Accountant

The accountant supports the financial health of Miriam School and Learning Center by ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, compliance with policies, strategic financial guidance, and strong collaboration across departments. Reporting to the Accounting Manager and collaborating closely with the Director of the Miriam Learning Center ("MLC"). This position is primarily responsible for managing MLC's full-cycle billing process, provides accounting and financial support, performs grant management, executes data analysis, and contributes to the development and implementation of systems, policies, and procedures. Success in this role requires proactive problem-solving with a strong understanding of financial compliance, collections, and reporting.

Essential Responsibilities

• Maintain integrity of financial records by accurately recording, verifying, consolidating, and entering transactions, including billing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, grant compliance, data analysis, payroll reconciliations, and other related entries.
• Manage the complete MLC billing process, including invoice generation, payment processing and posting, reconciliations, and uphold integrity of billing records and systems.
• Handles client communications for all billing-related onboarding, inquiries, resolve complex issues collaboratively, initiate collections, and establish payment plans with professionalism.
• Upkeep billing codes in systems to accurately track compliance for grant and financial data.
• Leverage the full capabilities of current financial systems and assist in the research, design, and implementation of new billing systems as needed.
• Evaluate and recommend internal control processes and procedures to ensure audit compliance and adherence to best practices.
• Prepare, analyze, and distribute monthly billing metrics, summaries, grant and financial reports for departmental and funding agencies accurately and on time to ensure adherence to grant requirements and support management decision-making.
• Supports internal and external audits and accreditations by preparing schedules, providing necessary documentation, and responding to inquiries.
• Assist with annual budget preparation, income statement forecasting, staffing analysis, long-term planning, and grant applications and renewals.
• Provide cross-training and support team members in financial operation as needed.
• Safeguard organizational information by maintaining confidentiality and ensuring accuracy.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Required Skills and Abilities

Experience and Education