The General Accounting Department is seeking a Senior Accounting Manager for Inter-entity Shared Services who will oversee financial transactions relating to intercompany transactions between the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Divisions and the Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS) Affiliates. The Senior Accounting manager interacts with departmental representatives at all levels, as well as senior management, and manages a staff of three.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities:
Coordinate the Inter-Entity Agreement (IEA) signature process which includes responsibility of tracking and reporting the status of documents through the process and working closely with the JHU & JHHS legal department on each agreement. Distribute signed agreements to senior leadership and other parties involved and post final executed documents on OneDrive. Maintain policies and procedures for the IEA process.
Work with senior leadership on intercompany policies and procedures and provide guidance as needed across JHU and JHHS affiliates. Maintain up-to-date content on Shared Services website.
Lead and coordinate the monthly meetings of the Intercompany Solutions Committee which includes representatives from across the JHHS affiliates and School of Medicine (SOM). Help identify unresolved items that need to be accrued.
Participate in Department Chair Dowry meetings. Help with reviewing commitment letters to identify funding source of each commitment item. Assist with setting up master data in SAP. Reconcile, track and report JHHS support transferred monthly based on the actual expense in the SOM department's dowry Internal Orders (IO) and close when fully spent.
Maintain and process JHHS transfers for support of various JHU and SOM operations and vice-versa. Assist with year-end settlements to actual as needed.
Oversee the monthly review and approval of SOM Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) accruals entered by SOM departments into the Medvitals tool the 5th workday. Also help to communicate policies and procedures for the intercompany recording of transfers.
Participate in monthly financial statement meetings with SOM Business Office and JHU General Accounting. Analyze Affiliated Revenue postings and accruals relative to budget and prior year
Act as central approver for security access to various SAP CO roles and Master Data requests for new or revised Secondary Cost Elements.
Participate on committees with Hopkins parties and outside consultants. Recommend, document and implement procedures to improve the intercompany process of recording financial transactions on a more timely basis.
Supervise, manage, develop and mentor Inter-Entity staff.
Manage the review and approval of over 500 intercompany KB15N and journal transfers emailed to the shared Inter-Entity mailbox from across JHU and JHHS areas each month. Review requires applying a working knowledge of applicable laws and regulations, verifying documents for completeness and proper approvals
Oversee creating and processing of the Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) and Bayview Medical Center (BMC) Joint Administrative Agreements (JAA) documents to be used for recording monthly transfers of support in SAP. Coordinate changes with JHH and BMC Finance and assist with year-end settlements as needed.
Manage monthly reconciliation and clearing of inter-entity
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