Senior Staff Accountant

This position is intended to start January 2026.

The pay range above represents the minimum and maximum rate for this position in California. Factors that may be used to determine where newly hired employees will be placed in the pay range include the employee specific skills and qualifications, relevant years of experience and comparison to other employees already in this role. Most often, a newly hired employee will be placed below the midpoint of the range. Salary range will vary for remote positions outside of California and future increases will be based on the pay band for the city and state you reside in.

Work Culture:

GCHP strives to create an inclusive, highly collaborative work culture where our people are empowered to grow and thrive.  This philosophy enables us to create the health plan of the future and do our best work – Together.

GCHP promotes a flexible work environment. Employees may work from a home location or in the GCHP office for all or part of their regular workweek (see disclaimer).

GCHP’s focuses on 5 Core Values in the workplace:

•    Integrity

•    Accountability

•    Collaboration

•    Trust 

•    Respect

Disclaimers:

•    Flexible work schedule is based on job duties, department, organization, or business need.

•    Gold Coast Health Plan will not sponsor applicants for work visas.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Staff Accountant will be responsible for contributing to a company-wide accounting function and maintaining a complete financial reporting service for a County Operated Health Plan. The Senior Staff Accountant will be responsible for assisting in the completion of the month-end and year end close; prepare journal entries; manage timely and accurate preparation of monthly analysis and analysis of all balance sheet accounts.

Work Schedule: Work protracted or irregular hours and evening meetings, or work unusual hours for meeting attendance or participation in specific projects or programs.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Job Function & Responsibilities

•    Assist in all phases of the closing and reporting functions, including preparation of journal entries, analyzing and reconciling general ledger accounts, and analyzing variances in income statement and balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis. 

•    Ensures compliance with corporate accounting policies and procedures.

•    Assist in the management of month-end close using Close management software (FloQast)

•    Maintains monthly close checklist and Month-over-Month Income statement and balance sheet trend analysis

•    Works closely with the Procurement area to ensure P.O.s get the correct business unit and GL Coding

•    Prepares monthly Administrative Expense Report, performs analysis and leads meetings with business unit owners to review Actuals to budget variances

•    Enterprise Project Portfolio analysis and reporting

•    Key figure in the preparation of the annual Administrative Expense budget.  

•    Provides guidance to business units on budget system, key dates and deliverables and guidance on how to input requests. 

•    Is responsible for gathering Finance inputs and projections to the Annual budget.

•    Premium and Supplemental Revenue tracking and analysis

•    Tracking and reconciliation of state risk corridors coordinating with operational teams

•    Development of subledger supporting schedules and documents where system subledgers do not exist.

•    Assist with researching Payroll issues and may at time manually make corrections in GL as required.

•    Applies principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports.

•    Research accounting rules and regulations and prepare accounting memorandums documenting company policy.

•    May coordinate implementation of accounting and accounting control procedures.

•    Aid in the development and documentation of internal controls.

•    Recommends improvements, adaptations or revisions in the accounting system and procedures.

•    Prepares audit schedules for annual, external audit.

•    Update and maintain desktop procedures and workflows related to accounting processes.

•    Serves as a liaison with other departments when partnering on business initiatives.

•    Staff Accountant performs all other duties as assigned by supervisor including assistance with special projects and ad hoc requests.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education & Experience:

•    High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED)

•    Ability to read, write, speak and understand English

•    Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

•    Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills.

•    Highly organized individual with a commitment to consistent attention to details, meeting deadlines and strong analytical skills.

•    Flexibility and adaptability to assume additional responsibilities and accommodate report requests from management.

•    Comfortable working independently, with experience working in a team environment

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

Preferred Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's Degree (four year college or technical school) Preferred, Field of Study: Accounting, Finance or related field

•    5-10 plus years of experience in accounting or financial statement preparation.

•    Experience working in a Managed Care Organization

Technology & Software Skills: Advanced computer skills in MS Office products. Adaptive Insights and FloQast Close Manager Software as well as knowledge of General Ledger, Purchase Order and Accounts Payable modules of ERP systems

Competency Statements

•    Financial Aptitude - Ability to understand and explain economic and accounting information, prepare and manage budgets, and make sound long-term investment decisions.

•    Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.

•    Ethical - Ability to demonstrate conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.

•    Communication, Written - Ability to communicate in writing clearly and concisely.

•    Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.

•    Project Management - Ability to organize and direct a project to completion.

•    Diversity Oriented - Ability to work effectively with people regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or job type.