HOURS
Full Time, 40 hours/week, Days
Mon-Fri, 8 hour work day- flexible start time with core business hours being 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
No nights, holidays, or weekends, with the exception of an occasional weekend during financial closing process when necessary to close timely.
Home base location of St. Luke's Center in Allentown, PA.
Remote work available for local (PA, NJ) candidates after training.
Experience with Workday General ledger would be preferred, as would healthcare related accounting work experience.
The Senior Accountant is a professional level position whose essential responsibility is to provide technical accounting review and guidance to assure reliability of the St. Luke’s Health Network and Controlled Entities financial statements. Evaluates that Network-wide accounting treatment is documented and compliant with FASB, GAAP, not-for profit requirements and SAS 112 standards. Audits balance sheet items to ensure they are properly supported and accounting treatment is consistent and accurate. Assists in the execution of the annual financial and other audit engagements.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Reviews internal controls to assure reliability of financial statements and that accounting treatment is documented and compliant with FASB, GAAP, not-for profit requirements and other Accounting standards.
Prepares asset, liability, and capital or net asset account entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
Recommends financial actions by analyzing accounting options.
Maintains accounting controls by preparing and recommending policies and procedures.
Reconciles financial discrepancies by collecting and analyzing account information.
Maintains financial security by ensuring appropriate internal controls are in place and working. Interprets new accounting guidance and evaluates its impact on financial reporting. Documents its treatment and develops procedures to ensure compliance if adopted. Researches technical accounting issues and writes internal “white papers” for complex and significant non-recurring transactions.
Prepare annual financial audit workpapers and provide assistance to external auditors.
Prepares special financial reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends.
Audits balance sheet items to ensure they are properly supported and accounting treatment is consistent and accurate.
PHYSICAL AND SENSORY REQUIREMENTS:
Sitting up to minimum 7.5 hours per day. Continuously uses fingers and hands for data entry, etc. Uses upper extremities to lift up to 30 pounds. Frequently stoops, bends, and reaches above shoulder level. Hearing as it relates to normal conversation and telephone. Seeing as it relates to general vision, near vision and peripheral vision. Visual monotony when reading reports and viewing computer screen.
EDUCATION:
Bachelors Degree in Accounting or Business Management preferred.
TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:
CPA/MBA preferred. Professional auditing experience preferred. Multi-entity inter-company accounting and consolidation experience required.
Please complete your application using your full legal name and current home address. Be sure to include employment history for the past seven (7) years, including your present employer. Additionally, you are encouraged to upload a current resume, including all work history, education, and/or certifications and licenses, if applicable. It is highly recommended that you create a profile at the conclusion of submitting your first application. Thank you for your interest in St. Luke's!!
Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 23,000 employees providing services at 16 campuses and 350+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue of $4 billion, the Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital. Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke’s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley’s first and only four-year medical school campus. It also operates the nation’s longest continuously operating School of Nursing, established in 1884, and over 50 fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with more than 500 residents and fellows. In 2022, St. Luke’s, a member of the Children’s Hospital Association, opened the Lehigh Valley’s first and only free-standing facility dedicated entirely to kids. SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital. The Network’s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Premier 13 times total and eleven years in a row, including in 2023 when it was identified as THE #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY.
