Staff Accountant

Staff Accountant – Corporate Finance

Elderwood Administrative ServicesWilliamsville, NY | Full-Time | Fully Onsite

 Excel Skills Required

Elderwood Administrative Services is seeking a Staff Accountant with a strong foundation in financial accounting and practical, hands-on Excel skills. This role requires someone who is comfortable working with journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, financial statements, and detailed financial data - not simply someone seeking their first exposure to these concepts.

Working onsite with our Corporate Finance team, you will support financial operations across a diverse healthcare organization that includes skilled nursing, assisted living, pediatric specialty care, and pharmacy operations. You will have direct exposure to facility leaders, operational partners, and executive leadership while developing a broad understanding of the business behind the numbers.

• Broader business exposure: Support multiple healthcare settings, operating entities, and service lines.

• Meaningful financial work: Prepare and analyze information used by facility leaders and executive leadership.

• Direct collaboration: Work closely with finance colleagues, administrators, and department leaders to understand results and resolve financial questions.

• Professional development: Expand your experience in monthly close, financial reporting, variance analysis, budgeting, audit preparation, and healthcare operations.

If you are an accounting professional who understands the fundamentals, enjoys working in Excel, and wants broader exposure to the financial and operational sides of a healthcare organization, we invite you to apply.

What You’ll Do As a Staff Accountant:

• Perform monthly financial accounting and analysis for assigned companies.
• Prepare internal financial statements for operational leaders and external financial statements for lenders.
• Analyze financial performance, including budget variances and month-over-month trends.
• Present monthly operating results and financial insights to facility leadership and the executive team.
• Support the monthly close process for multiple companies, including expense accruals, adjusting entries, and balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Partner with facility administrators and department leaders to review financial reports, budget comparisons, and operating results.
• Assist with annual budget preparation.
• Prepare audit workpapers and supporting schedules for external auditors.
• Contribute to special projects and other financial initiatives as needed.

Qualifications Needed for Success as a Staff Accountant

• Demonstrated understanding of foundational financial accounting concepts, including debits and credits, journal entries, accrual accounting, account reconciliations, and the relationship among financial statements.

• Practical experience supporting monthly close and preparing or reviewing journal entries and balance-sheet reconciliations.

• Strong working proficiency with Microsoft Office 365, with heavy use of Excel.

• Ability to use Excel to organize and analyze financial information, including formulas, sorting and filtering, pivot tables, and lookup functions.

• Ability to review financial results, identify discrepancies, investigate underlying causes, and communicate findings clearly.

• Strong attention to detail, organization, and follow-through.

• Ability to explain financial information clearly to both accounting and operational partners.

• Ability to work collaboratively in a fully onsite corporate environment.

• Experience with accounting or enterprise financial software.

• Experience with Sage Intacct and/or Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains.