Blue Cross NC Foundation: Financial Accounting & Reporting Analyst

Blue Cross NC is seeking a Financial Accounting & Reporting Analyst for their Foundation. This role involves supporting grantmaking work by ensuring accurate financial reporting, maintaining accounting controls, and collaborating across teams to improve financial processes and operations.

Responsibilities:

• Designs, recommends, implements, maintains and monitors financial accounting and reporting processes, policies and systems
• Ensure financial accounting and reporting controls and maintain a high degree of accuracy. Emphasizes a culture of accountability
• Collaborate with management on the development of the annual budget
• Performs and/or reviews accounting policy research efforts related to Statutory Accounting Principles and presents results to senior finance leadership
• Manage the day-to-day accounting processes including accounts payable, expense reimbursements, and wire transfers ensuring adherence to Foundation policies and in accordance with budget
• Lead vendor management process ensuring collection of appropriate data and tax compliance documents. Manage relationships with vendors, consultants, and grantees to provide insight and ongoing support related to the Foundation’s financial processes and respond to inquiries in a timely manner
• Prepare journal entries and account reconciliations, assist with the monthly close activities, prepare schedules and other general accounting functions
• Manage or perform functions related to accounting and or reporting on a GAAP/FASB basis. Research and or analyze financial/operating data to identify and solution challenges impacting business unit(s), and act as a reference on these challenges for others in accounting
• Initiate projects to improve processes/controls, partner with project teams to ensure resolution of project/post-project issues and participate on cross-functional projects as a finance representative
• Responsible for setup and maintenance of accounting system, chart of account, or other reporting and accounting sub-systems ensuring that all financial transactions are reported accurately and in line with budget
• Performs timely and accurate account and system reconciliations, Monitors resolution of reconciling items on a timely basis
• Contribute to accounting related presentations to team
• Responsible for preparation of GAAP/FASB monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for internal/external audiences including 1099 data and supporting information for tax returns sound fi
• Collaborate with colleagues in grants management and operational excellence to ensure that grants and contracts payments comply with legal agreements
• Assists with internal and external audits; coordinates timely release of appropriate information; responds to audit reports and initiates follow-up activities for action items to ensure compliance
• Maintain and enhance internal controls and perform self-testing

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)
• 8+ years of experience in related field
• In lieu of degree, 10+ years of experience in related field
• Master's Degree in Accounting
• Nonprofit accounting experience, 3+ years
• Proficient technology skills in MS Excel, Accounting G/L, and an innovative approach to solving problems through technology
• Prior experience with Blackbaud, Bill.com, FastFund, and Workiva