Job Description

REM Community Services, a part of the Sevita family, provides community-based services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Here we believe every person has the right to live well, and everyone deserves to have a fulfilling career. You’ll join a mission-driven team and create relationships that motivate us all every day. Join us today, and experience a career well lived.

OUR MISSION AND PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS

The MENTOR Network is a mission-based organization dedicated to providing high quality services to those we serve. Therefore, to deliver on our mission, The Network expects every employee to perform his or her job first and foremost in accordance with the Company’s mission.

SUMMARY

Supports the State and Regional staff in the achievement of financial and operational objectives through the implementation and administration of financial plans. Assists in the annual budget process and periodic forecasting and analysis of operations’ performance. Provides financial analysis to support business decision making and ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial reporting.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below:

• Responsible for the maintenance of an effective control environment under SOX 404 for the accounting operations he or she oversees. This includes both key and non-key controls and extends to the timely updating and modification of control design where necessary and the oversight of control remediation activities should exceptions be encountered in testing
• Performs monthly and quarterly analysis of operations’ results for all State and Regional Centers vs. plan(s).
• Prepares financial plans in accordance with annual budgets, quarterly revenue and profit targets, headcount authorizations and recurring forecasts.
• Serves as the regions’ primary liaison to corporate finance and accounting; articulates field operations’ needs for support and assistance
• Provides assistance to corporate finance and accounting staff with the development of systems and approaches that address company requirements and are responsive and sensitive to field needs.
• Serves as a financial resource to the operating group Vice President and State Director(s).
• Reviews and makes recommendations for approval of State and Region headcount additions.
• Reviews and makes recommendations for approval of requisitions of capital and operating expenditures in accordance with Region/Corporate goals and needs.
• Provides financial input and recommendations for approval of requisitions of capital and operating expenditures in accordance with Region/Corporate goals and needs.
• Provides financial input and recommendations for contracts and proposals.
• Assists in financial related areas during key account presentations.
• Performs other related duties and activities as required.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Directs and supervises Accounting Managers and Accountants, including performance evaluations, scheduling, orientation, and training. Makes decisions on employee hires, transfers, promotions, salary changes, discipline, terminations, and similar actions. Resolves employee problems within position responsibilities.

Minimum Knowledge and Skills required by the Job

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in accounting or related field
• MBA preferred
• 5 - 7 years’ experience in accounting/financial management

Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations:

• CPA preferred.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• N/A

Other Requirements:

• Travel as needed

Physical Requirements

• Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT STATEMENT

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined on a case by case basis via the interactive process.

Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face.

We’ve made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S.

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.