Accounting Technician

Grand Traverse County Health Department; Traverse City (MI); On-site; USD 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Grand Traverse County Health Department is hiring an Accounting Technician responsible for managing accounts payable and assisting with financial reporting. The ideal candidate will have an Associate's Degree in Accounting or a related field, along with 2-4 years of relevant experience.

This role involves routine accounting tasks, customer service, and maintaining financial accuracy in a health department setting. Familiarity with medical billing and coding is advantageous.

Qualifications

• Experience with accounts payable and receivable processes.
• Knowledge of financial reporting and month-end close.
• Familiarity with CPT and ICD-10 coding is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Performs routine general accounting activities and reconciliations.
• Monitors department budget activity and reports variances.
• Provides customer service on financial inquiries and documents.

Skills

General accounting activities

Financial analysis

Customer service

Spreadsheet proficiency

Education

Associate’s Degree in Accounting or related field

2-4 years of directly related accounting experience

Job description

This Accounting Technician position is assigned to the Health Department. The Health Department has multiple cost centers to accurately allocate expenses and revenue. The primary responsibilities of this position include accounts payable, credit card reconciliation, employee cost allocations, mail processing, and assistance with month-end close and financial reporting.In addition, this position provides support for medical billing and accounts receivable functions. Familiarity with insurance, as well as CPT and ICD-10 coding, is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Performs routine general accounting activities, including collecting, interpreting, and analyzing financial data; performing account reconciliations; and preparing a variety of financial reports.
• Reviews, verifies, and posts account transactions to journals, ledgers, and other applicable records. Prepares and records adjusting and closing journal entries.
• Assists with compiling, analyzing, and reconciling financial and other information for a variety of department activities, such as participating in year-end financial closing activities; resolving issues that may result from changes to established policies, procedures, or conditions; locating individuals, businesses, or other applicable parties who owe or are due money.
• Processes a variety of both routine and complex financial forms, documents, payments, adjustments, requests, and information.
• Provides customer service, including delivery of accurate, prompt, and courteous assistance on complex policies, guidelines, and standard practices to internal and external customers, both verbally and in writing.
• Creates and maintains a variety of spreadsheets, logs and databases.
• Performs a variety of specialized research and audits regarding accounts in assigned area of responsibility and resolves related discrepancies or erroneous data.
• Monitors department budget activity, and identifies and reports potential financial overruns and variances at an early stage.
• Sorts, files, and maintains materials and filing systems (paper, computer or imaging), retrieves file materials, and keeps a record of file movement.
• Monitors and maintains appropriate levels of supplies and inventory for assigned area of responsibility.
• Performs a variety of routine clerical activities in support of departmental operations and activities.

Qualifications

• Associate’s Degree in Accounting or related field
• Two to four years of directly related accounting experience
• May substitute associate’s degree for two years of experience