Accounting Manager

Accounting Manager

Sonida Senior Living is one of the nation's leading operators of independent living, assisted living and memory care communities for senior adults. The Company operates 97 communities that are home to nearly 12,000 residents across 20 states providing comfortable, safe, affordable communities where residents can form friendships, enjoy new experiences and receive personalized care from dedicated team members who treat them family.

Job Description : The Accounting Manager owns the Company's Corporate Accounting processes, including ensuring the timely completion of month-end close, related balance sheet and cash reconciliations as well as the company's Treasury and Accounts Payable functions. The Accounting Manager applies US GAAP principles and reviews journal entries, account reconciliations, and monthly reporting packages; provides critical analysis of changes in account balances; assists in project implementations; supports quarterly reviews and the year-end audit; and supervises, trains and mentors the corporate accounting and treasury teams. The Accounting Manager also oversees the accounts payable and treasury teams and manages the banking relationships.

Responsibilities :

• Manages priorities and deadlines of accounting team to ensure delivery of timely and accurate monthly, quarterly and year end community financial statements in accordance with US GAAP company accounting policy
• Develops and implements critical financial policies, procedures, and internal controls (SOX) and plays a leading role in directing change initiatives and process improvement
• Ensures financial policy and process are created to ensure accuracy and compliance of key accruals and corporate allocations to individual property financial statements
• Ensures all corporate-related journal entries, account reconciliations, and monthly reporting packages are completed according to monthly close schedule and all close deadlines are achieved
• Ensures cash balances and banking activity is monitored and provided to internal teams as needed and oversees the Company's treasury function
• Performs general ledger account analysis, including documenting variance explanations, compared to prior periods and budgeted amounts
• Supervises, trains, and mentors corporate accountants, treasury and accounts payables personnel.
• Supports the audit process.
• Other projects or duties, as assigned

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