Staff Accountant

Job Description

Staff Accountant | Provation

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Provation, located in Minneapolis, MN. Provation is a leading provider of healthcare software and SaaS solutions focused on clinical productivity, care coordination, quality reporting, and billing. This position plays a critical role in supporting the financial health and operational integrity of our public healthcare SaaS organization. The Staff Accountant will contribute to a mission-driven organization focused on improving healthcare outcomes through technology by ensuring financial data is timely, accurate, and aligned with both healthcare and SaaS industry standards.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Minneapolis, MN
• Pay: $51300–$85700 yearly
• Mission: Own month-end close processes, financial reporting, treasury, accounts payable, and related expense processes, while maintaining robust internal controls.
• Tech Stack: NetSuite, Tipalti, Microsoft Excel (formulas, sorting, pivot tables)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Month-End Close Management: Independently manage assigned areas of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring the timely and accurate generation of financial results. This includes executing and analyzing journal entries, reconciliations, and account analyses as a core part of the procedures.
• Accounts Payable & Expense Oversight: Efficiently review and accurately enter vendor invoices, ensuring appropriate coding and supporting documentation is in place, and routing them for approval. This involves maintaining the Accounts Payable inbox, responding to inquiries promptly, creating and maintaining accurate vendor master files, and preparing and processing weekly payment runs.
• Employee Expense & Credit Card Reconciliation: Review employee expense reports, assisting with related questions to ensure all expenses are in alignment with corporate travel policy. Additionally, reconcile monthly credit card statements for company-issued credit cards to maintain financial accuracy.
• Internal Controls & Compliance: Assist with the administration of the Company’s Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance framework. This includes the timely completion and thorough documentation of assigned controls, as well as actively performing tests of controls to ensure operational integrity.
• System Utilization & Improvement: Comfortably use accounting software such as NetSuite and Tipalti, and leverage strong Excel skills, including formulas, sorting, and pivot tables. This role also involves a willingness to learn new systems and identify continuous improvement opportunities within current processes and systems to enhance efficiency and accuracy.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or another relevant field, with familiarity with GAAP and basic financial reporting principles.
• Experience: A minimum of one year of relevant work experience, with exposure to accounting software (e.g., NetSuite or similar) and basic to intermediate Microsoft Excel. Experience working in a team environment or cross-functional projects is also required.
• Skills: High attention to detail, strong analytical capabilities, clear written and verbal communication, and effective problem-solving skills. The ability to operate effectively and be adaptable in a dynamic, evolving environment, alongside an openness to feedback and continuous improvement, is essential.
• Bonus: Progress toward CPA certification or an interest in pursuing certification.