Budget and Cost Accounting Analyst

Job Summary

The Budgeting & Cost Accounting Analyst assists Finance leadership with yearly multi-corporation's operating budgets and is responsible for the maintenance of User Access and Account Relationship dictionaries. This positions maintains a working knowledge of Medicare regulations, collects and prepares financial and statistical support documentation, and assists the leadership in submission of the Medicare Cost Report. The analyst prepares and distributes the monthly statistical report and assists with special projects and functions.
Essential Job Functions

• Develops and maintains statistics used to allocate overhead costs to revenue producing departments using multiple step-down allocations. Annually evaluates and updates statistics.

• Develops, maintains and controls the cost accounting activities and services for Altru Health System. Serves as a resource for the development and fine-tuning of the cost accounting process. Performs all aspects of costing including the development and maintenance of costing statistics, calculations of costing data and financial analysis and reporting.

• Responsible for the verification and maintenance of all additions, deletions and updates to user access and the account relationship dictionary, for Altru Health System and affiliates, for the budgeting, cost accounting and management reporting system.

• Maintains and distributes the departmental and productivity reports. Provides support and analysis to managers for departmental and productivity reports. Advise managers on statistics information and maintains and distributes statistical reports.

• Collects and prepares financial and statistical documentation, working papers and questionnaires required for the Medicare Cost Report. Maintains a working knowledge of Medicare regulations and participates with the submission of the Medicare Cost Report.

• Responsible for the maintenance and refinement of the procedures/charge-level costs in the cost accounting system. Includes data collection and disseminates costing results to end users.

• Initiates various import downloads and audits, imports and troubleshoots subsidiary systems.

• Performs other duties as assigned or needed to meet the needs of the department/organization.

• Demonstrates understanding and follows infection control policies and procedures according to standard operating procedure.
• Maintains requirements for age specific competencies for the position and demonstrates the knowledge or principles of growth and developments and the skills necessary to provide patient/customer care/services.
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of and compliance with:
  • All pertinent safety, health and environmental policies, procedures and guidelines.
  • Working safely, without causing harm or risk to self, others or property.
  • The work environment safety procedures and prompt reporting of unsafe practices, procedures, accidents, injuries or other safety violations to the Leader.
  • The use of all safety equipment and personal protective equipment.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's

Accounting

Required

Experience

A minimum of 3 years of related experience required

Knowledge & Skills
Demonstrates the ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in written format required.

Physical Demands
Frequency 8 Hour Shift 10 Hour Shift 12 Hour Shift Rarely (1-4%) 1-19 min 1-24 min 1-29 min Occasionally (5-33%) 19 min-2.6 hrs 24 min-3.3 hrs 29 min-3.9 hrs Frequently (34-66%) 2.6-5.3 hrs 3.3-6.6 hrs 3.9-7.9 hrs Continuously (67-100%) 5.3-8 hrs 6.6-10 hrs 7.9-12 hrs

Activity

Frequency

Sit

Frequently (34-66%)

Stand

Occasionally (5-33%)

Walk

Occasionally (5-33%)

Stoop/Bend

Occasionally (5-33%)

Reach

Frequently (34-66%)

Climb

Not Applicable

Crawl

Not Applicable

Squat/Crouch/Kneel

Rarely (
Twist

Occasionally (5-33%)

Handle/Finger/Feel

Continuously (>67%)

See

Continuously (>67%)

Hear

Continuously (>67%)
Weight Demands
Activity

Amount

Lift - Floor to Waist Level

Sedentary (
Carry

Sedentary (
Push/Pull

Sedentary (
Slide/Transfer

Not Applicable
Working Conditions
Condition

Frequency

Indoor

Continuously (>67%)

Outdoor

Not Applicable

Extreme Temperature

Not Applicable
Employee Health
Functional Assessment

Hazardous Drug Exposure

Fit Testing Required

Not Applicable

No

No