Accounting Operations, Intermediate

Your Role

Accounting Operations oversees the end-to-end invoice and expense payment process, including cash disbursements, stop payments, and vendor registration. The team is responsible for ensuring timely payments, regulatory and policy compliance, strong internal controls, and audit readiness.

The Accounting Operations, Intermediate will report to the Accounting Operations Supervisor. In this role you will be responsible for daily Accounts Payable tasks including check-handling, responding to customer inquiries, processing invoices and/or expenses, enforcing the T&E Policy, preparing month-end journal entries, reclasses and reconciling account balances. The Accounting Operations, Intermediate leverages a thorough knowledge of accounting principles to analyze financial information and maintain accurate financial records.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Track open items and support unpaid/aging reports by gathering credit and reference information
• Maintain master data and reporting tables; run, format, and distribute standard reports
• Resolve routine past-due items using phone/email and documented collection steps
• Requires experience working cross-functionally, preferably with other teams
• Manage higher-volume transactions and more complex accounts; track delinquency through resolution
• Prepare monthly collections/status reports and complete basic research to resolve variances
• Resolve routine discrepancies (refunds/checks) and reconcile accounts; ensure accurate system updates
• Reconcile totals and produce summary reports, including simple comparisons for review
• Work independently on routine items; escalate exceptions and policy questions

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a High School Diploma or GED or 1 year of additional relevant experience in lieu of a diploma
• Requires 3 years prior relevant experience
• Requires knowledge of accounting principles and accounts payable processes and procedures
• Requires proficiency using accounting software (Concur, Oracle, etc.) and MS Office (Excel)
• Requires outstanding customer service skills
• Concur and Oracle expense / invoice processing experience highly desired, including experience creating reports on these platforms
• Experience completing and reconciling journal entries is highly desired

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week. Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

ABOUT THE TEAM
About Blue Shield of California and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

As of January 2025, Blue Shield of California became a subsidiary of Ascendiun. Ascendiun is a nonprofit corporate entity that is the parent to a family of organizations including Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan; Altais, a clinical services company; and Stellarus, a company designed to scale healthcare solutions. Together, these organizations are referred to as the Ascendiun Family of Companies.

At Ascendiun, we believe in a brighter future for healthcare. As the parent to a family of four innovative healthcare companies, we’re reimagining what’s possible. Ascendiun is guided by the goal of transforming a dysfunctional American health care system into one worthy of our family and friends and sustainably affordable for everyone.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values:

• Honest . We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
• Human . We strive to listen and communicate effectively, and showing empathy by understanding others’ perspectives.
• Courageous . We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.