Rutherford Regional Health System is a 143-bed acute care facility that offers a broad array of inpatient and outpatient care. Rutherford Regional is dedicated to providing patients with a full range of services to meet their healthcare needs. We provide our services in a caring, professional environment through the teamwork of our medical staff and employees.
Rutherford Regional Health System’s partnership with Duke LifePoint Healthcare is bringing the pieces together to transform healthcare in Rutherford County. Duke LifePoint Healthcare is a joint venture of Duke University Health System, one of the country’s leading academic health systems, and LifePoint Health, a leading healthcare company dedicated to Making Communities Healthier. These two forces joined because of the shared interest in collaborating with hospitals, healthcare providers and patients to bring high quality, innovative healthcare services to communities. Duke LifePoint combines Duke’s unparalleled expertise in clinical excellence and quality care with LifePoint's extensive resources and knowledge and experience operating community hospitals and healthcare organizations.
Assists with the planning, coordination and administration of general accounting activities of the organization. Responsible for pursuing and implementing innovative approaches to data collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation in order to support planning and decision making at all levels of the organization and assist in managing data as a strategic resource. Assist in developing, generating and maintaining benchmarks, trend and variance reports, as well as other requested output from the organization on both an ad hoc and on going basis.
Essential Functions:Assist in compilation of statistics and financial data used in preparing the hospital budget and Medicare cost report.Works with hospital's independent auditors and Medicare auditors during annual audits.Assist Controller in coordinating, supervising, and reviewing the accounting activities for Rutherford Hospital, and has sole responsibility for general accounting for the owned physician practices monthly and annual financial reports including the lead role in budget preparation.Ensures departmental and organizational compliance with current accounting standards, hospital policies and applicable laws and regulations.Assist as needed in gathering data and preparing hospital operating budget with input from administration and department directors.Insure timely distribution of all data required by Escheat Department of NCDR for the Escheat Report annually filing and works direction with the company assigned by the HSC to monitor the proper reporting.Assists in preparing, reviewing and filing required governmental information returns - Property Tax Listings – and any other as requested by Hospital management.Assists Controller in writing, reviewing and maintaining department policies and procedures that are not part of the Corporate APG’s.Correspond and communicate with external agencies on behalf of Rutherford Hospital and owned physician:Minimum EducationBachelor's Degree in Accounting, finance or business or equivalent is preferred.Required SkillsRequires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
Extensive experience using Microsoft Excel.Minimum Work Experience3-5 years accounting/finance experience required (preferably in Physician Practice or Healthcare setting).Benefits - Wide range of benefits options!
Here at Rutherford Regional, you choose your own Medical, Dental, and Vision plans from a variety of competitive options that give you the coverage that best fits your needs.
HSA
401(K) retirement plan contributions
Generous Paid Time Off
Accident & Critical Illness Insurance
Prescription Assistance with OptumRx
Income protection programs for the entire family such as life insurance, Short/Long-term Disability, and Identity Theft.
Employee Assistance program at no cost to you to provide emotional, legal, financial, and daily life support for your entire household. Services are available 24 hrs. a day, 7 days a week.
Free travel and entertainment discount program to ensure you enjoy your time away from work.
Why join our team?
We are dedicated to providing patients with a full range of services to meet their healthcare needs, and we believe our employees are our most valuable assets in accomplishing this goal. Rutherford Regional is growing its team of dedicated health care professionals. If you are looking to start a /career that cares/, are passionate about changing lives, and ready to work in a supportive environment in a close-knit community, apply today!Equal opportunity and affirmative action employers and are looking for diversity in candidates for employment: Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected VeteranJob: Please select a valid job field Organization: Title: Senior Accountant - Days Location: NC-Rutherfordton Requisition ID: 7462-9011