Finance and Accounting Analyst 1

Overview

This role performs basic professional accounting and financial processes while providing analysis support through the maintenance of financial records and reports. Responsibilities include collecting and analyzing data for budget, financial, and expense performance comparisons for the CNE Cabinet, and supporting the Division of Care Management in maintaining compliance with departmental, organizational, and federal regulations related to patient assistance. The position also assists with departmental procurement activities, including contract compliance, invoice processing, and other forms of disbursement.

Responsibilities

Analytical Financial tasks

• Pull and analyze financial data to understand appropriate utilization of funds, flow of revenue, spending trends, and areas of opportunity to improve spending, with a particular focus on patient assistance.
• Analyze departmental budget-to-actual variances.
• Assist leadership in understanding and explaining variances over time or budget versus actual.

General Accounting

• Maintain spreadsheets of patient assistance funding and reconcile against GL for internal and external reporting purposes.
• Process journal entries to move charity funds spent in Care Management programs to Foundation funds.
• Validate contract invoicing and ensure recognition conforms to GASB for large dollar, multi-year agreements.
• Perform other miscellaneous accounting tasks as needed.

Financial Reporting

• Provide financial reporting for patient assistance for the Care Management Division to support appropriate utilization of funds and tracking spending over time.
• Create reports as needed.

Budgeting/Planning

• Maintain records of patient assistance and other departmental data to support budget planning.
• May assist with entering budget data.

Policies/Processes

• Process reviews to remove or update outdated, ineffective or noncompliant policies and procedures.
• Propose improvements and efficiencies in non-standard procurement processes.

Compliance

• Review patient assistance expenses for the Care Management Division for compliance with institutional and federal rules.

Data Queries

• Research financial and accounting questions on behalf of CNEI hub using Oracle, Cognos, Webi, Epic and Axiom.

Non-Analytical Financial tasks

• Reconcile vendor invoices against spreadsheets, vouchers, or patient chart data for accuracy, compliance, and approval.
• Submit invoices to AP for payment.
• Follow up with vendors regarding invoice and payment questions.
• Process disbursement requests.
• Support effort certification & labor adjustments.
• Perform revenue reconciliation, including tracking and coding physical checks received for deposit.
• Reconcile Pharmacy Industrial Account usage for Care Management.
• Perform other miscellaneous non-financial tasks as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field from an accredited college or university; or equivalent combination of education and experience. AND
• Minimum of 1 year of relevant work experience.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to work in a high-volume setting.
• Proficiency with Excel.
• Ability to perform analysis related to operational improvements and business cases.
• Medical terminology knowledge.
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel.
• Intermediate to advanced skills with Microsoft Word.
• Ability to work with a variety of diverse customers, sometimes in difficult situations.
• Ability to prioritize work demands and adjust as priorities change.
• Demonstrated excellent communication and conflict-resolution skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Healthcare experience.
• Contract experience.
• Oracle experience.
• MMIS system.
• Inpatient Epic.
• Financial processes.
• Excel spreadsheet creation and maintenance.
• Program coordination.
• Management of external customer relations.
• Contract interpreting.
• Manager reporting.
• Process and protocol creation and maintenance.
• Collaborative problem solving.

Compensation & Benefits

Healthcare and insurance

• Healthcare for full-time employees covered 100% and 88% for dependents.
• $50K of term life insurance provided at no cost to the employee.

Retirement

• Two separate above market pension plans to choose from.

Paid time off and holidays

• Vacation: up to 200 hours per year dependent on length of service.
• Sick Leave: up to 96 hours per year.
• 9 paid holidays per year.

Additional benefits

• Substantial Tri-Met and C-Tran discounts.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Childcare service discounts.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee discounts to local and national businesses.

Location

Not specified in the provided job description.