Staff Accountant

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title : Staff Accountant

Location : Brandywine

Job Type : Full-Time

Reports To : Controller

Salary Range : Commensurate with Experience

About Us :

GBMS is a non-profit organization that provides primary and preventive care services for both insured and uninsured patients. GBMS provides services to underserved individuals in three Maryland counties – Charles, Prince George’s, and St. Mary’s.

We are seeking a detail-oriented Staff Accountant to join our finance team. This role is ideal for someone early in their career looking to expand their accounting skills in a mission-driven environment. If you enjoy working with numbers, have strong organizational skills, and thrive in a collaborative setting, we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities :

• Maintain general ledger entries using double-entry accounting principles
• Collaborate with other departments to ensure proper financial documentation and coding
• Perform daily and monthly bank reconciliations
• Reconcile account discrepancies and resolve financial issues as they arise
• Review and approve accounts payable, ensuring correct coding, timely and accurate payments
• Prepare supporting schedules and documentation for audits
• Maintain reporting and oversight of grants; includes all grant accounting functions, preparation of required grant reports and maintaining grant documentation
• Assist with Cost report and UDS reporting; compile supporting documentation
• Assist with developing facility and departmental budgets, monthly budget analyses and reporting
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications :

Preferred Qualities :

Core Values : Quality Respect Teamwork Equity Integrity Passion Love

Supervisory Responsibility - None

Managerial Responsibilities - None

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or business administration.

Substitutions

Associate’s degree in accounting, finance or business administration, and two (2) years of work experience such as described in the essential work tasks.

Competencies Needed

Accountability - Meets established expectations and takes responsibility for achieving results; encourages others to do the same.

Analytical Skills – The ability to tackle a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach. Possess creative thinking, learning, systems thinking and problem solving. Must be effective at defining and solving problems to ensure that the real, underlying challenge is understood and that solutions address it.

Healthcare Systems – Knowledge of healthcare and medical terminology is a plus.

Interpersonal Skills – Work closely with other team members to effectively support their work so that solutions can be effectively implemented. Serves as a liaison for various staff and / or management and acts as the Point of Contact.

Results Oriented – The ability to focus on the desired results, setting challenging goals, focusing effort on the goals, and meeting or exceeding them.

Reporting - Drafts, runs, and distributes reports. Provides an overview and communicates report findings.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical and Mental Demands

Language Skills

Ability to read and interpret written or verbal documents and instructions. Ability to speak effectively to patients, employees and / or stakeholders of the organization.

Travel

Must be able to drive between Greater Baden Medical Services, Inc. locations.