Cost Accountant

SBHU•East Setauket, NY

8d•Onsite

About The Position

At Stony Brook Medicine, our Financial Analyst, Cost Accountant is a valuable member of our Strategic Analytics team. The Financial Analyst completes and maintains the build and functionality within the Syntellis (formerly McKesson) Decision Support Cost Model. They execute and validate cost accounting jobs and yielded results on a recurring basis. This position also produces and documents costing used in Strategic Analytic reports and/or the Business Intelligence tool. This position works closely with others in Finance and clinical departments.

Requirements

A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, or related field.
A minimum 2 years' progressive finance experience.
Advanced Microsoft Office, and Excel skills.
Strong analytical skills with ability to collect, organize, synthesize and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively interact with employees at all levels of the organization.
Verification of degree (e.g., diploma or official transcript) is required for this role. Upload of documentation must be included with your application for consideration.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of hospital financial analysis and cost accounting.
Experience with accounting concepts, budget processes, analytics and planning, service line profitability, forecasting concepts in a healthcare setting.
Experience with integration and interfacing of data feeds from hospital source systems to Decision Support, Cost Accounting Systems.
Experience with SQL or building Tableau dashboards.

Responsibilities

Completes and maintains the build and functionality within the Syntellis Cost Model.
Maintains and modifies the data structure around all aspects of our cost accounting model including General Ledger (GL), Payroll, Revenue and Expense Reclassifications, Overhead Allocations, Activity and Encounter Costing.
Modifies and creates monthly statistics, documenting any changes in methodology.
Executes and validates cost accounting jobs and yielded results on a recurring basis.
Runs costing jobs in a timely and efficient manner by referring to a task calendar containing current and expected scheduled jobs.
Assists in the validation that the cost methodology produces accurate results.
Creates worksheets in Syntellis that contain cost fields (via formulas or existing) that align with business needs or requirements for specific analyses.
Assists in reviewing and validating costs utilizing the Hospital’s BI tool at the completion of every costing cycle and/or refresh.
Assists Sr. Analyst with validation of data to our Decision Support System.
Assists in monthly processing and auditing of GL and Payroll files into Decision Support system, including batch set up, preparation and maintenance as relates to cost accounting processing
Assists in weekly auditing of billing data Integrated into the system.
Runs and downloads reports to Excel in support of revenue calculations and field audits.
Performs other work-related duties as assigned.