[Hiring] Senior Manager - Accounting @Stanford Health Care

Role Description

The Sr. Manager – Accounting is responsible for overseeing technically complex accounting areas including capital and fixed assets, lease accounting, and intercompany transactions, ensuring full compliance with GAAP and internal policy. This role provides hands-on technical leadership to staff across the full accounting cycle while driving process improvement initiatives that leverage analytics, automation, and emerging AI-enabled tools to increase accuracy and efficiency.

• Technical Accounting Leadership: Provide technical accounting leadership and oversight for complex areas such as capital and fixed assets, intercompany accounting, third-party revenue, and other emerging accounting matters.
• Month-End Close, Reporting, and Analysis: Review staff journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations for adherence to GAAP and internal policies.
• Internal Controls and Process Improvement: Develop, maintain, and evaluate accounting procedures and internal controls for supervised areas.
• Analytics, Automation, and Technology Enablement: Build and maintain reporting using analytics and business intelligence tools to support management reporting and close analytics.
• People Leadership and Team Development: Supervise personnel including work planning, performance evaluations, conflict resolution, interviewing, and hiring recommendations.
• Cross-Functional Partnership and Customer Support: Respond to accounting and reporting questions from operating departments and senior management in a courteous and timely manner.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance from an accredited college or university.
• At least six (6) years of progressively responsible and directly related accounting experience, including experience in one or more technical areas such as fixed assets, lease accounting, or intercompany; previous management or supervisory experience required.

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of GAAP applicable to complex technical areas such as fixed assets (ASC 360), lease accounting (ASC 842), revenue recognition (ASC 606), or intercompany transactions.
• Ability to review and prepare journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules for technically complex accounting areas.
• Ability to supervise, coach, mentor, train, and evaluate accounting staff.
• Ability to communicate complex accounting concepts clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
• Proficiency in analytics and business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated interest in and working familiarity with low-code or no-code automation tools.
• Curiosity and openness to exploring Company approved AI-enabled tools.
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and manage multiple workstreams.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across finance, operations, legal, and IT functions.
• Knowledge of accounting systems and ERP platforms; strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Healthcare-related accounting experience.
• Experience implementing or significantly improving an accounting process using automation, scripting, or BI tooling in a professional accounting environment.

Licenses and Certifications

• CPA - Certified Public Accountant

Benefits

• SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience.
• Equal Opportunity Employer.