Accounts Payable Clerk

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