Accountant

Company: Shriners Children's
Location: Elmwood Park
Posted on: June 24, 2022

Job Description:

Shriners Childrens' Chicago aka Shriners Hospitals for Children - is changing lives every day through innovative pediatric specialty care, world-class research and outstanding medical education. Our 22 facilities, located in the United States, Canada and Mexico, provide advanced care for children with orthopedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate.Shriners Childrens' Chicago -offers career opportunities to clinical and non-clinical professionals; as well as educational and research opportunities. The work environment is mission driven, high quality and provides great satisfaction to all professionals through the unique health care setting. We are an equal employment opportunity employer committed to providing challenging and rewarding careers in an environment based on our corporate values - excellence, innovation, commitment, integrity, teamwork, stewardship and respect.Shriners Childrens' Chicago is looking for an Accountant to join our Hospital Team.Accountant, Full time opportunity. -Prepare monthly financial statements and variance analysis. -

• Process fixed asset additions, transfer and approved removals. Monthly posts fixed asset payments and closes appropriations when complete. Maintains fixed asset files. Runs reports. Assists manages as needed. Monthly reconciles the FAMS system to the General Ledger per schedule. Coordinates the annual inventory. Prepares monthly journal entries as necessary for Fixed Asset retirements, donations and depreciation. Prepare journal entries and monthly closing. -
• Prepare monthly standard, recurring and other journal entries as necessary and their supporting documentation. Prepare monthly financial statements. Coordinates the monthly closing to meet headquarters' schedule. Analyze variances to identify any errors and to better understand the activities and trends in expenditures. Works with managers to answer questions, resolve issues and aid them in their understanding in of their financial statements. Prepares the monthly estimate of surgical implant usage and inventory balance, maintains the data base and works with the Operating Room staff to conduct the annual inventory. Records directed donations, donated gift cards and their subsequent usage. Distributes monthly financial reports to department managers and administration. -
• Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts including the bank reconciliation. Forwards reconciliations to headquarters per the schedule. Analyze budget variances. -
• Assist in the preparation of the annual budget including data entry.
• Review and balance bi-weekly payroll and taxes gross to net to ensure accuracy and compliance with Shrine policies, procedures and Federal and state laws, rules and regulations. Reviews error messages and warnings. Ensures paid hours tie to the timeclock system. Verifies the correct number of total paychecks and the correct number by gross amount. Verifies that manual checks and voids are correctly entered. Recalculates retros to ensure accuracy. Tracks payroll trends and data.
• Prepares monthly reports for the Board of Governors: Continuing Education, Physicians' Time Away, Agency usage.
• Provide special analysis as needed.
• Participates in the CQI process, collects statistics as appropriate, identifies opportunities to improve service, propose improvements and evaluate. -Assists in preparing quarterly Medicare cost accounting statistics including: square footage by department; dietary and laundry statistics, take home drugs, etc. -Bachelors in Accounting Required1 Year Accounting in hospital or not-for-profit setting Required

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