Accounting Specialist (Accountant)
Omaha, Ne, Us
Strong understanding of financial reporting and month end close process (journal entries & reconciliations).◆ Provided analytical analysis of financial statements, to ensure accurate budget vs. actual figures.◆ Took over a position with high turnover and brought all outstanding reconciling items up to date.◆ Worked with the regional hospitals administrators to ensure accurate reporting of general ledger activity, as well as solve problems and implement new processes to bring them in line with the overall system.◆ Completed numerous projects to integrate regional hospitals to system standards, bringing greater consistency throughout the organization.◆ Set up and ran meetings to solve issues, improve processes, and create greater integration between Accounting and the various departments across the organization.◆ Work with the CEO & business partners of the Joint ventures to ensure accurate financial statements and provide assistance with the budgeting process.◆ Oversaw all Finance and other ancillary activities in setting up and operation of joint ventures, through in-depth collaboration with the CEO including contractual arrangement, charge-master revenue mapping between used services and corresponding charge-master equivalent for billing purposes, forecasting, budgeting, BS/IS/CF roll-forward auditing, and point person for all other related setup and operational duties.◆ Brought efficiency and money savings to the Accounting department by initiating a system to make the department paperless when doing reconciliations & journal entries.◆ Monthly entry experience with Cash, AR, Investments, Accruals, Revenues, Expenses, Affiliates, Net assets.◆ Reconciled Hospital's Cash, AR, ST-LT Debt, Inventory, Sales & Use tax, Prepaids, Joint Ventures, & other misc accounts.◆ Worked with the Billing office to integrate a new patient billing system (Sorian) to meet the needs of Accounting on the back-end.