Accountant

Long Island Select Healthcare Inc.•Central Islip, NY

12d•$70,000 - $82,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Accountant will collect, interpret, and report financial data to help support the finance and administrative team in developing agency-wide decisions and strategies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Science, or Business Administration.
Advance knowledge of accounting platforms such as: Great Plains, FundEZ, Quickbooks, etc.
Experience with Accounting and B.I. packages such as Great Plains, Solomon, Quickbooks, Cognos, etc.
Minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience in finance and/or accounting in a healthcare environment.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office software and Accounting software including but not limited to Excel, PowerPoint, B.I. software, Outlook, Word, etc.

Nice To Haves

A28 clinic/FQHC, healthcare network, or hospital setting experience strongly preferred.
Experience with cost reporting, such as Medicaid and/or Medicare preferred.

Responsibilities

Gather, organize, and interpret financial data from all sources and ensure accurate cost reporting.
Identifies variances and business gap areas which require senior management’s attention.
Assists with maintain and updating the general ledger.
Devotes time to risk management activities as related to accounts receivable and compliance activities.
Prepare financial reports with reliable conclusions which management can use to implement more effective operational strategies, including but not limited to variance and reimbursement rate analyses.
Assists in developing forecasting models for revenue and expenditures.
Assist in all monthly accounting processes.
Creates and writes financial reports to help streamline processes while assuring real-time reporting.
Assists in identifying business improvements initiatives.
Other duties as assigned.