General Accounting Specialist - Insight

At Insight Hospital and Medical Center- Chicago, we believe there is a better way to provide quality healthcare while achieving health equity. Our Chicago location looks forward to working closely with our neighbors and residents, to build a full-service community hospital in the Bronzeville area of Chicago; creating a comprehensive plan to increase services and meet community needs. With a growing team that is dedicated to delivering world-class service to everyone we meet, it is our mission to deliver the most compassionate, loving, expert, and impactful care in the world to our patients. Be a part of the Insight Chicago team that provides PATIENT CARE SECOND TO NONE! If you would like to be a part of our future team, please apply now!

GENERAL SUMMARY:

Under the supervision of the Manager of Accounting, the General Accounting Specialist performs key transactional spreadsheet balancing and audit control functions to support the Accounting team. The Specialist will also receive, balance, and finalize the weekly Physician (non-W2 wage) payment files to be processed via the Accounts Payable team weekly. Download and balance daily cash statements, maintain, index, and store departmental procedures as required. Assist with researching and resolving accounting issues. Assist with system to system spreadsheet balancing for revenue, monthly close or other expense processes. Maintain and index audit documentation and workpapers for semi-annual and annual close.

These duties are to be performed in a highly confidential manner, in accordance with the mission, values and behaviors of Mercy Hospital and Medical Center. Employees are further expected to provide a high quality of care, service, and kindness toward all patients, staff, physicians, volunteers and guests.

• Prepares cash balancing, revenue, expense, and other key transactional spreadsheet balancing and other daily control balancing processes to support the monthly close
• Receive, audit, create and finalize the weekly Physician payment files for Accounts Payable processing
• Create/Maintain a repository of Physician payments for the year to reconcile back to control and ensure there are no transactional gaps
• Support Semi-Annual and Annual audits with documentation/workpapers, maintaining audit information on shared drive for future reference
• Assist with researching and resolving accounting issues
• Performs Other Duties as needed and assigned including advanced as hoc reports as required

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Three years of related experience
• Experience with ERP system (Peoplesoft/Oracle/other) preferred.
• Good analysis, problem solving and solutioning skills required.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) required...
• Great team player and organized
• Ability to work independently, and work well with deadlines (monthly General Ledger close, internal and external reporting deadlines, etc.) required.
• Proven efficiency in excel, word, MS Office
• Incredible attention to detail to catch errors