Staff Grant Accountant

Hebrew SeniorLife employees set the highest standard in our commitment to redefine the experience of aging. With compassion, resilience, and determination, we make a difference in the lives of patients, residents, their families, and the broad senior care community every day. And they in ours as well. These life-changing connections give our work meaning and fuel our desire to advance our potential. To be all that we can be. At Hebrew SeniorLife, that’s uniquely possible. Because here we’re supported to always keep growing. And as we do, so does our collective impact.

Our benefits include:

• Excellent medical and dental benefits, available on your first day for positions over 24 hours/week
• A 403b retirement plan open to all employees, including per diems
• Generous paid time off
• On-site health and wellness programming
• Tuition reimbursement and scholarships
• An employee recognition program

The Staff Accountant is a key position within the supportive housing fiscal and real-estate offices. The Staff Accountant maintains and controls the General Ledger accounts and business transactions of the organization, applying the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) that includes analytical work and thorough review of financial records.

• Assist the fiscal team with the day-to day, monthly and year-end operations of the Accounting/ Finance Department including budget review and analysis.
• Manages grants across the supportive housing portfolio
• Assists with the development of Real Estate proforma
• Manage the processing of cash receipts, recording of revenue and receivable and maintaining a daily cash receipts log.
• Review and process Credit Card reports and receipts submitted by cardholders on monthly basis.
• Perform the processing of functional and benefits expense allocations, monthly accruals, amortization of prepaid expenses, fixed assets depreciation and recording of adjusting and reclassification journal entries, if necessary.
• Prepare and analyze the monthly budget/forecast to actual variance reports per program and department.
• Perform general accounts analysis and reconciliations, including bank statements, fixed assets, employer’s benefit costs, accruals and prepaid expenses.
• Assist in the preparation of financial reports such as financial statements, budget performance, and various ad hoc reports.
• Assist other departments with questions and accounting issues and communicate effectively with non-accounting personnel.
• Organize and maintain fiscal record archives.
• Assist in preparing reports and account analyses in connection with the year-end audit.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from a fully accredited four year university or college, or Associates degree in Accounting with related experience.
• Experience with real-estate accounting and grants management.
• Demonstrated theoretical and practical knowledge of accounting concepts, practices and procedures; demonstrated competence in pertinent computer applications and systems.
• Demonstrate proficiency in using a personal computer, including knowledge and skill in the use of the Windows operating system and pertinent software applications such as:
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word
  • General Ledger and other accounting software for a medium sized corporation.
  • Workday
  • Yardi