We are recruiting for a motivated Accountant, Senior to join our team!

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Department

General Accounting Job Summary
Performs intermediate-level professional accounting work, processes financial transactions, and prepares financial records and reports to ensure compliance with fiscal rules and policies in accordance with audit guidelines, including GAAP, GASB, andFASB accounting regulations.
Essential Functions :

• Prepares routine accounting reports, spreadsheets, and financial statements, researches and compiles data, and assists with creating quarterly and annual reports. (20%)
• Reviews, creates, and enters routine journal vouchers into financial systems, ensures accuracy of documents, and matches records and reports to expenses. (10%)
• Reconciles routine discrepancies with regard to journal and financial transactions, reviews, researches and analyzes reporting errors, and creates reports and compiles supporting documents for corrections within financial systems. (15%)
• Performs routine audits of financial records and transactions, reviews and matches records and statements to ensure accuracy within financial systems, identifies and researches discrepancies, and resolves or makes recommendations for corrective actions. (10%)
• Assists with conducting special projects with regard to financial transactions, researches and analyzes accounting issues, performs financial calculations, and creates reports and compiles supporting documents for management review. (10%)
• Works with stakeholders both internal and external to DHHA, responds to inquiries, provides increasingly more complex information and assistance with regard to accounting information and transactions, and works with client groups to resolve issues. (10%)
• By position, assists with the preparation of the Authority's Monthly and Annual Financial Report, which includes validating and calculating financial data, inputting financial data into the report, and working directly with external auditors to provide information and reports. (15%)
• By position, assists with reviewing internal financial controls to ensure controls are in alignment with the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations' guidelines and framework, which includes mapping and diagramming business processes, researching policies and procedures, interviewing staff, and assisting with the development of tests to evaluate the effectiveness of financial processes. (10%)

Education :

• Bachelor's Degree Required

Work Experience :

• 1-3 years 2 years professional level accounting experience reconciling accounting discrepancies, analyzing expenditures, and preparing financial reports. Required

Licenses :
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

• Decision Making - Specifies goals and obstacles to achieving those goals, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses the best alternative in order to make a determination, draw conclusions, or solve a problem.
• Interpersonal Skills - Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, cooperation, concern, and politeness to others and relates well to different people from varied backgrounds and different situations.
• Mathematical Reasoning - Solves practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical and statistical techniques.
• Attention to Detail - Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Interpersonal Skills - Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, cooperation, concern, and politeness to others and relates well to different people from varied backgrounds and different situations.
• Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of accounting and auditing sufficient to be able to establish, maintain, understand and interpret various accounting systems, for general purposes or to assist others.
• Knowledge of budgeting principles and practices sufficient to be able to perform a variety of duties related to the work assignment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

Shift

Days (United States of America)

Work Type

Regular

Salary

$71,668.00 - $107,502.00 / yr

Benefits

• Outstanding benefits including up to 27 paid days off per year, immediate retirement plan employer contribution up to 9.5%, and generous medical plans

• Free RTD EcoPass (public transportation)

• On-site employee fitness center and wellness classes

• Childcare discount programs & exclusive perks on large brands, travel, and more

• Tuition reimbursement & assistance

• Education & development opportunities including career pathways and coaching

• Professional clinical advancement program & shared governance

• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer free student loan coaching and assistance navigating the PSLF program

• National Health Service Corps (NHCS) and Colorado Health Service Corps (CHSC) eligible employer

Our Values

• Respect

• Belonging

• Accountability

• Transparency

All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made.
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As Colorado's primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.
Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.
We strongly support diversity in the workforce and Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).

Denver Health values the unique ideas, talents and contributions reflective of the needs of our community. For more about our commitment to diversity visit: https://www.denverhealth.org/for-professionals/careers/diversity-and-inclusion

Applicants will be considered until the position is filled.