Accountant

JOB SUMMARY

The Accountant at North Mississippi Health Services is responsible for facilitating timely and accurate accounting and payment tracking, Accounts Receivable, bank reconciliations, and COBRA payments. This role operates under the guidance of the Director of Financial and Business Services and engages strong organizational and communication skills to ensure accurate and timely transmission of data and bills, assist with budget preparation, generate reports, provide audit support, and interface effectively with internal and external stakeholders to provide organized, efficient, and accurate accounting. The Accountant also remains flexible and adaptable to provide support on Special Projects as needed to promote effective organizational function.

JOB FUNCTIONS

Intermediate Responsibilities:

  • In-depth analyzation of financial statements to report to Leadership and Board

  • Evaluate and analyze debt issues.

  • Ensure general ledger processing is completed on schedule.

  • Monitor investment balances and earnings.

  • Primary responsibility pertaining to cash flow supporting all other companies.

  • Primary responsibility regarding analysis of complicated cash accounts and cash on hand reconciliations.

  • Work collaboratively with IT department regarding significant complex transactions and structure.

  • Responsible for thorough analysis of complex AR and reserve work

  • Contributes to quarterly AR Hindsight analysis

  • Significantly more detailed monthly reporting package with deeper needed and expected explanations of variances

  • Responsible for specific supply cost per case and drug cost analysis by department

  • Actively participate in creation of detailed salary analysis by department

  • Responsible for monitor and review of significantly higher complex prepaids and accruals.

General Accounting/Financial Reporting:

  • Prepare and record journal entries and outside system activity not automatically interfaced with the general ledger.

  • Primary responsibility for reviewing the general ledger to insure accurate maintenance of the ledger with correct balances.

  • Maintain current reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts, including outside A/R systems.

  • Primary responsibility for preparing the monthly income statements (current year-to-date and last year-to-date), the balance sheet, statement of cash flows, stats page and budget variance analysis to be presented to hospital management, senior leadership and the Board of Directors.

  • Prepares the AR reserve workpapers and calculations to properly record AR reserves for month end balances. 

  • Prepares the monthly Allowance and Bad Debt Volume/Mix/Rate analysis that provides some insight as to the changes in monthly Net Revenue.

Periodic/Statistical Reporting:

  • Responsible for collecting data and preparing statistical reports for their assigned companies. This position works with the Decision •Support dept as well to keep accurate statistical information in the financial packets.

  • Assemble data and prepare special periodic reports such as Sales/Use Tax Returns and Bureau of the Census reports and other special periodic reports as assigned by the manager or director.

Subsidiary Records:

  • Responsible for the maintenance of the major asset register for their assigned companies.

Budget:

  • Actively participates in the preparation and review of the budget for their assigned companies to assure the timely and satisfactory completion of the budgeting process.

Audit:

  • Primary responsibility for assisting internal and external auditors by providing accounting documents to enable the audit to be completed in a timely and efficient manner.