Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?
Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.
Tempus is looking for an ambitious accountant to support growing operations in Chicago. This position will play a key role in the day-to-day accounting functions and month-end close process.
Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities:
- Managing compliance & external filings related to federal & state open payments transparency reporting for covered recipients & sunshine act for physician payments, secretary of state annual filings, city and business license renewals, property tax returns, Chicago cloud, use & sales tax, county filings, regulatory international filings & any other non-income tax filings (e.g., gross receipts taxes etc.)
- Preparing internal reporting related to HCP (health care professional) audits & reviews.
- Assisting accounting leadership team with the income federal and state tax return work paper preparation & PBCs.
- Assisting with review of expense reports to internal meal, gift, and entertainment policy
- Collaborating and coordinating with internal partners (legal) and with external tax consultants, registered agents, and medpro vendor.
- Assisting accounting team with month end close as time permits.
- Performing research as necessary or following up on correspondence with the tax agencies
- Projects include management & efficiency of Medpro database, rollout of multi-book in NetSuite (ERP) to managing of regulatory filings. Also, management of tax matter filings in our task tracking tool (Floqast projects).
Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in a similar compliance or tax role
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite; Advanced MS Excel skills (Logical Formulas, Lookups, Pivot Tables; experience with Visual Basic and/or SQL a plus but not required)
- Exceptional customer service skills; cooperative; strong team‐player
- An eye for the details and the ability to deliver accurate output in a timely manner.
- Strong organizational skills and comfort with managing multiple work streams.
- High level of self‐motivation with the ability to manage priorities, troubleshoot issues as they arise, and work independently.
- Poised and works well under pressure and in a fast-paced changing environment.
- Public accounting experience preferred.
- A champion for data accuracy and quality for the accounting team.
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The expected salary range below is applicable if the role is performed from [Illinois] and may vary for other locations. Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits, depending on the position.
Illinois Pay Range
$80,000—$100,000 USD
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Additionally, for remote roles open to individuals in unincorporated Los Angeles – including remote roles- Tempus reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: engaging positively with customers and other employees; accessing confidential information, including intellectual property, trade secrets, and protected health information; and appropriately handling such information in accordance with legal and ethical standards. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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Tempus is a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare. With one of the world’s largest libraries of clinical and molecular data, and an operating system to make that data accessible and useful, Tempus enables physicians to make near real-time, data-driven decisions to deliver personalized patient care and in parallel facilitates discovery, development and delivery of optimal therapeutics.
The goal is for each patient to benefit from the treatment of others who came before by providing physicians with tools that learn as the company gathers more data. For more information, visit tempus.com.
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