Description
UCLA HEALTH
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Description
Join one of the nation’s most respected academic health systems and contribute your accounting expertise to a team that supports UCLA Health’s mission of excellence in patient care, education, and research. The Accountant 2 provides professional accounting support to the Assistant Director of Accounting within the Faculty Practice Group’s Finance Department.
In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial data, performing month-end close activities, and preparing internal and external reports that support operational and strategic decision-making across the organization. Key Responsibilities include:
- Prepare and post journal entries to the general ledger for the month-end close process
- Coordinate with internal departments and external partners to ensure timely and accurate data flow
- Assist with monthly financial reporting and annual budget
- Support the development of systems and processes to improve accounting accuracy and efficiency
- Participate in special projects and ad hoc analyses as assigned
Salary Range: $29.17 – $56.37 Hourly
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree with a major in accounting, business administration or closely related field or a combination of equivalent education, training and experience
- Two years of progressively accounting experience or equivalent is required
- Working knowledge of University accounting policies and procedures and ability to read and understand University ledgers is highly preferred
- Government accounting experience is preferred
- Possess a thorough understanding of generally accepted accounting principles
- Working knowledge of fund accounting and healthcare accounting is preferred
- Written communication skills to prepare clear and concise correspondence at a level appropriate for the intended audience
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with staff within the Accounting department, with other office personnel and with outside departments.
- Knowledge of management reporting and financial statement preparation.
- Skill in keying data into the existing computer system accurately and quickly.
- Ability to set and adjust priorities to meet recurring deadlines
- Ability to work independently and follow through assignments
- Demonstrated skill in financial analysis
- Demonstrated ability to reconcile departmental records to system reports
- Ability to comply with Departmental Financial Policies and Procedural manual