Budget Officer

The primary purpose of this position is:

• To provide the Center with a Budget Officer who is responsible for managing all budgetary functions, supervise the Reimbursement Department and monitor receipts, patient funds, and the Cashier Office. 
• Maintains and trace expenditures, monitoring cash management, and approving all requisitions for purchase at Longleaf Neuro-Medical Treatment Center. 
• Responsible for all General Ledger entries, Budget Revisions and monthly accounting reports for local management and DHHS Budget and Control. 
• Approves all salary actions and tracks salary reserve usage for management. 
• Serves on the Management Team for the facility and other committees for the Agency. 
• Files sales tax report, monthly Cafeteria report, Lapsed Salary, Salary Reserve, Utilities Analysis and Billing to the School for the Deaf, and other miscellaneous reports. 
• Reviews and approves all invoices for payment ensuring proper coding. 
• Reviews all contracts for the agency and ensures budget available for contracting. 
• Establishes the Cash Management Matrix to ensure checks and balances of all monetary transactions. This policy is monitored through ongoing processes. 
• Supervises the Reimbursement Officer, Resident Funds Coordinator and Cashier functions to ensure effectiveness and monitor activities to ensure adherence to proper policies and procedures set up by the State. 
• Monitors projected receipts for accuracy to ensure sufficient budget dollars available to operate the facility and avoid Medicaid paybacks. 
• Reviews all financial obligations to the facility to ensure client’s accounts are set up properly for the Central Billing Office to do monthly billing. 
• Keeps abreast of Medicare/Medicaid regulations and policies to ensure financial obligations owed to the facility are collected. 
• Routinely monitors client’s personal funds to ensure proper guidelines are followed. 
• Daily monitors cash deposits and logs of cashier to ensure they are coded corrected and proper procedures are followed according to Cash Management. 
• All wire transfers are edited to ensure accounting accuracy.

Longleaf Neuro-Medical Treatment Center (LNMTC), located in Wilson, NC, is a state-operated certified Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF). With a staff of about 520, LNMTC provides support to approximately 200 residents with complex medical needs and/or co-existing neuro-cognitive disorders. 

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ABOUT NC DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES (DHHS):
 The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) serves the needs of the most vulnerable of North Carolinians and, in order to accomplish this, we hire only the most dedicated and caring individuals. Finding qualified clinical professionals to treat and care for our clients is a continual challenge as demand for services grows and the availability of providers struggles to keep pace. We are seeking a motivated individual who is up for this challenge and is dedicated to our mission of providing North Carolinians with the very best in clinical care.
  
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:
 The state of North Carolina offers excellent comprehensive benefits. Employees can participate in health insurance options, standard and supplemental retirement plans, and the NC Flex program (numerous high-quality, low-cost benefits on a pre-tax basis). Employees also receive paid vacation, sick, and community service leave. In addition, paid parental leave is available to eligible employees. Visit website for State Benefits by clicking on this link: NC OSHR: Benefits

To receive credit for all of your work history and credentials, you must list the information on the application form. Any information listed under the text resume section or on an attachment will not be considered for qualifying credit. Qualified applicants must document on the application that they possess all of the following:

• Considerable demonstrated knowledge of accounting principles within a governmental setting. 
• Effectively operate a computer to process information and generate reports. 
• Compile and analyze budgetary information, budget revisions,
• Considerable working knowledge of the State Accounting system.

Bachelor s degree in accounting, business, finance, or other discipline related to the area of assignment from an appropriately accredited institution and three years of progressive related experience, two years of which should be in a supervisory role, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Positions in the Division of State Operated Healthcare Facilities shall be subject to pre-employment drug testing and criminal record background checks. Also, the use of tobacco products of any kind including vapor products are prohibited from our campuses. All employees are required to adhere to the facility's Vaccination Policy.

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For technical issues with your application, please call the NeoGov Help Line at 855-524-5627. Applicants will be communicated with via email only for updates on the status of their application. If there are any questions about this posting other than your application status, please contact HR at 919-575-1015.

Salary : $58,613 - $102,574