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Lightwave, founded in 2016, is a high-growth company building the group model for the future of the dental industry. Lightwave is passionate about doing things the right way with a tight focus on high quality, core values, and taking care of their people. Lightwave is a dental leadership organization that focuses on partnering, training and developing dentists as the natural leaders of the dental practice. Lightwave helps dentists launch their careers, supports dentists leading high-growth dental groups, and assists doctors looking to establish their legacy as they transition into retirement. Lightwave is solving the big problems in dentistry: retirement, management, reimbursements, and partnership by providing the benefits of a group while preserving the essence of private practice. Lightwave currently supports 65 dental offices in 3 states with 175 full-time dentists and over 1,000 active employees. For additional information, please visit lightwavedental.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

Benefits Offered

We offer a great benefits package to include health and dental benefits, 401(k), holiday pay and paid time off.

Responsibilities

The Senior Staff Accountant role will have a heavy focus on accounts payable processing. Other main duties include bank reconciliations, credit card coding, and non-income tax filings. The staff accountant reports to the Assistant Controller or Controller. The Staff Accountant works closely with the Senior Staff Accountant who reviews some of the Staff Accountant’s work.

• Establishing and maintaining relationships with new and existing vendors for assigned practices.
• Main contact for practices regarding accounting related items.
• Accurately code a high volume of invoices in bill.com.
• Ensuring a W9 is collected for all vendors and properly stored and recorded for 1099 issuance.
• Reviewing 1099s at year end to ensure accurate reporting and helping to print and mail 1099s.
• Set up weekly check run on Wednesday to be released on Friday. Ensure there are no late fees or finance charges by paying all rents, utilities, and other bills timely.
• Requesting annual CAM rec from landlord, when applicable.
• Reviewing pending bills to ensure they are not being held up for approval and emailing approvers a reminder as needed.
• Clearing up all sync errors in bill.com timely.
• Responding to Senior Staff Accountants on invoices tags timely.
• Request and review all monthly vendor statements to ensure bills are entered in the proper period.
• Run vendor P&L report prior to close.
• Review monthly income statement prior to close.
• Record accruals for missing bills prior to close.
• Record all manual checks issued directly at the practice, mainly comprised of patient refunds. Ensuring a W9 is collected for other manual checks.
• Monthly bank reconciliations for assigned practices reconciled to zero with no lingering book side issues.
• Coding of practice credit cards and verification that receipts are attached. Responsible for ensuring missing receipts get attached. Must manually add use tax, when applicable.
• Request missing monthly practice reports and ensure that all are saved in the proper folder each month.
• Check mail on in office days and scan to respective email addresses.
• File and pay monthly sales & use tax timely and ensure use tax is manually added to bills, when applicable.
• File and pay all business license and personal property taxes for assigned practices timely.
• Timely gathering and responding to external audit requests.
• Record journal entries as needed generally related to the bank reconciliation.
• Other Ad Hoc reports or projects as requested.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in accounting or related field preferred
• Thorough understanding of (GAAP) Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Thorough understanding of accrual accounting
• Microsoft Office Experience to include Office 365, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Excel skill level to include simple excel formulas, pivot tables and v-lookups
• Excellent customer service skills
• Ability to problem solve
• Ability to own a project with minimal guidance

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