Health New England (HNE) is seeking a Senior Accounting & Quality Analyst to play a key role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and reliability of our financial information. This unique position combines accounting, financial analysis, quality assurance, internal controls, and process improvement, giving you the opportunity to not only prepare financial information but also evaluate how it is produced and identify ways to make our processes more efficient, accurate, and well controlled.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Senior Accounting & Quality Analyst will work closely with Accounting and Finance leadership and teams across the organization, using your expertise to identify trends, uncover issues, perform root-cause analysis, and recommend meaningful improvements. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys solving problems, working with data, and making a tangible impact on financial operations.
Key Responsibilities Include:
Accounting Quality & Analytical Review
- Analyze select journal entries across the accounting function for accuracy, account coding, supporting documentation, and GAAP/STAT compliance.
- Use data analysis techniques to identify anomalies, outliers, duplicate entries, and other irregularities.
- Review general ledger reconciliations for quality, completeness, timeliness, and appropriate resolution of outstanding items.
- Develop and monitor close-quality metrics and KPIs, including error rates, reconciliation completion, aged reconciling items, and late or adjusting entries.
- Build dashboards and summaries to communicate results and trends to management.
- Perform root-cause analysis on recurring errors and data-quality issues and recommend process, documentation, and control improvements.
- Evaluate accounting processes and procedures to identify opportunities for greater efficiency, consistency, standardization, and control.
- Support implementation of process improvements and internal control initiatives.
- Support internal control over financial reporting, including Model Audit Rule (MAR) documentation and testing.
- Provide analysis and quality evidence supporting GAAP and STAT audits.
- Communicate findings and recommendations to accounting staff and management in an advisory capacity.
Account Reconciliation & Variance Analysis
- Prepare and review general ledger account reconciliations, investigating, documenting, and resolving reconciling items.
- Analyze actual results against budget and prior periods and provide clear explanations of variances.
- Support reconciliation and variance analysis across medical and non-medical accounts.
- Maintain the accuracy of Line of Business tabs within FINSTATNEW financial reports.
- Reconcile and analyze month-end closing package spreadsheets to ensure financial information is current and accurate.
Journal Entries & Month-End Close
- Prepare journal entries for financial transactions from a variety of sources, including claims, medical, and non-medical activity.
- Prepare journal entries for pharmacy and non-medical expenses.
- Prepare monthly accruals for medical, non-medical, and administrative expenses incurred but not yet invoiced.
- Contribute to an accurate and timely month-end close process.
Financial Statement Preparation & Analysis
- Prepare monthly Statement of Expense Reports for cost center managers, including actual-to-budget analysis.
- Partner with Finance to prepare Monthly Health Service Funds (HSFs) and related analysis.
- Maintain and analyze provider risk contracts to ensure accurate accounting for surplus/deficit corridors and withhold agreements across Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid lines of business.
- Support statutory and tax reporting through preparation of required documentation and reports.
Audit, Compliance & Special Projects
- Support GAAP and STAT year-end and interim audits and Compliance Monitoring activities.
- Prepare check requests and other documentation supporting various HNE expenses and provider contract payments.
- Participate in special projects and process improvement initiatives that strengthen financial operations and internal controls.
SCHEDULE:
- Full-time
- Monday through Friday
- No weekends, no holidays
LOCATION:
- 1 Monarch Place
- Springfield, MA
- Hybrid work opportunity – 3 days a week on-site required – candidate must live in MA or CT
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field and more than three years of related financial experience, preferably within an HMO, insurance, or healthcare environment; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- In-depth understanding of GAAP accounting principles and conventions.
- Intermediate to advanced Excel skills, including experience building and maintaining reporting tools, models, pivot tables, and dashboards.
- Experience with accounting and PC-based systems; familiarity with FAS 2000, SAGE100, and Amisys Advance is preferred.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to evaluate the quality, accuracy, and integrity of financial data, journal entries, reconciliations, and accounting records.
- Experience using data analysis to identify anomalies, exceptions, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
- Ability to develop and monitor quality metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and other reporting tools.
- Knowledge of internal controls over financial reporting; familiarity with the NAIC Model Audit Rule (MAR) or similar control and audit frameworks is preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate financial findings into clear recommendations for both financial and non-financial audiences.
- Strong attention to detail, organization, and analytical problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and work effectively both independently and collaboratively across departments.
Education:
Bachelors Degree (Required)
Certifications:
Compensation
Note: The compensation range(s) in the table below represent the base salaries for all positions at a given grade across the health system. Typically, a new hire can expect a starting salary somewhere in the lower part of the range. Actual salaries may vary by position and will be determined based on the candidate's relevant experience. No employee will be paid below the minimum of the range. Pay ranges are listed as hourly for non-exempt employees and based on assumed full time commitment for exempt employees.
Minimum – Midpoint – Maximum
$77,064.00 – $88,587.00 – $104,748.00
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Baystate Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status.
