Responsibilities
- Ensure daily departmental and organizational accounting operations run smoothly, conduct regular staff meetings, prioritize tasks and workloads, maintain, and communicate deadlines.
- Address escalations and proactively mitigate or resolve service disruptions in a timely manner.
- Ensure appropriate segregation of duties and ongoing assessment of internal controls.
- Oversee contract billing and collections for all programs, including developing billing processes, implementing new rate structures, and tracking funding sources.
- Oversee Medicaid billing and collections for all programs; assists with credentialing and authorization of services as needed.
- Oversee full cycle accounts payable process for all programs.
- Primary lead for monthly/yearly close process; coordinate and review complex journal entries; general ledger review; balance sheet reconciliations; assist with the timely and accurate preparation of monthly financials.
- Accounting information system management, maintain and implement automated systems and provide custom reporting for vendors, billing, financial transactions, assets, and travel/expense management.
- Asset management, maintain accurate financial records for all assets, reconcile inventory records with fixed asset general ledger.
- Assist with audit preparation and coordination as needed.
- Serve as the departmental help desk administrator and monitor for escalations and SLA breaches in a timely manner.
- Variance and trend analysis, and active participation in the process to review financial information and respond to questions from financial statement users.
- Knowledge and versatility in manipulating large volumes of data from disparate software applications and systems to inform financial modeling assumptions.
- Maintain and promote a culture of quality through goal setting, root cause analysis, responsive and timely support, review of data trends, clearly defined expectations, and staff recognition.
- Assist with cash and financial projections as needed.
- Conduct time studies in compliance with State, Federal, or other contract guidelines.
- Promote diversity, conduct staff training, and new hire orientations related to accounting policies, procedures, and forms as requested.
- Create and prepare financial and ad-hoc reports/schedules as requested.
- Manage special projects as assigned.
- Promote a culture of quality by identifying and communicating opportunities to improve financial outcomes and standardize financial processes.
- Perform all duties within contract, state and federal regulations, company policy, and regulatory agency standards.
- May be required to drive vehicles, be insurable with our auto insurance provider, and complete company vehicle training.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required with at least five (5) years of financial reporting or accounting experience. Master’s degree and a combination of progressive supervisory experience in accounting, business, and non-profit fields is preferred. In-depth understanding of purchasing and general ledger software applications, data analysis, and Excel is required.
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