Senior Accountant - Corporate Accounting

Senior Accountant, Corporate Accounting

Heartland Dental is looking for a Senior Accountant to join our Corporate Accounting team and own the revenue and corporate accrual workstreams that support an accurate, timely month-end close.

In this role, you will prepare and review complex reconciliations and journal entries, serve as a go-to resource for Staff Accountants and the offices we support, and help drive the automation and process improvements that shorten our close timeline.

Heartland Dental is the nation's largest dental support organization, providing non-clinical administrative support services to more than 3,200 supported doctors across 39 states and the District of Columbia in 2,000+ dental offices. Each Heartland Dental supported office is unique to the community and the patients they serve.

Supported doctors are the clinical leaders of their practice, retain full clinical autonomy, and establish their own care philosophies. All Heartland Dental supported doctors are united by a common goal: delivering the highest quality dental care and patient experiences.

To give you an idea of the team structure, you will work on the Corporate Accounting team alongside Staff and Senior Accountants, in close partnership with the cash matching team, reporting to the Corporate Accounting Supervisor

Below is an overview of the duties and responsibilities you would take on in this role:

• Prepare complex monthly account analysis and reconciliations for professional corporations and supported offices, ensuring proper recording of office collections in the patient accounting systems while ensuring accurate cash balances are recorded in the general ledger.
• Perform exception analysis on outstanding reconciling items and partner with cash matching team for corrections and resolutions.
• Record monthly journal entries related to revenues, collections, and applicable adjustments as assigned.
• Serve as a subject matter expert with the various financial and analytical tools utilized by the Corporate Accounting functions, including Blackline.
• Review monthly revenue activity for Heartland’s supported offices.
• Partner with the Doctor Compensation Team to answer revenue questions from Heartland’s supported offices.
• Assist with unclaimed property processes.
• Actively assist with development and testing of revenue automation and optimization of processes to support a shortened month-end close timeline.
• Perform the monthly and quarterly PO and non-PO accrual processes, ensuring that liabilities are appropriately recorded.
• Partner with corporate departments to gather necessary information related to existing and potential accruals.
• Monitor purchasing systems throughout the month for items requiring approval.
• Assist with other areas of corporate accounting, including corporate prepaids, other assets, other liabilities.
• Review revenue and cash reconciliations, accruals, and journal entries prepared by Staff Accountants, providing coaching and feedback that strengthens accuracy and supports their development.
• Analyze process breaks or gaps within the revenue cycle and corporate accrual process and recommend best path forward.
• Other projects as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in accounting or related field and 4+ years of experience in related areas of corporate accounting or public accounting
• In-depth understanding of US GAAP, including account reconciliations, accruals, and month-end close process
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify discrepancies, perform research, and drive issues to resolution
• Strong computer skills, including experience with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain accounting matters to non-accounting partners
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines in a fast paced, deadline driven environment
• The position will have access to minimum PHI necessary for performing job-related functions; regular HIPAA training, aligning with the specific role and responsibilities, will be required; and the individual will need to protect PHI and maintain data safeguards.

Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience with Blackline’s reconciliation module a strong plus
• Experience in healthcare, dental, or multi-location revenue accounting

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to perform essential duties satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties of the position
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times

We put our people first at Heartland Dental, and that shows in our generous benefits package.

Company retains the sole discretion to change the duties of the position at any time.

We provide all employees and applicants for employment the protections of federal, state, and local laws affording equal opportunity in employment.