Senior Accountant

Job description
Why Work Here?

Mission driven, great benefits and room for growth!

Why consider AORN, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, as the next place for your career as our Sr. Accountant? Because we’re innovative and all about quality and collaboration we’re continually seeking to enhance our offerings to allow us to better tailor to the needs of our nurse members while expanding our market position and growing revenue across our business and sales divisions.

Our mission is to define, support, and advocate for patient and staff safety through exemplary practice for each phase of perioperative nursing care using evidence-based guidelines, continuing education, and clinical practice resources. We collaborate with professional and regulatory organizations, industry leaders, and other health care partners who support our mission. Our culture is one of openness, teamwork, risk taking and being at the cutting edge of our field and we only look for employees who hold these same traits.

Values mean more to AORN than just bullets on a page. They drive our daily decisions and impact how we work as an organization:

Innovation: Taking courageous and bold actions for growth and sustainability.

Communication: Exemplifying respect, collaboration, transparency and honesty.

Quality: Ensuring accountability and excellence.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion: Promoting fairness, valuing differences, considering all perspectives.

Achievement: Achieving our mission, realizing the vision.

The Sr. Accountant will be a key player in improving and revamping all monthly reconciliation and reports by using advanced Excel skills and possible AI templates. This role is responsible for senior duties associated with the full cycle accounting tasks for the AORN Foundation (501-C3). This includes duties related to journal entries, reconciliations, and financial statement preparation. This role is responsible for properly reviewing day to day tasks, monthly reports, and reconciliations as they relate to the AMS System/Nimble. This role is the expected to be the subject matter expert for the organization in these accounting aspects of the AMS/Nimble System. This role will be expected to proficient in all the systems used by the accounting department, including MS Dynamics SL, Nimble, BI360-Solver, and Certinia (Salesforce).

AORN is based in Denver, CO. Our Sr. Accountant will work in a hybrid capacity with 2-3 days in the office each month.

More about what you’ll get to do as our Sr. Accountant:
• Serve as the primary accountant for the AORN Foundation subsidiary.
• Manage monthly tasks related to the Foundation, including bank reconciliations.
• Prepare the Foundation monthly financial reports and analyses.
• Assist in Grant Tracking Schedules for Foundation.
• Streamline monthly reconciliations to enhance automation.
• Manage the processing of daily batching for AMS System for AORN and its Subsidiary.
• Complete monthly AMS close and upload journal entries for both companies.
• Prepare monthly bank reconciliations for the eCommerce site in the AMS.
• Review and report products sold in the AMS system, including forecasting.
• Prepare monthly dues entry and analyses as needed, including forecasts.
• Complete and prepare budget schedules with department leader of assigned budgets.
• Reconcile and analyze assigned balance sheet accounts.
• Assist in preparing year-end audit related work papers.
• Provide back up support as necessary to other accounting staff.
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned.

Must Have’s to be our Sr. Accountant:

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• 4-7 years of experience in a general accounting role.
• Proficiency with Excel, including Macros, pivot tables, cleanup tools, and automation tools.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• CPA License or candidate a plus
• Experience with accounting and budgeting software including Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, Certinia, BI360 Solver, and Nimble
• Previous experience with payroll and payroll allocations.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
• Proficient with MS Office and Windows applications, advanced experience in Excel required for analysis, reporting, spreadsheet design.
• Thorough understanding of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
• Professional level written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, combined with the capability to accept interruptions or change in job focus based on change in priorities.
• Aptitude for working in detail while understanding “the big picture.”
• Ability to function independently and make decisions on daily business matters.
• Ability to interact professionally with different levels of staff. Effective organization skills including the ability to work under tight time constraints using time management and prioritization skills to consistently meet deadlines.
• Strong problem-solving skills including the ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations where limited standards exist, ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to calculate discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, and percentages as well as the ability to apply the concepts of fractions, percentages, or ratios to practical situations.
• Ability to keep restricted information confidential.
• Ability to demonstrate and hold others accountable for organizational values of: Innovation, Communication, Quality, Diversity, Equity and inclusion, and Achievement.

Hiring Salary Range: $8+,000 - $+7,000 annually

FLSA Status: Exempt

BENEFITS:

For Full-Time Employees (30+ hours per week):
• Health insurance package options including a HDHP plan and a PPO plan.
• Dental and vision coverage.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Healthcare Savings Account (HSA) options.
• Employer-paid short- and long-term disability, accidental death and dismemberment, and life insurance coverage.
• Voluntary Life Insurance options including critical illness and accident insurance.
• 401(k) plan with immediate vesting.
• Pet insurance.
• LinkedIn Learning access.
• Paid time off and 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid sick time.
• Paid parental leave.
• Free subscription to Calm.
• Up to 8 hours of paid volunteer time.
• Employee Assistance Programs.
• Staff Incentive Program.

Working Conditions

This position requires the use of computer daily. Attendance at scheduled meetings as required. Open to occasional travel as needed to support Association activities.

Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

AORN provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, ****** orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. We encourage people with disabilities and from other diverse backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate based on disability.