Financial Billing Coordinator, Mcmaster Family

**Regular/Temporary**
- Regular

**Job Title**
- Financial Billing Coordinator, McMaster Family Practice (MFP)**Job ID**
- 65961

**Location**
- David Braley Health Sci Centre**Open Date**
- 10/30/2024

**Job Type**
- Continuing

**Close Date**
- 11/12/2024

**Employee Group**
- Unifor Unit 1, Staff

**Favorite Job**

**Department**
- Family Med

**Salary Grade/Band**
- Grade 7

**Salary Range**
- $24.59 - $38.17 (hourly)

**Hours per Week**
- 35

**Posting Details**

**Schedule**

Monday - Friday, 8:30AM - 4:30PM

35 Hours Per Week

Fully In-Office Work Requirement

**Education Level**

Two (2) year Community College diploma in Accounting or a related field of study.

**Career Level**

Five (5) years of relevant experience.

**Job Description Number**

JD1563

The **McMaster Family Practice** (MFP)** is a clinical teaching unit located within the **David Braley Health Sciences Centre** **in downtown Hamilton ON.

Our unit is jointly affiliated with McMaster University’s **Department of Family Medicine** (DFM)** and Hamilton Health Sciences. At our site, over 80 multidisciplinary clinicians provide a full range of direct primary health care to approximately 20,000 patients, as well as to provide training to new family doctors and other health professionals.

Reporting to Department of Family Medicine’s Finance Manager, and liaising closely with the Clinic Director of McMaster Family Practice (MFP), as part of a busy accounting, finance and billing team, the **Financial Billing Coordinator** will provide support for numerous financial transactions for the McMaster Family Practice (MFP), as well as additional financial support to the Department of Family Medicine’s Maternity Centre and the McMaster Downtown Ambulatory Care Centre.

The **Financial Billing Coordinator **shares responsibility for modelling and supporting policies and practices that are aligned with DFM’s commitment to truth and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, to addressing the harms of racism experienced by Black and racialized communities and to creating and sustaining an equitable, diverse and inclusive workplace for all.

**Job Summary**:
**Purpose and Key Functions**:

- Coordinate the collection, verification, analysis and reporting of financial data.
- Coordinate and schedule data flow and financial information required for the preparation and development of detailed financial statements. Including setting up timelines and tracking progress to ensure timely completion
- Interpret and communicate applicable financial policies, procedures and guidelines to others.
- Assist with internal and external audits by preparing audit files and responding to auditor inquiries.
- Develop, plan, and deliver training and information sessions to various members, residents and physicians on billing processes, financial systems and procedures.
- Analyze data and assess for reasonableness.
- Develop budgets for review and approval.
- Implement and maintain budgets. Create financial projections and make adjustments to budgets throughout the fiscal year.
- Reconcile all billing functions within the clinic including third-party and uninsured.
- Ensure clinics’ conformance to billing principles and Ministry guidelines such as the Ministry of Health Schedule of Benefits and Fees
- Review and revise department billing data with accurate information and billing codes using established technical coding and fee schedules to maximize billing revenue.
- Coordinate registration for new signatory and contract physicians and create physician templates within the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. - Exercise appropriate controls, monitor, and reconcile accounts.
- Write a variety of document and reports such as procedure manuals, accounting reports, and financial statements.
- Perform various analyses and reconciliations of accounts.
- Generate reports and account statements and review for accuracy.
- Provide training and guidance to others on relevant accounting procedures and the use of financial systems.
- Calculate, prepare and issue invoices, cheques, account statements and other financial statements according to established procedures.
- Receive, send, sort, verify, process and prepare various documents such as purchase orders, invoices, cheque requisitions, receivables, and payables.
- Process, verify, and balance financial records and business transactions, such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll, including payroll for various contracted physicians
- Scrutinize, analyze, and reconcile detailed financial reports and records for accuracy or discrepancies.
- Develop and recommend solutions to financial challenges, such as budget discrepancies or unexpected financial trends.
- Monitor and reconcile statements and participate in the reconciliation of accounts.
- Prepare and generate a variety of scheduled and ad hoc reports.
- Update, maintain, and verify information in a variety of spreadsheets and databases.
- Balance and con