Accounts Payable Clerk

Financial Services Professional

Responsible for providing financial, administrative and clerical services. Process and monitor payments and expenditures. Provide these services in an effective and efficient manner ensuring that finances are accurate and up to date.

Establish and maintain positive relationships with patients, visitors, and other employees. Interacts professionally, courteously, and appropriately with patients, visitors and other employees. Behaves in a manner consistent with maintaining and furthering a positive public perception of BronxCare Health System and its employee.

Contributes to and participates in the Performance/Quality Improvement activities of the assigned department. Contribution and participation includes data collection, analysis, implementation of and compliance with risk management and claims activities, support of and participation in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) teams, consistent adherence to the specific rules and regulations of the BronxCare Health System (a) Safety and Security Policies, (b) Risk Management: Incident and Occurrence Reporting, (c) Infection Control Policies and Procedures and (d) Patient and Customer Service.

Plan, organize and schedule workload in an efficient and effective manner allowing workload to remain current.

Adjust to new and/or changing requirements as to workload and unusual heavy pressure.

Responsible for processing various types of transactions including reviewing vendor invoices, data entry of vendor invoices, employee expense 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 current for use on the Vendor Master File in the Keane System.

Responsible for scanning of all required work in legible and useable manner. Required to maintain scanning log records.

Communicate and resolve vendor payment inquiries, invoice problems as well as understanding the procedure used to effectively manage this.

Familiar with all policies and procedures used in performing relative job requirements.

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 in legible and usable manner.

Delivers correspondence to Finance and Purchasing departments as needed.

Reviews processed check request for accuracy.

Receives, opens, logs, sorts, time-stamps and distributes mail as instructed in a timely manner.

Two (2) years of Accounts Payable processing experience. General knowledge of accounting principles. Experience in a Health Care environment preferred. Strong communication skills both verbal and written. Ability to multi-task and willingness to learn new skills. Ability to deal effectively with tight month end closing process.

High School/GED Diploma Required