Hybrid Senior Accountant

at AMSURG

• Job title: Senior Accountant
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Remote, United States

About the role

• Senior Accountant responsible for M&A accounting workstreams related to entity transactions. Performing GAAP compliance and onboarding/offboarding of entities while collaborating with various departments.

Responsibilities

• Remote-Centric Hybrid: Teammates primarily work from home but go to the office 1-2 times a month.
• The Senior Accountant of M&A Accounting is responsible for preparing and managing accounting workstreams related to entity acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, and joint venture contributions.
• This role ensures accurate and timely accounting in compliance with GAAP and supports the successful onboarding and offboarding of entities.
• Reporting to the M&A Lead, the position requires technical expertise in purchase and transaction accounting, along with the ability to interpret deal structures and their accounting implications.
• The Sr Accountant must effectively manage multiple concurrent transactions, ensuring timely and accurate ledger entries.
• Additionally, this role offers opportunities to contribute to process improvements, financial analysis, and other strategic initiatives.
• Prepare general ledger journal entries.
• Ability to onboard and offboard entities, including: Accounting due diligence – obtain and review seller financials and billing reports to identify concerns or risk.
• Interpret legal agreements to ensure accurate accounting treatment.
• Integration of new entities onto AMSURG platforms and processes.
• Timely and accurate completion of post close adjustments.
• Monitor status of any transition service agreements.
• Complete deconsolidation entries and cash analyses.
• Manage entity cash and complete net working capital calculations.
• Attend pre and post transaction calls.
• Identify and recommend improvements to process or control issues for newly acquired entities.
• Conduct income statement trend analysis for entities and prepare commentary for review of center’s financial reports.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies identified through monthly reconciliations.
• Coordinate successful transition of newly acquired entities to center accounting team.
• Train center business office staff on policies and procedures related to accounts receivable and accounts payable.
• Collaborate and work effectively with other departments including Finance, Operations, Legal and leadership.
• Ability to track multiple complex transactions on different timelines.
• Analyze, explain, and report significant fluctuations in new entity activity.
• Participate in monthly management meetings discussing departments policies and procedures.
• Actively engage in process improvement initiatives within the Center of Excellence (COE).
• Support special projects and ad hoc requests as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting from an accredited college or university is required.
• Minimum of 3 years accounting experience, and M&A experience a plus.
• CPA eligibility required.
• Experience applying the provisions of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Ability to maintain project tracking timely
• Advanced knowledge and ability to use window office suite programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.); as well as ability to learn various Accounting and reporting software.
• Smartsheet & IBM Planning & Analytics experience is a plus but not required
• Ability to understand, read, write, and speak English.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Opportunity for professional development
• Flexible work arrangements