Vice President of Accounting

• Lead all aspects of the accounting function, including monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes.
• Lead Organization through a Cah to Accrual conversion in the first 6 -12 months
• Serve as the organization’s primary technical accounting resource and provide guidance to the CFO and executive leadership team.
• Quickly assess the accounting department, processes, controls, and talent while developing a clear plan for improvement.
• Strengthen accounting policies, internal controls, reporting practices, and audit readiness.
• Evaluate the existing organizational structure and make appropriate staffing and responsibility changes.
• Recruit and develop additional accounting talent, potentially including an Assistant Controller or Senior Accountant.
• Oversee accounting across a complex legal entity structure that includes a holding company, tax blocker, management services organization, and multiple physician-owned professional entities.
• Ensure the accuracy and compliance of intercompany allocations, shared-services arrangements, administrative service agreements, and revenue cycle charge outs.
• Provide oversight for entities whose books are maintained by the organization but may not be consolidated into its financial statements.
• Partner closely with treasury, revenue cycle, operations, legal, and executive leadership.
• Support external audits and work with outside advisors to address accounting or process deficiencies.
• Create scalable accounting infrastructure capable of supporting additional physician practices and future organizational growth.
• Develop, coach, and retain a strong accounting team while creating accountability and clarity across the department.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field required.
• CPA desired but not required
• Significant technical accounting experience, ideally within a healthcare services, physician practice management, or multisite healthcare organization.
• Experience with corporate practice of medicine structures, management services organizations, or physician-owned professional entities strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex legal entity structures, intercompany transactions, shared-service allocations, and consolidations.
• Strong command of generally accepted accounting principles, internal controls, financial reporting, and external audit processes.
• Previous leadership experience as a Corporate Controller, Controller, Chief Accounting Officer, or senior accounting executive.
• Experience assessing and improving an accounting function during a period of transition, rapid growth, or operational complexity.
• Ability to make sound personnel and organizational decisions while building a high-performing team.
• Experience with NetSuite preferred.
• Healthcare services or private equity-backed company experience is highly desirable.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in leading accounting functions, including financial reporting, internal controls, and compliance within complex legal entity structures. Proven ability to develop and mentor high-performing accounting teams while driving improvements in processes and policies.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Technical Accounting Experience
• Leadership Experience as Corporate Controller
• Strong Command of GAAP
• Experience with NetSuite
• Healthcare Services Industry Knowledge

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Financial Reporting
• Internal Controls
• Consolidations
• Intercompany Transactions
• Audit Readiness
• Accounting Policies
• Cah to Accrual Conversion
• Shared-Service Allocations
• Organizational Assessment
• Process Improvement

Soft Skills

• Team Development
• Decision-Making
• Accountability
• Communication
• Leadership

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• CPA (Desired)

Industry Keywords

• Healthcare Services
• Physician Practice Management
• Multisite Healthcare Organization
• Corporate Practice of Medicine
• Management Services Organizations
• Physician-Owned Professional Entities
• Private Equity-Backed Company

Tools & Technologies

• NetSuite