Business Office Manager

Brookstone Assisted Living•Fayetteville, AR

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Brookstone Assisted Living in Fayetteville, AR is looking for a Business Office Manager. The Business Office Manager assists the Executive Director in ensuring that all functional areas required to operate the facility are covered at all times. The Business Office Manager's primary duty consists of managing and overseeing the accounting and general bookkeeping of the facility. The Business Office Manager may be required to work additional hours at the Executive Director's request. The Business Office Manager must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. He/she must possess basic clerical skills; typing, filing, light bookkeeping, computer proficiency and be able to work in an environment with multiple interruptions. The position requires a pleasant nature and a willingness and desire to work with the elderly. The Business Office Manager is responsible for providing information and referral to residents, visitors, staff, and prospective clients in a positive, service-oriented manner.

Requirements

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Basic clerical skills; typing, filing, light bookkeeping, computer proficiency.
Ability to work in an environment with multiple interruptions.
Pleasant nature and a willingness and desire to work with the elderly.
Exceptional communication and conflict resolution skills.
Typing and computer skills.
Ability to function as a team member.
Good interpersonal skills with all levels of staff, residents, families, and the public.

Nice To Haves

Potential for exposure to blood/body fluids not likely.

Responsibilities

Professionally answer phones and accepting appropriate information or messages.
Provide backup receptionist duties to ensure the front desk is properly covered during business hours.
Professionally greet visitors and direct inquiries.
Promote and maintain positive relations with residents, their families, staff, and guests.
Accept initial inquiry information and provide marketing tours and arrange marketing meals, as appropriate.
Participate in the recruiting, interviewing, evaluation, and supervision of receptionist staff and provide general direction to these employees to ensure staff hours, quality services, and customer service is met at all times.
Assist the Executive Director and key department leaders with thoroughly checking all employees' references, background checks, coordinating/tracking pre-employment drug screening and TB testing, professional licenses, coordinating/tracking new hire documents and other related new hire items.
Assist Executive Director and key department leaders with tracking annual performance evaluations for staff.
Receive and distribute mail to appropriate personnel and residents.
Ensure proper business office documents and postings are regularly updated and monitored for the staff bulletin boards, resident bulletin boards and other related communication areas.
Assist Executive Director and/or Life Enrichment Coordinator with seasonal decorating.
Maintain office calendar of move-in/move-outs, staff vacations, events, etc. for reference.
Assist and participate in emergency procedures to maintain resident safety, i.e., fire drills.
Assist monthly in-service and staff training sessions, as necessary.
Accept and receipt monthly rental and other payments.
Maintain records of all payments received on applicable tenant account cards.
Enter deposits on a daily basis into the A/R system, process deposits via scanner or take to the bank and file records.
Update the A/R system on a daily basis with census changes; move-ins, move-outs, transfers and level of care changes.
Maintain good and open communication with the Marketing Director for smooth transmittance of information.
Generate monthly resident billings; review for accuracy.
Monitor and collect past due rents in a timely manner to include working with Medicaid case managers, residents, family members and/or responsible parties.
Follow Frontier Management collection policy.
Maintain resident, employee and other business files.
Manage time clock records; enter time off data; review missed punches; conduct error review 2 times per week; communicate clock-in policies with employees and inform department heads of any employee policy misuse/abuse.
Review semi-monthly payroll data and coordinate with Staff Accountant for final submission.
Prepare semi-monthly timecards for facility staff and calculate regular and overtime hours worked for each pay period.
Enter payroll hours into the intranet website semimonthly for payroll processing.
Enter new employee information, wage changes, address changes, and employee termination information into the intranet website in a timely manner.
Code Accounts Payable invoices, submit to the Executive Director for review, make a copy to keep in the business office and send original invoices to the Home Office weekly.
Communicate with Staff Accounting as often as necessary to ensure A/P, A/R, and payroll processes are operating smoothly and to resolve any issues in a timely manner.
Follow up with vendors for missing invoices, as necessary.
Perform any additional job duties set by the Executive Director while completing assigned duties which may change from time to time according to resident needs, staffing levels, working circumstances, and corporate directives.