Staff Accountant II, Site Liaison

Your experience matters

At Lifepoint Health, we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality, scalability, and significant impact across our hospitals and communities. As a member of the Lifepoint Business Services (LBS) team, you’ll support those that are in our facilities who are interfacing and providing care to our patients and community members to positively impact our mission of making communities healthier ®.

More about our team

The LBS Finance Site Liaison team serves as a key accounting partner to Lifepoint facilities, helping ensure accurate financial reporting and a consistent, well-controlled close process. This role will support a growing portfolio of nine inpatient rehabilitation facilities and work closely with facility leadership and LBS Finance partners in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

How you’ll contribute

A Staff Accountant II, Site Liaison who excels in this role:

• Serves as the primary accounting liaison for a portfolio of approximately nine inpatient rehabilitation facilities, providing ongoing financial and accounting support to facility leadership.

• Manages the end-to-end general ledger close process for assigned facilities, including completion of close checklists, journal entries, account reconciliations, post-close review, and required certifications.

• Prepares and reviews journal entries and supporting documentation to ensure transactions are complete, accurate, appropriately supported, and recorded in accordance with established accounting policies.

• Performs detailed P&L and balance sheet analysis, identifies unusual trends or variances, and researches and resolves accounting discrepancies.

• Maintains the integrity of facility balance sheets through timely reconciliations, post-close analysis, and periodic balance sheet reviews.

• Partners directly with hospital and operational leadership to provide financial analysis, explain monthly results and variances, and support management and operational reviews.

• Collaborates with LBS Technical Accounting and other Finance teams to research and resolve complex or facility-specific accounting matters.

• Supports annual budgeting and forecasting activities and assists facility leadership with understanding financial trends and performance.

• Manages facility-specific accounting and reporting activities, which may include joint venture accounting, regulatory reporting, tax-related filings, escheatment submissions, licensure renewals, and other required financial reporting.

• Ensures appropriate internal controls are maintained to safeguard facility assets and support accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting.

• Identifies opportunities to improve and standardize accounting processes across supported facilities.

• Effectively manages competing priorities and deadlines across multiple facilities, particularly during month-end and year-end close.

• Maintains regular and reliable attendance and performs other duties as assigned.

 

What we’re looking for

Applicants should have a bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. Additional qualifications include:

• 3+ years of progressive accounting experience, with demonstrated responsibility for the financials of multiple facilities, entities, or business units.

• Strong general ledger accounting experience, including journal entries, account reconciliations, month-end close, and financial statement analysis.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze P&L and balance sheet activity, research variances, and clearly communicate financial results.

• Experience successfully managing multiple priorities, deadlines, and financial close requirements simultaneously.

• Healthcare, hospital, inpatient rehabilitation, or other multi-site accounting experience preferred.

• Strong working knowledge of accounting principles, internal controls, and financial reporting processes.

• Ability to work independently, take ownership of assigned facilities, and proactively identify and resolve accounting issues.

• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively with facility and operational leadership.

• Ability and willingness to work additional evening and weekend hours during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close periods as business needs require.

• CPA designation preferred, but not required.

Why join us 

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

Salary range: $57,805-$78,036 per year. 

EEOC Statement

Lifepoint Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Lifepoint Health is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.

Employment Sponsorship Statement

You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

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If you believe this job posting does not include accurate or complete pay information in accordance with the Washington State Equal Pay and Opportunities Act, please inform us immediately.  You can contact us at 833-271-4269 to report the issue.  For more information on your rights under Washington’s pay transparency laws, visit the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries website at: https://lni.wa.gov

About UsLifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country. About the TeamWe employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.