Accounting Analyst

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Job Summary
Responsible for auditing and approving lease-related expenses according to WAG procedures and policies. Ensures compliance with WAG policies and procedures and SOX-related compliance policies. Supports internal/external audits. Completes thorough and detailed audits and reviews of all lease related invoices and expenses to evaluate landlord compliance to applicable leases, the accuracy of financial information, and the effectiveness and efficiency of management controls. Responsible for special project analysis, landlord default resolution, and providing direction, guidance and training of Service Provider staff.

Job Responsibilities

  • Monitors timeliness of external sources providing required documents, information and payment. Notifies management of late items. Assists with monitoring accounts.
  • Research and correction of issues and exceptions as assigned. Analyzes moderately complex accounts, records, and reports. Investigates and resolves any accounting issues within area of responsibility.
  • Performs reconciliations for area supported and analyzes resulting variances. Proposes and prepares adjusting entries as necessary resulting from reconciliations.
  • Prepares reports in support of internal and external audits.
  • Audits compliance with contracts, negotiated terms, and applicable regulations.
  • Recommends process improvements. May assist in exploring modification and implementation in changes in systems and procedures.
  • Perform data mining activities and root cause analysis as assigned.
  • Contacts internal and external departments to obtain required information, documents, or payments.
  • Monitors and audits own and others work for accuracy and timeliness.

About Walgreens
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree OR High School Diploma/GED and at least 3 years of experience in an analytical role in accounting, finance, business management or auditing.
  • Knowledge of applicable regulations.
  • Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  • Experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
  • Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
  • Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).


Preferred Qualifications
  • Master’s Degree in Accountancy or MBA.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business.
  • Bachelor’s Degree and at least 2 years of experience in an analytical role in accounting, finance, business management or auditing OR High School Diploma/GED and at least 5 years of experience in an analytical role in accounting, finance, business management or auditing.
  • CPA designation.
  • Experience with project management (for example: planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).
  • Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
  • Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Access (for example: designing and creating simple queries, modifying data types, adding dates, working with required fields and/or creating labels).
  • Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Salary Range: $63100 - $101200 / Salaried
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