Compliance Senior Associate

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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