Accounts Payable/Payroll Assistant

Overview:

For over 125 years, Calvary Hospital and Calvary @Home located in the Bronx, New York has been dedicated to the palliative care of advanced cancer and other terminally ill patients and their families. Through a caring, compassionate, philosophy of non-abandonment, the hospice provides a full spectrum of palliative services, including emotional, spiritual, and physical care. The hospice receives patients from referring institutions throughout New York City and the entire tristate area. When you come to Calvary Hospital, you're not just getting a job, you're joining a family.

Benefits/Perks:

• Includes accrued vacation days, sick days, holidays, and free days.
• Pension (vested after 5 years of full-time or part-time service)
• Participation in 403 (b)
• Voluntary Benefits: Short Term Disability, Life Insurance, Cancer Insurance, Flex Spending, Transit Check.
• Free On-Site Parking

Qualifications:

• Usually requires five to seven years accounts payable and/or payroll experience, of which two to three years should be directly related to the ADP EV5 and or e-time System.
• Experience in a hospital or similar setting desirable but not necessary.  Usually requires six to nine months on-the-job training to become familiar with hospital policies and procedures.
• Numerical ability required to mentally perform rapid and accurate arithmetic computations. 
• Clerical ability required to detect and avoid errors in copying and computing figures. 
• Motor coordination and finger dexterity required to rapidly manipulate adding machine and calculator.
• Due to the confidential nature of information, must be of sound moral character.

Education:

• High School diploma with bookkeeping and other commercial courses required. 
• One or two year’s additional education in accounting at the business college level is desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Under the direction of the Manager of Cash Disbursements, the Accounts Payable/Payroll Assistant is primarily responsible for the processing of all bills incurred by the hospital and the processing of the payroll.
• The accounts payable function implements established control procedures to insure that only duly authorized payments are made, and that disbursements are made on a timely basis, so that cash is conserved and discounts are taken.  The payroll function involves insuring that individual employee time is reported, transmitted and processed accurately for the preparation of payroll checks.  Also responsible for the maintenance of duly authorized employee records and the timely filing of all governmental, welfare and insurance reports.

Job Type: Full-time, Day Shift

Salary: $29.8182/hour

COVID-19 vaccination is strongly encouraged for all new hires prior to beginning employment at Calvary Hospital.