Staff Accountant

Job Description

Staff Accountant | Beth Israel Lahey Health

The Tone:
This is a full-time hybrid role at Beth Israel Lahey Health, located in Charlestown, MA. Beth Israel Lahey Health is a growing healthcare organization with more than 35,000 people working together, including nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, and teachers. This role is integral to ensuring accurate financial reporting and analysis, directly supporting the organization’s mission of caring for and protecting patients, colleagues, and communities. By joining the growing BILH team, you’ll be making a difference in people’s lives.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid Boston, MA
• Pay: $58240–$78624 yearly
• Mission: This role ensures financial accuracy through journal entry processing, account analysis, statement preparation, and budget variance review for BILH entities.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Workday Financial Accounting Systems

What You’ll Actually Do
• Statement Preparation: Prepares monthly financial statements for entities, including Balance Sheet, Statement of Operations, Accounts Receivable Statement, Cash Forecast, Variance Analysis, and Account Analysis.
• General Ledger Management: Prepares journal entries and accruals to ensure the General Ledger reflects annual operations in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
• Financial Analysis: Investigates variances from budget on assigned operating accounts and performs detailed analysis of activity in various General Ledger accounts, including bank accounts and accounts receivable aged trial balances.
• Audit & Tax Support: Assists with the preparation of support schedules used by external auditors during the year-end audit and helps prepare supporting schedules utilized by the tax department.
• Operational Accounting: Assists with reconciliation of physical inventories, from count to General Ledger, determines reasons for differences, and reviews vendor invoice coding to make necessary accounting adjustments.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Associates Degree in Accounting or Finance; or a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Experience: 0-2 years of related work experience.
• Skills: Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access, and the ability to produce complex documents, perform analysis, and maintain databases.
• Bonus: Working knowledge of Workday Financial Accounting Systems.