Accountant I

Job Description

Accountant I | Alameda Health System

The Tone:
This is an Accountant I role at Alameda Health System, an organization dedicated to healthcare. This position involves performing varied and complex technical accounting work, encompassing the preparation of analytical, narrative, statistical, and accounting reports. As a skilled and experienced accounting professional, the Accountant I operates with a high degree of independence, requiring minimal technical supervision. This role is fundamental to maintaining accurate financial records, which includes the critical task of reviewing and approving a range of financial documents such as vouchers, warrants, purchase orders, and requisitions. The integrity of these records directly supports the system’s operational and fiscal health.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person

• Team: Works independently, may supervise clerical staff.
• Mission: Maintains accurate financial records and prepares comprehensive accounting and statistical reports to support the organization’s fiscal functions.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Fiscal Record Management: Execute diverse accounting functions to maintain comprehensive fiscal records. This includes examining, verifying, approving, and screening critical financial documents such as requisitions, purchase orders, receiving records, and invoice transactions within both subsidiary and general ledgers. Additionally, this role involves the preparation of accurate trial balances, thorough reconciliations, and detailed worksheets.
• Staff Oversight and Development: Potentially assume supervisory responsibilities for clerical staff engaged in essential fiscal record-keeping activities. This may involve guiding them in making ledger entries, performing reconciliations, preparing trial balances, and maintaining payroll records. Key supervisory tasks include assigning and reviewing clerical work, training new employees, evaluating performance, and making informed recommendations on personnel matters.
• Reporting and Analysis: Develop and produce a wide variety of detailed factual, analytical, statistical, and narrative accounting reports specifically for the department. These reports provide crucial insights into financial performance and status.
• Cash Operations: Manage daily cash summaries by accurately recording cash receipts and classifying them according to appropriate funds. This responsibility also extends to collecting, disbursing, and meticulously maintaining records for claims and various miscellaneous revenues and accounts.
• General Accounting Support: Perform other related duties as assigned by management, ensuring overall support for the department’s accounting functions and operational needs.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A Bachelor’s degree obtained from an accredited college or university is required. The degree should include focused coursework in accounting, finance, or another closely related field to provide foundational knowledge.
• Experience: Candidates must possess one (1) to two (2) years of full-time professional accounting experience. This experience should demonstrate the ability to perform complex technical accounting work and handle diverse financial documentation.
• Skills: Proven proficiency in technical accounting principles and practices, including the examination, verification, and approval of financial documents such as vouchers, warrants, purchase orders, and requisitions. Demonstrated ability in maintaining subsidiary and general ledgers, preparing trial balances, and executing complex reconciliations. Strong skills in generating detailed analytical, statistical, and narrative accounting reports, alongside experience in cash receipt summary and classification, and potentially supervising clerical accounting staff.