Accountant IV

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina•Columbia, SC

4d•Onsite

About The Position

This is a Cost Accountant position that may include the following tasks: pricing products or services, monthly billings, monthly reconciliations and pool allocations of financial accounts related to direct and indirect costs, intercompany reports, analysis and trending calculations, problem solving, researching and explaining variances, presentations and recommendations of financial data to upper management and executives, assists with budgets and audits. Requires intermediate to expert level of Excel experience, attention to detail and strong analytical ability to interpret financial data. Companion Data Services- one of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina’s subsidiary companies. This position is full-time (40-hours/week) Monday-Friday in a typical office environment. You will work an 8-hour shift scheduled during our normal business hours of 8:00AM-5:00PM. It may be necessary, based on business demands that exceed the standard 40-hour workweek. This role is located at 2401 Faraway Drive Columbia, SC 29223.

Requirements

Bachelor's in a job-related field with 24 semester hours in Accounting. (Anyone hired prior to August 1, 2008 in an accounting position only requires 21 semester hours of Accounting).
8 years of accounting experience.
Comprehensive knowledge of fundamental accounting concepts, practices and procedures.
Knowledge of mathematical and statistical concepts.
Able to persuade, influence or negotiate with others.
Possesses excellent leadership, communication, organizational and analytical skills.
Strong decision-making skills.
Ability to work independently.
Microsoft Office.
Ability to use data retrieval applications.

Responsibilities

Exercises accounting control over a group of accounts within a given specialized area.
Analyzes complex financial data and/or extracts and/or defines relevant information; interprets data for the purpose of determining past financial performance and/or/or to project a financial probability.
Records, classifies, and/or summarizes financial transactions and/or events in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
Provides information to customers, explains accounting transactions, and/or resolves accounting issues and/or discrepancies.
Prepares journal entries and/or reconciles the general ledger accounts.
Analyzes financial transactions to ensure the proper recording of revenues to the general ledger.
Researches expenses and/or explains cost and/or allocation variances.
Prepares budget for assigned departments and/or assists cost center managers as needed.
Ensures expenses are allocated in accordance with business contracts and/or departmental operating standards.
Develops financial reports for financial analysis, forecasting, trending, budgeting and/or results analysis.
Uses various software applications, such as spreadsheets, relational databases, statistical packages, and/or graphics packages to assemble, manipulate and/or/or format data and/or/or reports.
Reviews the work of less experienced staff members.
Prepares and/or presents training sessions in response to repetitive errors identified in the work performed by those associates.
Reviews departmental policies, procedures, and/or forms used by the staff to identify areas of potential improvement in those documents.
Suggests updates and/or improvements and/or prepares a preliminary draft of the policies including the updates or improvements as necessary.
Responds to requests for proposals.
Develops rates and/or pricing assumptions.
Reviews contract clauses.
Prepares miscellaneous documents and/or detailed audit package that supports all elements of the proposal.
Handle special projects as assigned by department manager and/or or requested by other groups such as, but no limited to, coordination of various internal and/or external audit projects, compilation of data for audits by internal and/or external auditors, functionality of accounting/costing system, coordination and/or implementation of system enhancements and/or releases with information systems and/or working with information systems to test and/or monitor internal controls and/or corrective/preventive actions for department.