Accounts Payable Clerk

Responsible for providing financial, administrative and clerical services.

Responsibilities

• Process and monitor payments andexpenditures.
• Provide these services in an effective and efficient manner ensuring that finances are accurate andup to date.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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