Job Description

The Senior Accountant will be responsible for managing the financial records of certain Lifespark’s business units, including journal entry preparation and posting, managed community invoicing and related reconciliations, month end close ownership, general account reconciliations, financial reviews and various other accounting responsibilities. Additionally, they will work closely with our broader accounting team to ensure we are collaboratively and optimally supporting our stakeholders. This person will also be responsible for completing monthly and/or other project tasks as assigned and seeking out and implementing process improvement opportunities.

Position: Senior Accountant

Salary: $75,000 - $82,000 annually, depending on experience

Service Area: St. Louis Park, MN 55416

Schedule: 1.0 FTE, Full - Time / Monday – Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm

Lifespark Benefits Include:

• Annual Reviews/Raises {Shift differentials if applicable}

• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time

• Mileage reimbursement

• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires

• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance

• Life Insurances

• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees

• Referral bonuses

• Career path to other positions within our growing company!

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Position Functions and Responsibilities

• Prepare and manage invoicing for managed community expenses, as well as monthly staffing and management fees, ensuring accuracy, proper allocation, and timely processing.

• Identify and implement process improvement opportunities to streamline the managed community invoicing process and related transactions.

• End to end ownership of the accounting functions specific to assigned Lifespark business units, including, but not limited to:

  • Journal entry preparation and posting

  • Monthly account reconciliation preparation and documentation

  • Month end analytical reviews of revenue and expenses

  • All other month end close processes for assigned business units

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of Lifespark’s and its managed community’s general ledger account structures and coding frameworks, ensuring accurate, consistent, and policy-compliant transaction recording.

• Collaborate with accounts payable on invoicing, accruals, prepaid expenses, and managed community accounts payable transactions, ensuring financial activity is captured accurately and timely.

• Conduct monthly meetings with our managed community accounting team to review accounts receivable balances, agings, and any invoice related reconciling items, ensuring timely resolution of any outstanding issues.

• Maintain adequate documentation to support financial statements, account reconciliations, and journal entries

• Support year end audit, tax preparation, and compliance needs, including timely and accurate workpaper preparation and other ad hoc requests as applicable.

• Research open accounting and compliance issues, document findings, and assist with identifying solutions to those issues

• Identify and implement other process improvement and automation opportunities within the accounting team

• Other duties may include:

  • Other general ledger account reconciliations, as assigned

  • Actively participating in implementation projects and partnering with other business areas

  • Other duties as assigned

• Assist with other monthly accounting duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Experience & Education

• Minimum of 5 years in accounting or related field

• Intermediate understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

• Intermediate understanding of financial systems

• Experience working with purchase orders and vendor management

• Healthcare experience preferred

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired.

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

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