Accounts Payable Clerk

Job description

Overview
Responsible for providing financial, administrative and clerical services. Process and monitor payments andexpenditures. Provide these services in an effective and efficient manner ensuring that finances are accurate andup to date.
Responsibilities
Establish and maintain positive relationships with patients, visitors, andother employees. Interacts professionally, courteously, andappropriately with patients, visitors and other employees. Behaves in amanner consistent with maintaining and furthering a positive publicperception of BronxCare Health System and its employee.
Contributes to and participates in the Performance/Quality Improvementactivities of the assigned department. Contribution and participationincludes data collection, analysis, implementation of and compliancewith risk management and claims activities, support of and participationin Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) teams, consistent adherenceto the specific rules and regulations of the BronxCare Health System(a)Safety and Security Policies, (b) Risk Management: Incident andOccurrence Reporting, (c) Infection Control Policies and Proceduresand (d) Patient and Customer Service.
Plan, organize and schedule workload in an efficient and effectivemanner allowing workload to remain current.
Adjust to new and/or changing requirements as to workload andunusual heavy pressure.
Responsible for processing various types of transactions includingreviewing vendor invoices, data entry of vendor invoices, employeeexpense reports and manual check request vouchers.
Responsible for reviewing monthly vendor account statements.
Responsible for preparing weekly vendor payment list.
Maintain vendor contact information including 1099 information currentfor use on the Vendor Master File in the Keane System.
Responsible for scanning of all required work in legible and useablemanner. Required to maintain scanning log records.
Communicate and resolve vendor payment inquiries, invoice problemsas well as understanding the procedure used to effectively manage this.
Familiar with all policies and procedures used in performing relative jobrequirements.
Establish productive working relationships and deal smoothly,effectively and cooperatively with management as well as co-workers.
Familiar and assist with scanning and indexing of all required work inlegible and usable manner.
Delivers correspondence to Finance and Purchasing departments asneeded.
Reviews processed check request for accuracy.
Receives, opens, logs, sorts, time-stamps and distributes mail asinstructed in a timely manner.
Qualifications
Two (2) years of Accounts Payable processing experienceGeneral knowledge of accounting principlesExperience in a Health Care environment preferredStrong communication skills both verbal and writtenAbility to multi-task and willingness to learn new skillsAbility to deal effectively with tight month end closing process
High School/GED Diploma Required