City/State
Virginia Beach, VAWork Shift
First (Days)Overview:
If you’re an accounting professional who wants your work to truly matter, this is the role for you. As an Accounting Supervisor in our healthcare organization, you’ll go beyond the numbers—supporting the financial foundation that enables high-quality patient care and community impact.
You’ll lead a dedicated team, partner with thoughtful finance leaders, and navigate the unique and rewarding complexity of healthcare finance. We offer meaningful work, visible impact, and opportunities to grow your leadership skills in an environment that values collaboration, integrity, and continuous improvement.
The Accounting Supervisor oversees day-to-day accounting operations within the healthcare system, ensuring accurate financial reporting, compliance with regulatory requirements, and adherence to internal controls. This role provides direct supervision to accounting staff, supports month-end close activities, and partners with finance leadership to maintain efficient, high-quality accounting processes across clinical and non-clinical entities.
Essential Responsibilities
Supervise daily accounting operations, including general ledger, journal entries, account reconciliations, and month-end close activities
Review and approve journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting documentation to ensure accuracy and compliance
Ensure adherence to GAAP, healthcare accounting standards, and organizational policies
Support preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and reports
Assist with annual audits, cost reports, and regulatory filings; serve as a key contact for auditors
Monitor internal controls and recommend process improvements to enhance efficiency and reduce risk
Provide guidance, coaching, and performance management for assigned accounting staff
Coordinate workload distribution and prioritize deadlines to meet reporting requirements
Collaborate with finance, revenue cycle, supply chain, payroll, and operational leaders to resolve accounting issues
Support system initiatives such as new entity onboarding, system conversions, or process standardization
Education
Bachelor’s degree (Required)
Certification/Licensure
Certified Professional Accountant (CPA) (Preferred but not required)
Experience
1 year of supervisory experience (Required)
5 years of related experience (Required)
Experience with client server based financial systems (Preferred)
Healthcare and/or public accounting experience (Preferred)
•Legal Resources Plan
•Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.
For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:
Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- 1 year of supervisory experience
- 5 years of related accounting experience
- Experience with client server based financial systems
- Knowledge of GAAP and healthcare accounting standards
- Experience with month-end close, general ledger, journal entries, and reconciliations
- Experience with audits, cost reports, and regulatory filings
- Experience supervising, coaching, and performing performance management for accounting staff
Sentara Healthcare Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sentara Healthcare and has not been reviewed or approved by Sentara Healthcare.
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Parental & Family Support — Four weeks of paid parental leave at full base pay and two weeks of job‑protected family caregiver leave support major life and care needs. Emergency back‑up care and reimbursements for infertility, adoption, and surrogacy further bolster family support.
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Retirement Support — A 401(A) plan alongside 403(B)/401(K) employer matching is designed to strengthen long‑term financial security. Company‑paid life insurance with buy‑up options adds additional protection for families.
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Flexible Benefits — Choice of medical plan designs and dental/vision options enables tailoring coverage to individual needs. An annual election between tuition assistance and student‑loan repayment offers flexibility to align with financial or education priorities.
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What We Do
Sentara Healthcare celebrates a 130-year history of innovation, compassion and community benefit. Based in Norfolk, VA, Sentara is a diverse not-for-profit family of 12 hospitals, an array of integrated services and a team of nearly 30,000 strong on a mission to improve health every day. This mandate is pursued through a disciplined strategy to achieve Top 10% performance in key measures through shared best practices, transformation of primary care through clinical integration and strategic growth that adds value to the communities we serve in Virginia and North Carolina.
