Accountant III

Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, is a 22-state network of more than 9,000 physicians, 63,000 employees, and 400 care centers, including hospitals, urgent and occupational care, imaging and surgery centers, home health, and primary care clinics. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care with special attention to the poor and underserved. In FY17, Dignity Health provided $2.6 billion in charity care, community benefit, and unpaid cost of government programs. For more information, please visit our website at www.dignityhealth.org. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

LOCATION - Sacramento CA or Phoenix AZ

This position is responsible for performing intermediate and advanced level accountant, management reporting, and financial tasks for Dignity Health entities migrated to LAWSON. The position works in a cooperative team environment to provide value to internal and external customers.

The Accountant III will contribute to the development, implementation and maintenance of the department’s accounting and financial policies and procedures and will perform general accounting functions necessary to properly maintain the financial records of Dignity Health entities.

This position will prepare, enter and distribute, in a professional manner, general ledger journal entries, account reconciliations, account or sub-ledger analyses and other financial reports.
Additionally, the Account III will maintain and prepare file reports and schedules, annual tax returns and information for the annual audit. This position will perform other duties as assigned by the Accounting Manager.

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REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance required. 
• PC applications literacy required.
• Minimum of four plus years of progressive experience as an accountant in positions of increased responsibility, preferably in healthcare.
• Experience with and knowledge of current general ledger applications in a healthcare environment and/or Lawson application experience strongly preferred.
• CPA, CMA, or CIA preferred. 
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Self directed and requires minimal supervision.
• Leadership skills/some supervisory experience preferred.
• Able to handle a broad scope of responsibility, utilizing independent problem solving skills.
• Strong customer services skills required.

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