Prominence Advisors

Staff Accountant

Prominence Advisors

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Chicago • Illinois • United States

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About the role

  • Prominence is seeking a detail-oriented and highly motivated Accountant to join our growing Finance/Accounting team. This role will independently own and/or support key accounting functions including Payroll, Accounts Payable, Cash Management/Treasury, Cost Accounting, and Balance Sheet Accounting. The ideal candidate will bring a strong sense of accountability, an analytical mindset, and a passion for detail that ensures accuracy across financial operations.
  • - Support payroll processing, ensuring timely and accurate payroll runs and related journal entries.
  • - Manage accounts payable and billing functions, including invoice processing and vendor payments.
  • - Perform credit card and bank account categorization, ensuring proper classification of transactions.
  • - Lead the bank reconciliation process, identifying and resolving discrepancies in a timely manner.
  • - Execute general accounting responsibilities including balance sheet and accrual journal entries as part of the month-end close cycle.
  • - Contribute to system migration projects, supporting data integrity and process continuity during transitions.
  • - Collaborate with internal stakeholders to support audits, ad-hoc analysis, and continuous process improvement.

Requirements

  • **Education, Training and Experience **
  • - 3–5 years of accounting experience
  • - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field preferred.
  • - Solid understanding of GAAP and core financial concepts.
  • - Experience with SAGE Intacct is a plus
  • **Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities **
  • - **Professional**: Demonstrates a high degree of professionalism by treating others with respect, keeping commitments, building trust within the team, working with integrity, and upholding organizational values ("Do Great Work and Move Mountains”).
  • - **Organized**: Capable of managing multi-faceted work streams efficiently, ensuring smooth project flow.
  • - **Self-Motivated**: Adept at managing personal schedules, meeting deadlines, and monitoring work quality independently.
  • - **Highly Adaptable**: Quickly acclimates to new project assignments and diverse work environments.
  • - **Creative**: Approaches problems with a solution-oriented mindset, working collaboratively to find novel solutions.
  • - **Communication**: Effectively conveys clear and concise messages that resonate with the intended audience, both in written and verbal forms.
  • - **Proactive**: Anticipates potential issues, addresses concerns before they escalate, and effectively raises them when necessary.
  • - **Team-Oriented**: Passionate about mentoring and guiding others, thrives in a team-based environment. **
Benefits
  • Prominence is dedicated to hiring the best and brightest minds in healthcare and maintaining a culture that rewards our employees for following their passion. We’ve won Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work Award and have been voted to Chicago’s 101 Best and Brightest companies list three years running. Our most recent designation is being named in the top 10 by Consulting magazine as one of the Best Small Firm to Work For.
  • Prominence is dedicated to hiring the best and brightest minds in healthcare and maintaining a culture that rewards our employees for following their passion. We are excited to offer the following benefits for this position:
  • - Competitive Salaried and Hybrid Compensation Plans
  • - Health Care Plan (Medical, HSAs, Dental & Vision)
  • - Retirement Plan (401k)
  • - Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
  • - Dependent & Health Savings Accounts
  • - Short Term & Long Term Disability
  • - Paid Time Off (Vacation/Sick & Public Holidays)
  • - Training & Development Fund
  • - Work From Home
  • - Charitable Giving to Causes You Believe In
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Hard Skills & Tools
Payroll processingAccounts PayableCash ManagementCost AccountingBalance Sheet AccountingBank reconciliationGAAPAccrual journal entriesInvoice processingVendor payments
Soft Skills
Detail-orientedAnalytical mindsetAccountabilityProfessionalismOrganizedSelf-motivatedHighly adaptableCreative problem-solvingEffective communicationProactive