Job Description
Position Overview
The Accounting Specialist will work closely with the Finance Team, and provide accounting expertise and financial support to the organization and its decision-making processes. Assumes key responsibilities for the analysis of financial issues and supports the month-end, quarterly and yearly close process. The Accounting Specialist will work with Finance Business Partners, HR, Business Office, Decision Support, Clinical and Non-Clinical programs and ensure the accuracy and integrity of the financial data reported is reflective of the hospital’s current state of operations.
Primary Responsibilities
Accounting
Participate in monthly, quarterly and annual close processes
Perform account analysis and reconciliations and posts adjustments / reclassifications as needed
Maintain and reconcile schedules for a variety of accounts and reconcile sub-ledger to general leger account balances
Perform bank reconciliations and update daily bank balances
Post monthly, quarterly and year-end entries and accruals, prepayments
Verify cost allocations according to organizations procedures
Updating of financial reports critical to month-end close; Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cashflow, Variance by portfolio
Assist with research and capital (NPCC, PCOP and other) requests
Assist with the annual external audit
Financial Planning and Analysis
Participate in preparation of annual forecasts, budgets and multi-year plans
Assist in analyzing and interpreting monthly budget variances with actual results
Provide ongoing support to Directors/Managers of administrative support departments; including the preparation of operating budgets
Provide information to internal clients relating to statistics, both regular and ad-hoc basis
Contribute to process improvement by enhancing and developing analysis, models, reports and dashboards by leveraging reporting tools
Other
Administrator for all SRM requests and Cost Centre hierarchy updates
Other ad-hoc duties as assigned by management
Experience
Minimum five (3-5) years’ progressive experience preferably with hospital healthcare experience
University degree in Accounting, Finance or Business
Working towards CPA designation
Experience analyzing financial data and preparing financial reports, statements and projections
Experience with SAP, SRM, Cognos reporting tools is considered an asset
Intermediate to advance excel skills, pivot tables, lookups, SUMIFs
Ability to prioritize tasks and responsibilities
Excellent analytical, problem solving abilities
Strong interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal)
Strong work ethic with a positive, can-do attitude and takes initiative
All employees of Michael Garron Hospital (MGH), a division of Toronto East Health Network (TEHN) [formerly Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH)] agree to work within the legislated practices of the Occupational Health and Safety Act of Ontario.
All employees of MGH are responsible to contribute to a transparent culture of patient and staff safety by adhering to and abiding by patient and staff safety policies and procedures set by MGH.
All employees are accountable for protecting the psychological health and safety of themselves and their co-workers through adherence to MGH's policies and practices.
Physical Work Environment
General office environment.
Hybrid model 3 days in office, 2 days remote
37.5 hours per week.
Work extra hours to meet monthly deadlines when required.
External job postings
If this position is of interest, please forward a copy of your resume, cover letter and salary expectations to: Ku Alagan, Manager Financial Planning and Reporting and Arun Mulackal, Manager of Capital and Treasury at Ku.Alagan@tehn.ca and Arun.Mulackal@tehn.ca respectively. Please state your Full name and the job title in the subject line when applying. Thank you for your interest.
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