on accounting principles
• Profit & Loss Statement, Balance Sheet & Cash Flow
• Maintain Financial Dashboard
• Financial Ratios & Graphs
• Executive Summary Tables
• Maintain Adaptive Software

2. Manage Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable.

• Responsible for accounting and reconciliation of GL Accounts including fixed assets, bank reconciliations, prepaid accounts, deferred revenue, accounting research, and other accounting activities.

3. Assist the CFO and DOF in the preparation of budgets, reviews budget proposals, and prepares necessary supporting documentation and justification.

• Prepare in-depth financial analysis, supplemented with qualitative narratives and analysis, on important business strategies for the agency, including:
• Revenue Enhancement (i.e., visit tracking and analysis, provider productivity, patient receivable management, billing financial class analysis)
• Expense Forecasting and Analysis (i.e., FTE reports and analysis, budget framework, budget variance analysis)
• Reporting and analysis for Federal UDS Report and State OSHPD reports
• Overall Business Strategies (i.e., financial analysis for existing sites, financial analysis for new sites, business insurance maintenance and analysis and contract management.

4. Lead and Supervise the Grant Accountants

• Be the primary fiscal contact for sub-recipients and funders’ program managers
• Understand the financial requirements in executed grant contracts
• Safeguard compliance to financial grant contract conditions
• Ensure that all fiscal reporting requirements are met and related forms submitted
• Comply with all grant audit requirements
• Assign and set-up grant source codes in MIP
• Prepare monthly Grant Management Reports for the review and evaluation of program management, the Development Team and Chiefs identifying issues, concerns and problems for each monitored grant, especially those paid on a cost-reimbursement basis.