Accounting Manager (Healthcare)

About This Role

An Accounting Manager with a focus on healthcare clients is needed to join a growing small business accounting team. This role involves refining skills across various industries, with a particular emphasis on medical, dental, and veterinary practices. It suits a professional who enjoys continuous learning, client-facing interactions, and mentoring junior staff on the impact of accounting in the business world.

Responsibilities

• Execute engagements from start to finish by coordinating all phases, including planning, field work, review process, and communication to the client
• Follow the progress of the work during an engagement in relation to budgeted time expenses and scheduled dates of completion
• Determine whether all phases of the engagement are carried out properly and in the best sequence, to anticipate problem areas and questions that will arise
• Supervise the preparation of all work products to be provided to the client
• Maintain continuous contact with clients throughout the business year and develop a thorough understanding of the client and all facets of their business
• Act as main contact for new client onboarding
• Evaluate internal controls prepared by the staff
• Keep the In-Charge informed of important developments in the work
• Communicate any major problems that occur with all the facts, conclusions, and recommendations
• Prepare monthly billings
• Maintain confidentiality with client information in accordance with related laws and regulations and adhere to all SVA policies and procedures
• Ensure all duties are performed efficiently and to a satisfactory level, typically requiring 55 hours/week during busy season (including weekends), and 40-45 hours/week during non-busy season
• Assign work to staff members on the basis of their knowledge and capabilities
• Prepare and discuss staff performance evaluations
• Participate in the training of staff members; offer guidance and direction and give constructive feedback of work papers
• Effectively lead others, and be actively involved with staff development, take ownership of staff engagement and retention
• Conduct stay interviews and work with leadership to resolve any themes
• Identify need for staff recruitment, actively participate in interview panels
• As appropriate, transfer the client relationship to junior staff to ensure the right work is being performed at each level
• Identify poor/low performers and have difficult/direct conversations to manage those individuals up/out with a focus on retaining qualified and quality staff members
• Provide individualized and meaningful recognition to staff members, focusing on intrinsic rewards
• Ensure career pathways “heatmaps” of direct reports are accurate and reflective of the work performed