Finance Clerk

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

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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**.**

**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**
- 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
- Creating and processing of transaction batches in Meditech for charges, receipts, adjustments, refunds
- Answering patient and client inquiries in a calm, patient and courteous manner.
- Update patient demographics and insurance information to ensure accurate billings
- Obtain credit/debit card payments over telephone upon patient request
- Prints bills, statements and checks for accuracy prior to sending to patients/ clients
- Sort mail and distribute to Finance staff
- Coverage of other Finance clerk tasks as per operational requirements
- Cross train team members
- Work with other team members to coordinate responsibilities, and prioritize tasks, ensuring all important deadlines are met
- Shares with other clerks the responsibility of return mail
- 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
- 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
- Reports promptly any accident or incident to the Manager and co-operates fully in all investigations
- Practices good safety and housekeeping habits and demonstrates familiarity with disaster, fire, and bomb-threat procedures
- Prepares bank deposits, process remote cheque deposit and post to the B/AR module, daily.
- Collects payments from all outpatient clinics, emergency, medical imaging locations
- Balance days’ work and post activity to B/AR module daily.
- Posting of selected client, patient, insurance payments, as required
- Ensure all client accounts are balanced at month end.
- Issues monthly parking passes, student ID badges, as requested.
- Verification of insurance coverage, procedure rates from internal departments
- Maintain coin/cash orders
- Maintain and release patient valuables, ensuring a safe mechanism for storage and recording of all valuables received according to hospital policy.
- All other duties as assigned

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

**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**.- 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 a