SUMMARY:

The Senior Accounting Clerk position is responsible for assisting the Chief Financial Officer with accounting functions including reporting of the clinic's financial operations.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Demonstrate and hold true to GBO's values: 
  • Pursue Empathetic, Caring Relationships: We will care about our patients and about each other
  • Embrace the Difficult: We courageously seek challenges and change
  • Take Responsibility: We take ownership for our actions, provide solutions to problems and demand the same for each other
  • Be Better: We constantly seek opportunities to learn and improve who we are and what we do

• Prepares monthly general and standard journal entries, financial statements and comparative

           reports, account reconciliations, and cost reports.

• Assists independent auditors with interim and year-end audits and verifies accuracy of reports.
• Prepares federal, state and other governmental reports such as annual tax returns, ERISA

Reports.

• Keeps informed of all government regulations and procedures affecting hospital finance and accounting procedures.
• Maintains and reviews cost center and appropriation accounts, including trial balances, to verify accuracy with coding, classifying and posting.
• Prepares reports related to recommended changes in data collection procedures.
• Prepares reports of budget expenditures, revenues and account or fund balances.
• Assists clerical employees with problems related to tracking and inputting data into proper accounting format.
• Assists with payroll activities and resolves payroll problems.
• Assists with the selection, training and performance evaluation of assigned staff.
• Maintains strictest confidentiality.
• KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: 

• Knowledge of accounting theory, principles and practices to identify and describe accounting systems and subsystems.
• Knowledge of budgeting and of cost accounting principles.
• Knowledge of research techniques to analyze data and make recommendations.
• Knowledge of computer information systems and spreadsheets to present financial information.
• Ability to analyze financial reports.
• Ability to prepare statistical and narrative accounting reports.
• Ability to perform mathematical computations accurately and quickly.
• Ability to identify and compute ratios and percentages.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability to communicate clearly.
• EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:  

• Associates degree in accounting or equivalent combination of education and experience.;

• Accounting experience in a health care organization preferred;

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration or related field preferred.

PHYSICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Occasionally lift up 10 lbs. Rarely push/pull up to 25 pounds.
• Regularly required to stand; sit; climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; twist; bend; walk; use hand to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands, arms.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and to adjust focus.
• Sit for prolonged periods of time.

• Work is generally performed in an office setting; desk/cubicle with chair, computer and phone
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.
• This job operates in a health care setting where contact with patients who may have a contagious illness could occur.