Accountant

Job Title: Accountant

Contract Duration: 6 months, possible extension

Location: Chicago, IL or Richardson, TX

Work Arrangement: Onsite

Pay Range: $43 - $45/hr

Summary

This position is responsible for the end-to-end management, validation, and processing of financial transactions. Responsibilities include reviewing and monitoring invoice activities, ensuring accuracy and compliance with contractual, regulatory, and organizational requirements, and coordinating with internal business partners, vendors, and external stakeholders to resolve invoice discrepancies and payment variances. The role requires performing advanced financial analysis, invoice reconciliation, payment tracking, accrual management, and preparation of journal entries to support accurate financial reporting. Additionally, this position is responsible for maintaining invoice controls and ensuring the timely and accurate resolution of invoicing issues related to financial transactions.

This position is also responsible for balancing and recording complex, multi-million dollar journal entries related to financial transactions across all HCSC divisional states. Support the internal as well as external audit inquiries on a monthly, quarterly & annual basis. Provide support to the automation projects and provide inputs from accounting perspectives for the process improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelors in Accounting or Finance and at least 3 years' accounting experience; OR 6 years of accounting experience.
• Keen analytical skills and very detail-oriented.
• Ability to work independently and multi-task.
• Auditing accounts to ensure they are in balance, cash has been allocated and aging is current.
• Clear, concise written and oral communication with good grammar and word choice.
• Ability to read and interpret financial and membership reports.
• Intermediate to Advanced MS Word and Excel knowledge.
• Monthly preparation of account reconciliations and research of any variances that arise due to reconciling items.