Accounting Assistant

Greater Lawrence Family Health Center

Methuen, Massachusetts

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Accounting, Accounts Payable, Auditing, Billing, Check Processing, Clinical Trial, Customer Support/Service, Data Entry, Expense Reports, Family Medicine, Finance, Funding, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Geriatrics, High School Diploma, Internal Medicine, Nonprofit, Patient Care, Pediatrics, Purchasing/Procurement, Time Management
LOCATION
Methuen, Massachusetts
POSTED
30+ days ago

Established in 1980, the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, Inc. (GLFHC) is a multi-site, mission-driven, non-profit organization employing over 700 staff whose primary focus is providing the highest quality patient care to a culturally diverse population throughout the Merrimack Valley. Nationally recognized as a leader in community medicine (family practice, pediatrics, internal medicine, and geriatrics), GLFHC has clinical sites in Lawrence, Methuen, and Haverhill and is the sponsoring organization for the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency program.

GLFHC is currently seeking an Accounting Assistant. Under the direction of the Accounting Manager, provide support to the Accounts Payable function and the Finance Team of the Health Center in accordance with policies established by the Board of Directors, management, and generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

  • Assist in the processing of expense reports, invoices and check requests in an accurate and timely manner; auditing, ensuring proper approvals, matching packing slips with invoices, proper account distribution, posting to account periods and compliance to all internal controls.
  • Responsible for data entry of invoices, check requests, and expense reports
  • Assist in the weekly check run, preparing and distributing signed checks as indicated on payables.
  • Ensure that all transactions comply with Health Center Purchasing Policies and Procedures.
  • Perform special accounting and finance related projects as assigned.

Qualifications:

  • One year of Accounting experience. Accounts Payable preferably.
  • High School Diploma required. 
  • Intermediate Excel.

 

GLFHC offers a great working environment, comprehensive benefit package, growth opportunities and tuition reimbursement.

 

About the Company

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Greater Lawrence Family Health Center

Greater Lawrence Family Health Center (GLFHC), a Federally Qualified Health Center with clinical sites in located in Lawrence and Methuen, Massachusetts, serves over 60,000 unique patients from Lawrence and the surrounding communities of Methuen, Andover, North Andover and Haverhill. It is the second-largest Federally Qualified Health Center in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Since 1980, GLFHC has been fulfilling its mission “to improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the Merrimack Valley by providing a network of high quality, comprehensive health care services and by training health care professionals who can respond to the needs of a culturally diverse population.”

GLFHC is also home to the nationally-recognized Lawrence Family Medicine Residency (LFMR) program, the first family medicine residency program of its kind in the United States. Solely owned and operated as an academic medical residency by the health center, LFMR has graduated close to 200 primary care physicians. The majority of LFMR graduates have either stayed at the health center or have chosen to stay working in low-income, underserved communities in Massachusetts and across the country. In FY2020, LFMR will be home to 42 residents who participate in one of the only 4-year programs in the country as part of a demonstration project conducted by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services.

COMPANY SIZE
500 to 999 employees
INDUSTRY
Healthcare Services
FOUNDED
1980
WEBSITE
https://glfhc.org/