Junior Staff Accountant
New Season

Junior Staff Accountant

Job Description

New Season

Reports to: Accounting Manager

Job Code: 342

Department: Accounting

FLSA: Non-Exempt

Direct Reports: 0

For over 30 years, New Season Treatment Centers have been a leading national health care service provider of outpatient treatment centers that specialize in providing safe, quality and best in class care for individuals living with Opioid Use Disorder ("OUD").

Operating in over 70 treatment centers in multiple states, our team members are engaged in medication-assisted treatment, counseling, support, and care management of individuals living with OUD. We treat the whole person and, in so doing, address the underlying causes of OUD in an effort to provide a continuum of care that not only addresses treatment needs but supports the patient on their journey to recovery.

Job Summary:

This position primarily assists with bank reconciliations, other balance sheet account reconciliations, and variance analysis of the income statement.

Essential Functions:

• Performs monthly reconciliation of cash clearing accounts in cooperation with the Staff Accountant.
• Performs monthly reconciliation of bank accounts in cooperation with the Staff Account.
• Performs monthly detailed reconciliation and analysis of other balance sheet accounts as assigned by providing explanations to monthly trends.
• Actively participates in month-end closing by posting journal entries, and compiling and analyzing financial information in order to prepare financial statements and supporting schedules.
• Records, monitors, and proposes monthly accruals.
• Works independently and within a team on special non-recurring and ongoing projects.
• Other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities:

(Scope of the person's authority, including a list of jobs that report to this job).

None

Essential Qualifications:

(To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the competencies (minimum knowledge, skill, and ability) required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions).

Education/Licensure/Certification: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or related field.

Required Knowledge: Proficient in Microsoft Office products. Experience in Microsoft GP a plus. Experience in Methasoft a plus.

Experience Required: 1-3 years of accounting and general ledger experience.

Skill and Ability: Ability to work with both clinical and administrative personnel. Strong organizational skills with a keen ability to prioritize and mulit-task. Ability to adhere to and meet deadlines. Good communicator (oral and written) including the desire to ask questions and learn from co-workers. Strong administrative and data management skills. Ability to raise issues proactively and in a timely manner.

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

(The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

Finger Dexterity: Used primarily for writing, operating calculator, telephone, keyboard and other office equipment.

Talking: Used to convey detailed or important instructions to employees.

Hearing: Ability to hear normal conversations and receive ordinary information.

Vision: Average, ordinary, visual acuity necessary to work on a computer. Clear vision at 20 inches or less and distant vision at 20 feet or more.

Physical Strength: Sedentary work; sitting most of the time. Exerts up to 10 pounds of force occasionally.

Working Conditions:

(The working conditions described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Ability to operate in an open work area with moderate everyday noise.

Core Competencies:

➢ Approachability

➢ Change Management

➢ Communication (Verbal and Written)

➢ Ethics/Values/Integrity

➢ Influencing/Persuading

➢ Listening

➢ Problem Solving

➢ Strategic Planning/Thinking

Mental Activities:

(The mental activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

Reasoning Ability: Ability to resolve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form. Ability to maintain patient and treatment confidentiality.

Mathematics Ability: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumferences and volume.