Position: Accountant
Location: Helena, MT OR Chicago, IL (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-Time Contract
Pay: $39-43 per hour
Description: This position is responsible for the Claims/Checks/Refund balancing for the Commercial as well as Government Line of a Business.
Responsibilities:
- Review of daily claims offshore balancing processes utilizing Alteryx Automated System and follow-up on any variances with partner areas or vendor resources
- Perform accounting and analysis at an advanced level, preparing journal entries and account reconciliations, reporting and communicating issues/discrepancies to management and recommending operational solutions
- Assist with project support impacting various areas of Financial Operations
- Control and monitor various departmental accounting related activities
- Complete journal vouchers
- Develop ad-hoc reports
- Generate monthly recap information necessary to support monthly statistical reporting
- Research & troubleshoot challenging questions and unusual cases, responding to complex or escalated questions, issues, or volatile situations
- Report operational activity contracts with preparing YTD financial statements for the line of business and subsidiary companies
- Partner with operational departments to obtain support for entries and processing prior/current period adjustments based on the changes
- Support the internal as well as external audit inquiries including MAR, audit services as well as EY requests on a monthly, quarterly & annual basis
- Provide support to the automation projects and provide input from accounting perspectives for process improvements
- Point of contact for various adhoc inquiries for claim, transactions, activities and suspense
Requirements:
- Bachelors in Accounting or Finance and at least 3 years' accounting experience; OR 6 years of accounting experience
- Experience auditing accounts to ensure they are in balance, cash has been allocated, and aging is current
- Experience with monthly preparation of account reconciliations and research of any variances that arise due to reconciling items
- Intermediate to Advanced MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint knowledge
- Previous Alteryx experience
- Keen analytical skills and very detail oriented
- Ability to work independently and multi-task
- Clear, concise written and oral communication with good grammar and word choice
- Ability to read and interpret financial reports
Preferred:
- Experience with Macros, Formulas, Monarch Tool, and PowerBI
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