Government Accounting & Reporting Analyst

Responsibilities

• Prepare journal entries and reconciliations, analyze financial transactions to ensure accuracy, and report findings to management.
• Monitor enrollment, utilization, and costs of contracted providers and government health plans.
• Provide necessary information to facilitate negotiations with contracted providers and ensure that the cost of those contracts falls within the expected government health plans' budgets.
• Monitor all incoming payments (i.e., capitation) and other settlements according to the provider or government contract terms, as well as HMSA operating expenses and premium billing, reconciliation, and collections.
• Initiate and track payments to vendors, hospitals, government entities and others in accordance with contract terms.
• Supports government program accounting, provider contract administration, audits, and reporting initiatives by performing assigned duties and analyses, identifying routine discrepancies, and escalating complex issues.
• Assume ownership of MicroStrategy reports and periodically run reports for various teams.
• Ensure that government plans' financial transactions are being coordinated and reported properly to impacted departments (primarily Underwriting and F/A).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and one year of related work experience; or an equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
• Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Project Management Skills: Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex projects and assignments with formatted output, narrative and data interpretation.
• Financial Skills: Demonstrated ability to prepare financial analyses and cost-benefit studies with design requirements, output format and analysis of results.
• Accounting Skills: Demonstrated ability to properly record financial transactions and prepare financial statements.
• Presentation Skills: Strong oral and written skills for presentation to Executive staff.
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including but not limited to Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Demonstrated ability to properly record financial transactions and prepare financial statements.