Accountant IV in Malden, Massachusetts at Cambridge Health Alliance

Location: Commerce Place
Category: Professional and Management
Department: Hospital Accounting
Job Type: Full Time
Union Name: Non Union

Work Schedule: Day
Length Of Shift(s) In Hours: 8
Shift Details: Monday-Fririday
Hours/Week: 40
Weekend Requirements: No
Holiday Requirements: No
On Call Requirements: No

The Accountant IV is a lead contributor within CHA’s Finance, Accounting & Treasury department, responsible for safeguarding the integrity and accuracy of the company’s financial records. This role moves beyond transactional processing to take ownership of complex month-end and year-end close procedures, advanced financial reporting, and audit management. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, the Senior Accountant IV acts as a subject matter expert, championing digital transformation and ensuring CHA’s financial data is accurate and reliable.

Key Responsibilities

Accounting & Month end close: Ensures transactions are recorded in accordance with GAAP. Manages the Chart of Accounts, prepares advanced financial schedules, and conducts rigorous, independent reviews of complex financial data to ensure total accuracy and adherence to deadlines.

Complex Reconciliations & Analysis: Owns the monthly reconciliation process for high-risk, highly visible or complex accounts. Investigates variances to identify root causes, resolves systemic discrepancies and implements process improvements to prevent future errors.

Audit: Serves as a primary contact for external auditors. Drives organizational audit readiness, prepares comprehensive work papers and executes advanced variance analysis to clearly explain fluctuations in financial results.

Treasury & Cash Management: Execute complex daily cash management duties, monitors liquidity, and provides critical treasury reporting to the Accounting Manager.

Capital Expenditure Reporting: Owns the monthly reporting of capital expenditures to the Capital Expenditure Review Committee (CERC), a Senior leadership committee. Drives and coordinate the annual capital budgeting process.

Tax Compliance: Organizes and prepares and validates comprehensive annual tax filings for the organization and its subsidiaries

Digital transformation: Champions CHA’s digital transformation initiative by partnering with IT Business Analytics to design, test and validate Tableau dashboards. Maintains and optimizes CHA Finance Google Sites

Technical Subject Matter Expertise: Acts as a primary technical accounting resource for the department. Researches accounting guidance to ensure appropriate treatment of accounting transactions.

• Comprehensive knowledge of GAAP and the ability to apply technical accounting standards to complex business transactions.

• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills with the ability to analyze large data sets and clearly communicate results.

• Advanced Excel skills are essential. Experience navigating and optimizing ERP systems, Tableau, and Google Workspace (Sites/Sheets) is highly preferred.

• A high degree of accuracy and the ability to seamlessly manage multiple competing deadlines with minimal supervision.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills and collaborative mindset to work effectively cross-functionally and with external audit partners.

Please note that the final offer may vary within the listed Pay Range, based on a candidate's experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

In keeping with federal, state and local laws, Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) policy forbids employees and associates to discriminate against anyone based on race, religion, color, gender, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to establishing and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination. We are fully committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not tolerate unlawful discrimination in the recruitment, hiring, termination, promotion, salary treatment or any other condition of employment or career development. Furthermore, we will not tolerate the use of discriminatory slurs, or other remarks, jokes or conduct, that in the judgment of CHA, encourage or permit an offensive or hostile work environment.