Accounting Clerk (Health Care Services)

About the position

The Accounting Clerk position within Hillsborough County Health Care Services is responsible for performing intermediate level accounting tasks related to the Hillsborough County Health Care Plan (HCHCP). This role involves processing revenues and expenditures, conducting reconciliations, and preparing various fiscal reports. The position is part of a six-person fiscal team and contributes to the management of the county's health care budget.

Responsibilities

• Reconciles expense and revenue accounts, sub ledgers to general ledger; and identifies and initiates corrective actions.
• Acts as the fiscal liaison for departmental staff; researches funding restrictions, searches and analyzes expenditures.
• Reconciles Purchase Orders to invoices and receipts.
• Prepares Standard Miscellaneous Batches, Journal Entries, Event Billings, and Deposit Journals.
• Receives funds, prepares deposits, and reconciles bank statements.
• Provides local, state, federal, and annual financial audit assistance.
• Assists with the preparation of the department's operating and capital budgets.
• Initiates and/or approves fiscal transactions in the automated accounting system.
• Manages departmental invoice payments which includes monitoring and taking corrective action for financial transactions to include Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Customer Accounts, Projects/Grants, etc.
• Validates labor allocations and prepares/updates forms.
• Reconciles customer accounts and submits billing information and processes customer refunds; prepares aged receivables schedules.
• Reviews and analyzes monthly fiscal transactions; identifies issues; and recommends and prepares corrective action.
• Prepares various fiscal reports i.e. payroll, expenditure detail, customer account analysis, aging reports.
• Performs other duties as needed, including those performed by subordinate fiscal, financial, and clerical staff.

Requirements

• Associate's degree with a major in Accounting or Finance; AND
• Two years of experience in bookkeeping or financial record keeping; OR
• An equivalent combination of education (not less than possession of a high school diploma/GED), training and experience that would reasonably be expected to provide the job-related competencies noted above.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in health care and/or human services fields.
• Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong writing skills.