Reference #: 170547
Job Details
Job Location
Corporate Headquarters - Plymouth Meeting, PA
Remote Type: Fully Remote
Position Type: Full Time
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree Required
Travel Percentage: 0%
Job Shift: Day
Job Category: Accounting
Description
WHY CHOOSE ECRI?
ECRI is an inspiring place to work. We share a common mission to help healthcare organizations make smart, compassionate, and ethical decisions for patients. Consider these additional benefits of joining the ECRI team:
Industry leadership: We have a long history and proven reputation in patient safety and medical technology research.
On-the-job-learning: You will have the opportunity to work with specialists across medical science, patient care, healthcare management, and technology.
Comprehensive healthcare benefits: We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability coverage.
Retirement Savings: Our employees can participate in an employer-matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan.
Additional benefits: ECRI offers additional benefits to our employees, including paid time off and holiday pay, paid leave for parents, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, access to LinkedIn Learning, and other voluntary benefit programs (e.g. accident insurance, identify theft insurance, flexible spending accounts).
Volunteer Program: ECRI Cares, our employee volunteer program, provides a framework for us to work together and make a difference in the lives of others. All employees are provided 16 hours annually of paid time to volunteer at preapproved ECRI Cares charities during normal business hours.
Fully Remote: ECRI is a fully remote organization.
ABOUT ECRI
At ECRI, our passion for safe, effective, and efficient care is ingrained into the fabric of who we are and why we are here. For more than 50 years, the people of ECRI have been unyielding in their work to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. Now, with the acquisition of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), we have created one of the largest healthcare quality and safety entities in the world.
As a non-profit, independent organization, we utilize an unbiased, evidence-based approach to develop guidance, and maintain our principles of integrity and transparent work. Our ethical standards have led us to adopt the industry's strictest conflict-of-interest policies, and they are why tens of thousands of healthcare leaders worldwide rely on ECRI to guide their clinical, operational, and strategic decisions across all sites of care.
The Most Trusted Voice in Healthcare
ECRI is proud to serve the healthcare industry, from providers and insurers to government agencies, and medical associations. Our areas of focus include:
Patient Safety: empowering leaders to eliminate patient harm through the dissemination of best practices, guidance, benchmarking, and recommendations.
Evidence-Based Medicine: providing clinical evidence to inform and support decisions on the effectiveness of medical technologies, procedures, genetic tests, and clinical practice guidelines.
Technology Decision Support: arming hospital systems with unbiased insights, so they can optimize their supply chain.
ECRI is the only organization worldwide to conduct independent medical device evaluations, with labs located in North America and Asia Pacific. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a federally certified Patient Safety Organization by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
At ECRI, our passion for the truth drives us to go further and dig deeper in our pursuit to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally.
The success of our organization relies on the kind of creative thinking that can only result from a diverse team of individuals. ECRI is proud to be an employer of choice with an inclusive environment for all employees. As part of this goal and in compliance with various laws and regulations, ECRI provides reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees.
It's what makes ECRI unique, and why we are the most trusted voice in healthcare.
POSITION SUMMARY
This role will report to the Assistant Controller and provide leadership and hands on support for the day-to-day financial operations of a newly acquired entity, plus oversight and responsibility for all International financial reporting. It is critical to have the ability to manage and communicate fast paced changes at all levels to ensure continued alignment with business objectives, as well as the ability to drive continuous improvement. Ideal candidate would have a track record of success as an accounting manager in a growth-oriented, complex software and service organization. Experience in a metrics-driven culture, driving results through well executed strategies.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
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:
Manage the month-end account reconciliations and closing process, including inter-company transactions, eliminations, and consolidation of subsidiaries/foreign offices.
Record and monitor all financial transactions.
Ensure that accounting policies, procedures, and processes are established and followed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and good accounting practices.
Respond to internal requests for financial data and budget inquiries.
Responsible for ensuring all tax filings are made accurately and in a timely manner
Assist with internal and external financial reporting and variance analysis.
Assist with annual audits
Monitor spending associated with all projects/grants, understand all significant variances
Assist in the development of policies and procedures, internal controls, and new initiatives within the Institute.
Identify strategic opportunities to improve processes within the department and throughout the organization.
Establish effective Cash Management practices and backup to monitor and control A/R Cash Receipts and A/P Cash Disbursements; and prepare cash forecasts.
Perform backup for accounting functions, such as Concur (T&E management system) processing
Additional Responsibilities:
Other duties, as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
Experience:
At least 5 years full time progressively responsible accounting experience is required, including the management of a financial services or business office. Not for Profit experience not required.
Knowledge in Oracle NetSuite required.
Experience in financial audit coordination.
Professional experience to include technical expertise in accounting, financial statement preparation, and cash management.
The ability to develop, refine, and maintain sound financial and internal control systems.
Ability to work collaboratively with institute constituencies and to effectively lead support staff.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with all levels of the organization are require
