Want More Than Just an Accounting Job?

You can find plenty of accounting roles where the expectation is simple: sit down, close the books, clear your queue, and do it again next month.

This is not that!

Cardinal Senior Living is growing, acquiring communities, and building the infrastructure needed to support a much larger organization. That growth creates a unique opportunity for an early-career accountant who wants more than a narrow lane.

As our next Regional Accountant , you will learn the technical side of accounting while also seeing how the numbers connect to the real business.

You will support multiple communities. You will work with operational leaders. You will see how accounting impacts decisions in the field. And as you prove yourself, the expectation is that you take on more responsibility, more autonomy, and a bigger role in helping Cardinal scale.

If you are looking for a place to learn fast, contribute early, and grow with the company, keep reading .

What Makes This Role Different?

You will absolutely spend time in the details. Accuracy matters here.

But we are not looking for someone who wants to disappear behind a spreadsheet all day.

Our Accounting team is a support function to the people running our communities, which means this role sits at the nexus of accounting and operations . You will learn how the business works while becoming a trusted resource for the leaders who depend on accurate financial information.

Your work will include:

General ledger accounting and journal entries
Bank, cash, balance sheet, and fixed-asset reconciliations
Month-end and year-end close support
Financial reporting and variance research
Documentation, controls, and audit support
Working with community and corporate partners to resolve missing or inconsistent information
Supporting the accounting continuity and capacity required as Cardinal grows and acquires new communities

The internal role standard emphasizes accuracy, documentation discipline, process adherence, deadline reliability, risk recognition, and progressively greater independence.

We Want You to Grow Into the Role

By 90 days , you should be demonstrating a solid grasp of foundational GAAP and applying basic accounting principles accurately in your assigned work. You will also be learning Cardinal's entities, processes, controls, and expectations.

By 6 months , you should have mastered the systems and recurring workflows that drive your role. You will understand how your work fits into the close process, how Accounting supports operations, and how to research and resolve routine issues with confidence.

By 12 months , the goal is approximately 90% autonomy . You own your work. You manage your deadlines. You solve routine problems without being chased. You recognize when something looks wrong and know when to fix it yourself versus when to escalate.

That progression is directly aligned with the role's expectation of rapid learning, fewer repeated errors, decreasing supervision, and increasing accountability.

Who Will Love This Job?

The right person is probably someone who likes the details and likes people.

You might be a great fit if:

You are driven and want your career to move
You take feedback seriously and apply it quickly
You enjoy solving problems instead of passing them along
You care about accuracy, but you also want to understand the business behind the numbers
You like being part of a team and actually enjoy the social side of coming to work
You follow through when you say you will do something
You want your level of responsibility to grow with your performance
You are excited by the idea of helping a growing company build something better

We can teach systems. We can teach processes. We can teach how Cardinal does accounting.

We cannot teach drive, curiosity, accountability, or the desire to get better.

What You Bring

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field , plus a foundational understanding of debits and credits, journal entries, general ledger accounting, reconciliations, accrual concepts, and basic financial statements.
Comfort in using Microsoft Excel, including formulas, formatting, sorting, and filtering.
Sage Intacct experience is helpful, but it is not required.

This is intentionally an early-career opportunity. You do not need years of accounting experience to be successful here.

What matters more is whether you have the foundation, work ethic, and learning agility to become excellent at the job.

Why Cardinal Senior Living?

Our mission is simple:

We provide dignity, safety and care to our elderly residents.

The Accounting team supports that mission by helping Cardinal operate stronger communities, make better decisions, manage resources responsibly, and successfully grow the organization.

And Cardinal is growing.

That means this is not just an opportunity to learn accounting. It is an opportunity to learn how a growing multi-site business operates, work alongside both Finance and Operations, and build a career inside an organization that will need more capable people as it gets bigger.

What You Get

$50,000 to $70,000 annual salary
Bonus opportunities
Unlimited PTO
Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
Real exposure to both Accounting and Operations
A defined path toward increased autonomy and responsibility
The opportunity to grow alongside an expanding company
Less than 5% travel

This role is primarily on-site in our Grand Rapids office . That is intentional. Especially early in your career, we believe there is value in sitting next to the team, learning in real time, building relationships, and becoming part of how the group works.

If This Sounds Like You...

If you want a job where you can learn quickly, work with people you enjoy, understand the business behind the numbers, and earn more responsibility as you perform, we want to meet you.

Apply today to join Cardinal Senior Living as our next Regional Accountant.

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