Senior Accountant - Performance Services

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Summary:

In this role, you will manage complex accounting, regulations, auditing, identifying and compliance reporting. You will also review and incorporate work products of team members to provide recommendations to stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Read and understand accounting-related clauses in our custom contracts as well as other various legally executed documents.

• Follow company revenue recognition & accounting policies.

• Manage custom contract data in an ERP system to allow for billing and revenue recognition processing, including but not limited toproject system setup and maintenance of billing and revenue amortization schedules.

• Monthly review of ledger and accounts for compliance with accounting standards with focus on contract accounting.

• Monthly interactions with various internal departments, including but not limited to Billing, Collections, Operations, Finance and Business Units.

• Assure timely and accurate reporting of all financial transactions.

• Participate and/or lead special projects (ex: study and recommend accounting methods, procedures; ad-hoc reporting requests; department goals).

• Follow internal controls to ensure integrity of the financial statements.

• Explain Fluctuations of financial statements to include income statements, balance sheets and budget forecasts.

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree in accounting preferred.

• 5 or more years of relevant experience in accounting with the ability to interpret contracts, allocate revenue streams and understand accounting literature is required.

• CPA Certified preferred.

• Knowledge and use of ASC 606 Revenue Recognition compliance and standards.

• Proficient/Strong Excel skills required.

• Experience working in a public accounting firm and/or in public health is a plus.

• Experience with Workday or other Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems is a plus.

• Significant understanding of revenue accrual accounting.

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This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

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Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.