Accountant
SUNY Upstate Medical University
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The Accountant supports financial operations through general accounting, reconciliations, cash reporting, and financial recordkeeping. The role maintains accounting records, reviews cash activity, and helps identify issues and propose solutions. Hospital or healthcare accounting experience is helpful but not required.
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Job Summary:
The Accountant supports accurate and timely financial operations through general accounting, reconciliation, cash reporting, and financial recordkeeping activities. This position works across a variety of accounting functions and requires knowledge of accounting standards, policies, and procedures, along with the ability to identify issues and propose solutions. Strong organizational and interpersonal communication skills and familiarity with spreadsheet applications such as Microsoft Excel are important for success in this role. Hospital or healthcare accounting experience is helpful but not required.
What You’ll Do
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Maintain the accounts receivable interface.
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Prepare and post monthly and year-end journal entries.
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Maintain supporting schedules and workpapers and reconcile assigned accounts to the general ledger.
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Review daily and monthly cash activity and prepare weekly cash reports.
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Maintain record retention documentation and file for unclaimed funds.
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Perform physical inventory at various locations twice annually.
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Complete ad hoc accounting projects and requests as needed.
How You’ll Make an Impact
Through accurate reconciliations, financial reporting, cash review, and supporting documentation, you will help maintain reliable accounting records and effective financial operations. Your ability to recognize issues and propose solutions will also support accurate and efficient accounting processes.
Minimum Qualifications:
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Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting.
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Two (2) years of accounting experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Master’s Degree.
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CPA or certification in a healthcare-related organization.
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Two (2) years of accounting experience in a healthcare-related organization.
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Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables.
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Experience with database management applications such as Access or SQL.
Work Days:
Monday-Friday Days
Message to Applicants:
Recruitment Office: Human Resources
How this job compares
Set against the 4,856 open Accounting jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- New York median$90–128K/yr273 salary ranges
- New York median$21–29/hr64 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 474 open Accounting jobs in New York and 4,856 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Accounting postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,562 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 2,407 of the 4,856 open Accounting jobs (50%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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