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General Accounting Assistant

DCH Health System
Job address Tuscaloosa, AL, US
Company size 1001-5000 employees
Job sector Finance
occupation category Financial Clerks, All Other
Job reference number
2023-6827
Job type Full-time
Work environment
In person

Company Overview

Three hospital health care system. DCH Regional Medical Center is the cornerstone of the DCH system. The 583-bed Regional Medical Center offers a variety of specialty units and advanced services, including cancer, cardiology, robotic and minimally invasive surgery, and the region's advanced trauma center. Northport Medical Center is a 204-bed community hospital that offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient services. The facility also operates important specialty services, including the DCH Rehabilitation Pavilion and North Harbor Pavilion for mental health. Fayette Medical Center, through a lease agreement with the DCH Health System, is a 61-bed rural hospital that offers the residents of Fayette County inpatient care, along with sophisticated diagnostic equipment, surgical techniques and specialty clinics. A 122-bed nursing home on site is fully accredited and licensed for intermediate and skilled nursing care.

Job details

Overview

Under the supervision of the Accounts Payable Supervisor performs a variety of functions to process vendor payments and other related jobs for the DCH Health System.

DCH Standards

  • Maintains performance, patient and employee satisfaction and financial standards as outlined in the performance evaluation.
  • Performs compliance requirements as outlined in the Employee Handbook
  • Must adhere to the DCH Behavioral Standards including creating positive relationships with patients/families, coworkers, colleagues and with self.
  • Requires use of electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software and intranet.
  • Must adhere to all DCH Health System policies and procedures.
  • All other duties as assigned.

Required skills

Preferred skills

  • Accounting, bookkeeping, or fiscal clerical work
  • Knowledge of bookkeeping to include procedures for crediting, debiting, and balancing an account and posting budget as needed to develop and implement a budget, monitor invoices and expenses, and maintain operations within a budget.
  • Knowledge of bookkeeping such as reconciliations, journal entries, journal vouchers, debits, credits, accounts payable, and accounts receivable as needed to check invoices for accuracy, process vouchers, record financial transactions, and make corrections to financial records.

Required Credentials

High School Diploma or GED
Valid Driver's License

Required Experiences

Required Experiences
Experience Title
Clerical/secretarial work experience
Experience Level
2
Recurrence Unit
Year(s)
Current Experience
Off

Sensory requirement

PHYSICAL FACTORS

  • Activities: Talking, hearing, bending, twisting, walking, kneeling, crouching, stooping, balancing, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, repetitive motion, standing, and/or using hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls
    • Requirements: Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
    • Good manual and finger dexterity. 
  • Must be able to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
  • Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range.
  • Physical presence onsite is essential.