ACCOUNT ANALYST

Responsibilities

• Supports financial operations, billing accuracy, reconciliations, purchasing workflows, and reporting across multiple facilities.
• Ensures compliance with accounting standards, contract requirements, and internal controls while providing analytical and operational support to management and field locations.
• Reviews and validates monthly facility invoices for accuracy, contract compliance, census data, and required documentation prior to posting.
• Ensures compliance with accounting policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Analyzes monthly budgets and forecasts compared to actual results and researches and provides explanation for variances.
• Maintains a log of vendor and client invoices and payments to produce monthly reports of outstanding payments and collection activities.
• Compiles, summarizes, and provides reports, budgets, and monthly analyses of expenditures to Reentry Finance Management and Operations.
• Performs monthly bank and balance sheet reconciliations, investigates discrepancies, and prepares adjusting journal entries.
• Analyses and makes recommendations for financial results related to operational development.
• Generates and distributes recurring financial and operational reports (census, travel, expense trackers).
• Analyzes budget vs. actual results and prepares variance explanations for assigned expense categories.
• Ensures compliance with accounting policies, contractual requirements, and internal control procedures.
• Contacts clients to correct discrepancies in payments and invoices.
• Responds to questions and inquiries from the client, operations, or corporate staff.
• Manages relationship with the client to negotiate payment disputes and discrepancies.
• Completes requests in a timely manner.
• Manages supplemental invoice process to ensure timely payment remittance.
• Travels to various sites as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, or Finance.
• Four (4) years progressive experience in a finance-related role with budget preparation and control or administration of government contracts.
• Experience can substitute for education on a year-for-year basis.
• Able to work successfully with a high degree of independence and minimal direction.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to identify and resolve the questions and issues that arise as a result of completing daily work activities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to interact with Program Managers and business office staff in the field to resolve questions and problems.
• Demonstrated exposure working with standard concepts, practices and procedures applied in an analysis capacity.
• Experience with Essbase/Smartview, and accounting systems a plus.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office, with strong Excel skills.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to successfully manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Able to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department.