Accountant - Behavioral Health

Job Details

Job Location

Yakima, WA

Position Type

Full Time

Education Level

2 Year Degree

Salary Range

$31.00 - $38.00 Hourly

Travel Percentage

Up to 25%

Job Shift

Day

Description

Position Summary :

The Accountant performs accounting functions for a variety of programs, providing financial support primarily to the behavioral health department. The position researches, understands, and applies state and federal laws, and agencies' requirements, rules, and regulations. The position works in a team environment, contributing to the success and credibility of the finance office in a variety of roles with a willingness to take on new responsibilities, improve efficiencies, solve problems and provide backup to other accounting office staff. The Accountant is self-motivated, adaptable to change, and detail oriented.

Grants & Contracts :

• Perform technical accounting and bookkeeping work in grants billing and processing, maintaining specialized documentation of grants information and codes allowable expenses.
• Assist in providing timely billing and revenue information for monitoring visits by funders.
• Prepare and review invoices to receive grant reimbursements, research invoices or expenditure discrepancies, submit invoices for authorization, mail invoices for reimbursement, post invoices to accounting system, and generate reports from financial software.
• Communicate with program managers to confirm required monthly contract goals are met.
• Reconcile and oversee client assistance logs to the general ledger in preparation for invoicing.
• Review general ledger for contract expense and completes worksheet to reconcile incoming cash receipts to the expenses.
• Investigate and follow up on discrepancies in contract reconciliation and any overpayments and refunds.

Behavioral Health Payables & Cash Receipts :

General Accounting :

Assists with other work as assigned.

Qualifications

Job Requirements :

The following requirements are those that are normally required for the performance of this position. Any disabled applicant who does not meet one or more of the requirements, but who can perform the essential functions of the job (with or without reasonable accommodations) shall be deemed to meet these requirements.

Physical Requirements :

This position normally requires the physical demands of standing, walking, bending, lifting, or performing other work requiring low physical exertion, talking, and hearing on a regular basis to perform the job requirements. These physical demands are required up to 90% of the time.

Non-Physical Requirements :

Education

Experience

Special Skills

Licensure, Registration, Certification

Employment is conditional upon :

Being cleared by criminal background check and fingerprinting when required

Work Schedule : Monday- Friday, 8 : 00am-5 : 00pm

Wage Range : $31.00 - $38.00 per hour, depending on experience

Benefits :

It is the practice of Catholic Charities to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, citizenship status, marital status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Applicants from underrepresented backgrounds are encouraged to apply. We gladly offer reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities to support participation in the hiring process and employment.