A mission-driven healthcare organization dedicated to improving community health through accessible, high-quality care, is seeking an Accounting Support Specialist to join their Finance team in the Detroit, Michigan area.
This is an excellent opportunity for an accounting professional who enjoys variety, thrives in a collaborative environment, and wants to make a meaningful impact beyond the numbers. You'll support key financial operations while working alongside an experienced leadership team in a stable, growing healthcare organization.
What You'll Do as the Accounting Support Specialist:
- Process accounts payable transactions, including invoice matching, payment processing, and vendor reconciliations
- Support accounts receivable activities and maintain accurate financial records
- Assist with payroll processing and payroll-related reconciliations
- Maintain accurate accounting records in accordance with GAAP
- Support banking, treasury, and cash management activities
- Assist with financial reporting, account analysis, and month-end activities
- Coordinate documentation for audits and regulatory reporting
- Monitor financial task deadlines and assist leadership with timely completion of recurring accounting activities
- Prepare financial reports, spreadsheets, and supporting documentation
- Collaborate with internal departments, vendors, lenders, and external partners
- Support budget preparation and other finance-related projects
- Maintain strict confidentiality while ensuring compliance with financial policies and HIPAA requirements
Must-Haves as the Accounting Support Specialist:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field
- 3+ years of accounting or finance experience
- At least 2 years of experience supporting accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll
- Strong understanding of GAAP accounting principles
- Experience working within accounting or ERP software systems
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office
- Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
- Strong written and verbal communication abilities
- Ability to prioritize multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Professional, collaborative, and customer-service-oriented mindset
Nice-to-Haves as the Accounting Support Specialist:
- Experience working in healthcare or a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
- Experience supporting audits and regulatory reporting
- Familiarity with budgeting and financial analysis
- Experience working in highly regulated environments
The Company Offers:
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits
- Retirement savings program
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Stable, mission-driven organization serving the local community
- Collaborative and supportive leadership team
- Opportunities for continued professional growth and development
- The opportunity to make a meaningful impact through healthcare
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field
- 3+ years of accounting or finance experience
- At least 2 years supporting accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll
- Strong understanding of GAAP accounting principles
- Experience working within accounting or ERP software systems
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office
- Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
- Strong written and verbal communication abilities
- Ability to prioritize multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Professional, collaborative, and customer-service-oriented mindset
- Maintain strict confidentiality and comply with HIPAA requirements
- Experience working in healthcare or a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
- Experience supporting audits and regulatory reporting
- Familiarity with budgeting and financial analysis
- Experience working in highly regulated environments
What We Do
Who are we? As an independent, full-service marketing and consulting business based in Portland, Maine, we provide strategy, content and design for businesses, nonprofits and individuals in Maine and throughout the world. What do we do? Everything we do revolves around ROI—improving your bottom line. Through a rock-solid communication and branding strategy, we show you how to support and engage your employees, build your workforce, find new clients and support existing business. Here’s a snapshot of our services: Strategy: Branding and rebranding; mission statement; search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine results page (SERP); hiring and retention; fundraising; communicating with board members; personal branding (for executives); events and PR; advertising campaigns; product launches; social media campaigns and management. Design: Websites; logos; promotional material (digital and print); event guides; employee photos; drone video footage; custom magazines; advertisements. Content: Website text; speeches and keynotes; promotional text; employee bios; custom articles; social media posts; newsletters and internal emails; corporate reports. Custom Publishing: Vanguard, Equity, Toggle, Blueprint, Vision, Terra Firma What’s our mission? We want to help you solve real challenges—like growing your business, hiring and retaining employees, fundraising and keeping existing business. Our mission is to do this with honesty and integrity. Authenticity—it’s a good look on you. Why do we do this? We want to reimagine marketing. We want it to be less about the perfect image, and more about using good communication and branding as a way to engage with your employees and clients in successful and lasting relationships. Ultimately, we believe this approach will create a world where people come before profit, where the environment is respected and given back to, and where good business is synonymous with the best intentions.
