Responsibilities: Guides financial decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing policies and procedures. Protects assets by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal controls. Monitors and confirms financial condition by conducting audits; providing information to external auditors. Provides financial information to Executive Management by collecting, analyzing, verifying, and reporting accounting data; prepares reports; manages staff; ensures compliance with GAP, organizational policies, and external audits.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Accountant/Analyst Job Duties:
- Coordinating budgeting, procurement, and financial planning
- Recommends financial actions to the executive team by analyzing accounting options.
- Summarizes current financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports.
- Perform monthly, quarterly and annual accounting activities including reconciliations of bank and credit card accounts, coordination and completion of annual audits, and reviewing financial reports/support as necessary
- Prepares quarterly and annual reports and manages quarterly and annual budgets and forecasts.
- Substantiates financial transactions by auditing documents. Maintains financial security by following internal controls. Secures financial information by completing data base backups.
- Answers accounting procedure questions by researching and interpreting accounting policy and regulations.
- Participates in the development and support of the company’s strategic plans
- Prepares analysis of assigned income and expense accounts as assigned by the CFO, to identify positive and negative trends and find opportunities for cost savings and revenue generation.
- Supervises the Accounting Manager and is responsible for ensuring work is completed accurately and in a timely manner.
- Develops and coordinates new policies and procedures regarding purchasing processes.
- Conducts analysis of program policies and procedures, develops plans, formulates guidelines, implements new developments and procedures, and provides policy interpretation for finance to purchasing customers within corporate guidelines.
- Support the CFO with special projects and workflow processes improvements.
- Monitors approval of accounts to maintain an appropriate degree of control over vendor relationships.
- Participates in any development requirements and is involved in the automation/test of purchasing and logistics software.
- Provides oversight for USAC program, including the filing of annual applications and monthly invoicing.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications Requirements: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Some corporate purchasing experience preferred.
Education and/or experience: Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, or related field. Experience in accounting. Knowledge of CPT and ICD10 codes and medical or dental office experience required. Supervisory experience preferred. Experience in financial project management, financial data analysis, and reporting. Knowledge of payroll, accounts payable, and accounts receivable functions. 5 years of professional experience in accounting preferred. Experience with accounting in a healthcare organization preferred.
Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret financial reports. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, vendors, and regulatory agencies. Ability to effectively present information to top management. High level of communication proficiency.
Mathematical Skills: Ability to work with accounting concepts such as income and expense statements, budgets, and controls on cash such as into and out of COMC for deposit to the bank. Understanding of financial data analysis and reporting. Financial management.
Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Other Skills and Abilities: Outgoing personality with strong phone etiquette skills, outstanding customer service skills. Confidentiality of patient information is mandatory. Ability to operate office equipment and computer skills required. Accounting, Corporate Finance, Reporting Skills, Attention to Detail, Deadline-Oriented, Reporting Research Results, SFAS Rules, Organization, Confidentiality, Time Management, Data Entry Management. Problem solving. Decision making.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. This includes moderate physical effort consisting of occasionally lifting or moving over 35 pounds of weight.
Travel Requirement: To fulfill the responsibility of the position travel to all COMC locations may be required. Employee must have valid Missouri driver’s license and availability of a motor vehicle.
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: In person
