Accountant

Job description
Orion Associates
Aligning Dreams and Opportunities

Join our Finance Team as an Accountant!

Location: Golden Valley, MN

Schedule: Full time Monday-Friday with flexibility in choice of set hours - option for hybrid work schedule after +0 days

Wage: $72,000 annually plus a comprehensive benefits package

Company Perks
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• FSA & HSA options.
• 401k option immediately with company match after 1 year of employment.
• Generous PTO plans, available immediately.
• Paid holidays
• Company culture that embraces the spirit of volunteerism and helping others.
• Other insurance options include: Life, Short-Term Disability, Pet.
• Casual Fridays at corporate offices.
• Dog-friendly corporate offices.
• Wednesday Snack Days at corporate offices.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Fun employee engagement opportunities: summer picnic, bags tournament, virtual bingo, spirit week.
• Employee of the month recognition.
• On-site childcare center for employees’ children at reasonable tuition rates.

Responsibilities
• Oversees monthly financial closing for multiple companies, including analyzing income and expense accounts, posting allocations and accruals, and preparing financial statements, schedules, and reports.
• Analyzes variances and makes recommendations.
• Completes balance sheet reconciliations.
• Oversees banking functions and funding.
• Sets up and retires depreciable assets.
• Maintains insurance policies, property and auto claims, and participates in annual workers’ compensation audit.
• Creates annual budgets for multiple companies by working with other departments to make decisions and plan while assessing financial goals.
• Calculates client billing rates and staffing needs.
• Assists in annual company audit.
• Completes census reporting, unclaimed property reporting, and any relevant State and Medicaid audits.
• Ensures compliance with Federal, State, Local, Medicaid, and Healthcare Agency regulations.

Required Qualifications
• Education: 4-year Accounting or related business degree, or 2-year Accounting degree with 3-5 years’ job experience in a related role.
• Computer Skills: This position requires use of multiple computer systems and heavy spreadsheet usage. Ideal candidates are skilled with basic universal computer programs and the Microsoft suite as well as comfortable learning new programs.
• Must be familiar with Excel and comfortable with complex formulas.
• Must be organized and be able to prioritize tasks based on multiple deadlines.
• Must possess excellent communication skills and be comfortable talking to individuals served, Case Managers, Minnesota State and County representatives, auditors, other professionals in the field, and the general public.
• Must have schedule flexibility, particularly during annual budget season and during annual audits.
• Must have the ability to plan, organize, develop, and implement department missions, goals, and objectives; operating policies and procedures; internal management and resource structures; budget operations and allocations; personnel and workforce factors.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English communication

Additional Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with Great Plains, Crystal Reports, and Mfiles.
• Knowledge/background of social services and the field of developmental disabilities.
• Audit experience.
• Knowledge of insurance such as liability, workers’ compensation, property, and auto.

ORION ASSOCIATES is a management services company that is committed to providing our clients with services of the highest quality. We are unique in that we provide our management services as a company that truly understands the field of human services. Orion Associates has spent more than 20 years serving people with intellectual disabilities, mental health diagnoses, the elderly, and their families. Our mission is for the people we serve to be able to realize their dreams, and we do that by providing services of the finest quality. Creativity, innovation, and expertise are highly valued among our team. We hold ourselves to the highest ethics, maintain excellent standards and always strive to do our best. Above all, we work to uphold a tradition of exceptional service and care for others.

Orion Associates is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer that embraces and supports the diversity of all individuals. We respect and welcome people of different ethnicities, ages, genders, religions, races, classes, physical abilities, mental abilities, nationalities, ****** preferences, and expressions.

ORION ASSOCIATES is a Minnesota Business' Top 100 Best Companies to work for!

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