Accounting Specialist, A/R

Responsibilities

Kin On is looking for a full-time non-exempt Accounting Specialist, A/R who reports to the Finance Director. The position is fully on-site. The accounting specialist, A/R is responsible for the administration of the company’s revenue cycle and accounts receivable across all business units, including invoicing, recording receipts, and making collections. This role:

• Facilitates timely long-term and skilled care insurance billings, collections, and write-offs with outside experts
• Performs insurance validation, resident census reporting, and ensures resident-related bills charged to the facility are valid
• Invoices, collects, and records resident & home care non-covered charges (private pay) and premiums (participation fees)
• Records donations and Healthy Living class and membership fees received
• Prepares bad debt analysis
• Additionally, this position assists with grant invoicing, reconciling related balance sheet accounts, P&L revenue variance analysis, and provides backup for A/P and payroll functions.
  
  

Role And Responsibilities

• Record cash receipts to GL on a timely basis
• Promptly prepare A/R agings, bad debt analysis, and invoices with pristine accuracy
• Coordinate with external contracted experts to ensure billings, collections, and write-offs are processed promptly and recorded to the correct period. Help investigate and recover rejected claims
• Ensure appropriate internal controls and segregation of duties are maintained in the department, especially around cash handling
• Reconcile all accounts related to the revenue cycle, and other accounts as assigned
• Review and approve resident-related service bills to ensure any bills to Kin On are valid charges
• Assist with grant invoicing
• Provide P&L revenue variance analysis
• Identify and implement process improvements, including around invoice cost and accuracy
• Help department reduce the close timeline through efficient work
• Help support audits
• Support Kin On’s mission, vision, strategy and core values
• Performs other duties as assigned
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• At least one of the following:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution, preferably with a major in accounting or business,
• Two years of accounts receivable experience at a company with over $10M in revenue.
• Two years of business office management experience at a skilled nursing facility or large medical office/hospital.
• Working knowledge of revenue cycle and accounts receivable, and/or willingness to acquire knowledge quickly.
• Able to understand their work, related processes, and identify and remediate related issues.
• Computer literate, able to quickly learn new software.
• Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills, including the ability to research, analyze, and reconcile financial data.
• Candidate must be authorized to work in the United States
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Experience with Long-Term Care revenue cycle (billing & collections) and Medicaid/Medicare billings strongly preferred
• Bilingual in Chinese preferred
• Experience with PointClickCare (PCC) financial systems desired
• Customer service focused, treating co-workers and resident families with respect and a service mindset.
• Quick learner, can-do attitude, with efficient mindset to get the job done rather than work to the clock.
• Competence to work independently with minimal supervision, follow directions, balance multiple responsibilities, prioritize, and meet deadlines.
• Unquestionable integrity and honesty, able to keep sensitive data private, and always striving to do the right thing.
• Open to change, identifies and champions process improvement opportunities.
• Ability to work within a diverse workforce
  
  

Working Environment

This role interacts with a community-based organization. Work is performed within a normal office environment.