Entry-Level Accountant

Job Description

Staff Accountant | AMSURG

The Tone:
This is a full-time, Remote-Centric Hybrid role at AMSURG, located in Nashville, TN, requiring occasional in-office presence 2-3 times a month. AMSURG is a nationally recognized leader in the strategic and operational management of over 250 ambulatory surgery centers across the U.S., partnering with physicians and health systems to deliver the highest standards of patient care and quality. This entry-level Staff Accountant position is crucial for managing the comprehensive financial health of assigned ambulatory surgery centers, ensuring accurate daily accounting activity, monthly financial reporting, precise cash management, and thorough budget analysis that directly supports AMSURG’s mission to put the patient first through clinician-led care.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid, Nashville, TN

• Mission: Owns the accounting and financial functions for assigned ambulatory surgery centers, including oversight of daily activity, monthly financial reporting, cash management, bank reconciliations, and budget analysis.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Financial Oversight & Support: Serve as the primary resource for assigned surgery center personnel regarding all financial issues, providing guidance and support for accurate financial practices and best practices when irregularities are identified.
• Comprehensive Financial Reporting: Prepare and generate all necessary general ledger journal entries to create financial statements, including cash flow statements for assigned centers, ensuring their accuracy and completeness, and presenting work papers.
• Cash & Bank Management: Manage the full cycle of cash inflow and outflow for assigned surgery centers, including maintaining the proprietary cash management system and facilitating the movement of funds to appropriate bank accounts, alongside reconciling all bank accounts from statements to the general ledger, investigating and correcting differences, and identifying process or control issues.
• Analysis & Reconciliation: Analyze end-of-month financial packages, income statement trends, balance sheet accounts, and recorded accounts receivable balances, creating appropriate general ledger entries, reporting large variations to management, preparing notes for review of financial reports, and performing reconciliations as needed.
• Asset & Payroll Administration: Reconcile fixed asset costs and accumulated depreciation accounts to depreciation schedules, review physical inventory counts, create appropriate general ledger entries for inventory, and analyze, record, and research variations in center payroll and benefits activity, facilitating transitions when necessary, while also interpreting legal agreements such as leases and debt maintenance.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from an accredited College or University; Entry-Level career.
• Experience: No specific years required; public accounting, industry, or healthcare experience is a plus.
• Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills, detail-oriented, organized, high integrity, ability to maintain confidential information, good judgment, and capability to handle multiple, simultaneous tasks effectively and efficiently.
• Bonus: Ability to work a flexible schedule, including some evenings and weekends, as approved in advance based on business need.