Finance Clerk - Accounts Receivable

Join our financial reporting team as we work together to achieve sustainable, responsive and efficient growth and asset utilization.

At Humber River Hospital, or Finance department plays a pivotal role in developing, implementing, and managing financial, accounting, and reporting policies, processes, and operational activities that meet all Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC) legal, regulatory, requirements.

We are currently seeking a Finance Clerk - Accounts Receivable to join our Finance team.

Are you a Finance Clerk that has experience dealing with receivables? Are you detail orientated with strong data entry skills? If you answered yes to any of the questions above, we invite you to read the details below and apply to this exciting career opportunity and Humber River Hospital.

Hours of work: Must be available to work rotating shifts (days, afternoons, evenings and weekends)

Employee Group: Teamsters

Hourly rat e: $25.817- $26.681

Position Responsibilities

• Update patient demographics and insurance information to ensure accurate billings
• Maintain and release patient valuables, ensuring a safe mechanism for storage and recording of all valuables received according to hospital policy.
• Prints bills, statements and checks for accuracy prior to sending to patients/ clients
• Balance days’ work and post activity to B/AR module daily.
• Issues monthly parking passes, student ID badges, as requested.
• Obtain credit/debit card payments over telephone upon patient request
• Creating and processing of transaction batches in Meditech for charges, receipts, adjustments, refunds
• Perform all accounting functions related to billing, adjustments and collections for all types of hospital related revenues, including OHIP, Insurance, WSIB, Federal government, other province billing, ambulance billing, and other patient and sundry billing on a timely basis
• Practices good safety and housekeeping habits and demonstrates familiarity with disaster, fire, and bomb-threat procedures
• Sort mail and distribute to Finance staff
• Reports promptly any accident or incident to the Manager and co-operates fully in all investigations
• Coverage of other Finance clerk tasks as per operational requirements
• All other duties as assigned
• Work with other team members to coordinate responsibilities, and prioritize tasks, ensuring all important deadlines are met
• Responds to all types of billing and payment inquiries in a calm, patient, and courteous manner. Inquiries may be professional, personal or on the phone for patients, families and insurance companies
• Ensure all client accounts are balanced at month end.
• Provides excellent customer service to patients, families, hospital staff, Doctors’ offices and employers, internal and external stakeholders, using appropriate communication methods to respond in a timely, helpful, and courteous manner
• Posting of selected client, patient, insurance payments, as required
• Answering patient and client inquiries in a calm, patient and courteous manner.
• Verification of insurance coverage, procedure rates from internal departments
• Prepares bank deposits, process remote cheque deposit and post to the B/AR module, daily.
• Maintain coin/cash orders
• Collects payments from all outpatient clinics, emergency, medical imaging locations
• Shares with other clerks the responsibility of return mail
• Cross train team members

Qualifications

• Excellent command of English language—both oral and written
• Data Entry and mathematical aptitude required
• Excellent attendance and discipline free record required
• 2 years’ work experience in Accounting and dealing with customers and billing issues, preferably in
• College Diploma including Accounting course
• Working knowledge of Accounting
• Good knowledge of Meditech with focus on B/AR system required
• Ability to interact successfully with other staff
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to prioritize workload to meet deadlines
• A hospital Meditech environment
• Mathematical aptitude

Why Humber? Why Now? Humber River Hospital is on an exciting transformation journey of redefining patient care as we leverage the most advanced technologies to enhance all aspects of delivering highly reliable safe, quality care. We continue to build a people-centered workplace with excellent staff and physician engagement by hiring passionate, diverse and inclusive healthcare professionals. People who care and live our values of Compassion , Professionalism and Respect . People who are committed to making a positive difference.

We are a Studer Group hospital, focused on evidence-based leadership practices and hardwiring a culture that WOWs.

Why? Because at Humber River Hospital, we know it’s our people and our ability to innovate that allows us to consistently deliver a positive patient experience. At Humber River Hospital we believe in exceptional care...healthier community.

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by the employee within this position. However, the actual responsibilities, duties, qualifications and experience may vary. Employee may perform other related duties as required to meet the ongoing needs of the organization. Information contained in this job posting/description is subject to change.

Humber River Hospital is committed to inclusion and diversity. We believe that diversity drives our culture of innovation. By bringing together a variety of different perspectives, it fuels our creative thinking, generates new ideas and creates solutions designed to address tomorrow's healthcare challenges today. We take pride in providing professional development and career advancement opportunities for our employees including minorities, women, veterans and individuals with physical and developmental disabilities. We also provide accommodation to applicants and all of our employees - from hire to retire.

Let us know what we can do to help you be successful during your recruitment experience at Humber River Hospital.

Please be advised that in order to be eligible for employment at Humber River Hospital, all new hires must have received the full series of a COVID-19 vaccine or combination of COVID-19 vaccines approved by Health Canada (e.g., two doses of a two-dose vaccine series, or one dose of a single-dose vaccine series); AND have received the final dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at least 14 days prior to the hired employee’s first date of employment Medical exemptions or any other kind of requested exemption based upon the Hospital’s obligations pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code will be considered on a case-by-case basis