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Accountant

Responsibilities

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

Provides timely and accurate financial record keeping and reporting as directed by management including but not limited to preparing IDTs for monthly close, financial statements and account analysis.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Maintains financial records in accordance with departmental standards.
• Creates reports on financial performance for internal and external use .
• Performs P&L reconciliations.
• Creates and utilizes automated tools for the updating, analyzing and reporting of consolidated financial results.
• Helps with preparpation of the departmental annual budget.
• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the iSCORE values of Jefferson.

OTHER FUNCTIONS AND COMPETENCIES:

• Knowledge of successful approaches, tools, and techniques for dealing with changes and adapting to a changing environment, ability to adapt as needed.
• Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems, ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Understanding of the necessity and value of teamwork, ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Understanding of the necessity and value of accuracy and attention to detail, ability to process information with high levels of accuracy.
• Knowledge of and ability to utilize processes, methods, and tools for maintaining accurate and thorough records of financial transactions.

Knowledge of processes, methods, and tools of financial reporting, ability to create and maintain accurate and thorough financial reports.

Qualifications

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIREMENTS:
Highschool diploma required, Bachleor's degree preferred.
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

1-3 years of financial experience a plus

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Ability to meet deadlines and willing to work extended hours when needed.

Microsoft excel experience mandatory, Hyperion experience a plus. Grant experience a plus, but not required

Conditions of Employment

Since this position will require the selected candidate to engage in regular contact with children in the form of care, guidance, supervision or training, you will be required to meet the requirements of the Child Protective Services Act, including the Pennsylvania State Police criminal background check, the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare child abuse criminal background clearance, and an FBI finger print based federal criminal records check. The selected candidate will not be allowed to commence working until all three (3) are completed satisfactorily.

Conditions of Employment

Covid Vaccination is a requirement for employment at Jefferson for employees working at Jefferson's clinical entities or at the University. If you are not currently vaccinated you will be required to receive the vaccination prior to hire date if you are offered employment, unless you request and receive an approved medical or religious exemption from Jefferson.

Closing Statement

Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnet®-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

Jefferson's mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.

• OUR MISSION: We improve lives.
• OUR VISION: Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value
• OUR VALUES: Put People First, Be Bold & Think Differently and Do the Right Thing

As an employer, Jefferson maintains a commitment to provide equal access to employment. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, disabled individuals, and veterans.

Par Reference Code

102481