Senior Government Accounting & Reporting Analyst

Responsibilities

• Independently manage complex accounting processes, reporting activities, reconciliations, audits, and cross-functional projects.
• Serves as a subject matter resource for government program accounting and reporting, providing day-to-day guidance and training.
• Prepare complex 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.
• 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 two years related work experience; or an equivalent combination of education and 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 lead accounting activities associated with government programs including Medicare, Medicaid, Federal Programs, and other assigned initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain adequate documentation for general reference and audit purposes.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex financial and operational data and present findings, risks, and recommendations to management.
• Demonstrated ability to recommend and implement reporting enhancements and process efficiencies.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate alternative solutions/decisions in light of the potential impact on internal/external resources; understand the resource implications of solutions and make other potential recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to validate and maintain quality and consistency of data and reporting; on a proactive basis identify and isolate potential problems and work with staff within and outside of the department to develop and implement resolutions; develop and communicate data adjustments and workarounds.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate root causes of data and reporting issues and implement corrective actions.
• Demonstrated ability to perform reimbursement and provider contracting strategies; prepare reports that measure the effectiveness of reimbursement and contracting terms and the influence they may have on overall program/plan cost and utilization.