Accounts Receivable Associate

Overview

This role provides accounts receivable support and analysis, and serves as a liaison with field and corporate finance personnel, and in some cases with external auditors. Responsibilities include preparing value-added financial analysis and making recommendations related to revenue, accounts receivable, and reserves for doubtful accounts.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage new and ongoing Avatar setups
• Liaise with operations and other functions on accounts receivable and general ledger reconciliation issues
• Review and analyze weekly collection activity; set collection priorities for the upcoming week
• Review and analyze monthly accounts receivable balances; recommend bad debt reserves
• Prepare data and analysis to support the valuation of accounts receivable and the adequacy of reserves
• Prepare and analyze monthly non-authorized reports; make recommendations and obtain authorizations
• Prepare and analyze monthly sales adjustment reports
• Review client setup in the billing system to ensure accuracy
• Review and analyze revenue reports
• Support monthly close activities and quarter/year-end audits of accounts receivable (may be involved, especially in field operating divisions)
• Serve as an advisor on billing software and billing system
• Maintain an effective control environment under SOx 404 for the accounting operations overseen, including key and non-key controls
• Timely update and modify control design when necessary and oversee control remediation activities if exceptions are encountered during testing
• Perform other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Requirements

• High School Diploma
• Experience in healthcare or accounts receivable; understanding of accounts receivable and general ledger in accordance with GAAP (generally equivalent to 0–2 years’ experience)
• Ability to work effectively with people at diverse levels throughout the organization
• Knowledge of Excel, Oracle, Avatar; some states may have state-specific software billing requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance or other related field
• Accounts Receivable experience preferred
• Experience with Avatar, Excel, cash moves, liability transfers, rate changes, and adjustments

Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations

• N/A

Physical Requirements

• Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.
• Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

ADA Statement

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform essential job functions either unaided or with assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined on a case-by-case basis via the interactive process.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

The employer does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.