Lifelink Hospital is a 24-Hour health service provider with a mission to provide quality, holistic, timely healthcare in a conducive environment. We offer both general and specialist health services in a sparkly, friendly and well-supervised environment with branches in Kyaliwajala Ntinda and
We are looking to hire confident, qualified and agile persons to join our vibrant team: –
POSITION: Accountant
REPORTING TO: Senior Accountant
DUTY STATION: Lifelink Medical Centre
JOB PURPOSE:
To take charge of reporting income, expenditure and productivity of the Organization. Also responsible for summarization of financial information for purposes of financial reporting, tax and financial Audits and responsible for supervision and ensuring productivity of Accounts and Finance Department staff.
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES
- Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting or Commerce from a recognized University and fully qualified Chartered Accountant (CPA/ACCA/CFA) OR fully qualified Chartered Accountant (CPA/ACCA/CFA).
- Minimum of 3 years working experience as an Accountant preferable with a profit-making organization.
- Experience of working with a medical Facility is an added advantage.
- Mature Individual with a proven track record of supervising staff.
- Good knowledge of Excel,
- Experience in application of accounting standards in financial reporting
- Good Leaderships skills & Excellent Negotiation Skills
- Self-motivated, result-oriented, and able to work under minimum supervision
- Able to meet tight deadlines
- Good oral and written communication skills
SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Analyze and report revenues/sales and expenses and ensure they are recorded appropriately.
- Ensure timely invoicing of all services offered to clients
- Maintain the General Ledger and transferring subsidiary ledger accounts to the General Ledger
- Prepare the Trial Balance on a monthly basis and ensuring that all ledgers are reconciled
- Maintain and balance subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions; resolve discrepancies
- Participate in the preparation of the Balance sheet/ Statement of Financial Position, Income statement and supporting schedule
- Facilitate and compiete monthly close procedures like stock taking, Cash count and reconciliations, etc
- Perform Variance analysis and preparing account reconciliation
- Oversee the preparation and review of bank reconciliation
- Participate in annual Financial and Tax Audits
- Enforce and monitor compliance with company-wide accounting policies and procedures
- Cost all services offered by Lifelink and ensure services have profitable margin
- Any other responsibility as maybe assigned by the immediate supervisor.
KEY RESULT INDICATORS
- Accurate Monthly Reports
- Up to date General Ledger
- Accounts staff productivity
- Accurate Financial information archiving system
- Up to date Asset Register
REPORTING
- Weekly revenue and expenditure report
- Monthly extended Trial Balance
- Monthly branch performance report (P&L, Cash flow, and Balance sheet)
- Monthly invoicing summary
- Review and approve all accounts staff reports before submitting to the Finance Manager.
POSITION: Insurance Billing Officer
REPORTING T8: Head of Insurance Billing
DUTY STATION: Lifelink Medical Centre
JOB PURPOSE
Responsible for receiving, identifying, vetting, verifying and taking ail insurance clients through the relevant checks at the point of giving service, ensuring that services offered are within the patient’s limits of cover and bridging all gaps that will otherwise lead to loss of funds by the institution.
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES
Minimum of Diploma in Clinical Medicine, Nursing from a recognized OR Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related courses from a recognized institution/
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience as an Insurance Billing Officer or in a similar role, preferably in a medical facility
. Written and oral communication
Proficiency in MS Office Good interpersonal skills
• Good Customer care skills
Observant and detail oriented
Able to work under pressure
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
VETTING
Ensure patients are covered for services being offered through checking finger prints, card validity and card ownership
- Ensures patients are treated within their limits of cover
- Ensures we do not treat expired/ineligible members.
PRE-AUTH SEEKING
- Seek authorization for procedures, admission, ambulance pickups/drops before the service is provided or given to the patient.
- Have documented authorizations from all insurance partners through emails or hand written letters.
• Attach approvals on claims before submission to the Claims office in Accounts.
CUSTOMER SERVICE/CARE
Responsible for ensuring all insurance patients are well received, are given all the necessary information relating to their treatment, cover and are smoothly taken through the system (hospital) with minimum setbacks.
• Provide good customer care
BILLING/SMARTING/TRACKSOLING
- All claims are to be billed using the different billing systems i.e., Tracksol, Smart, AAR, Sancare etc.
- For all claims billed off system a reimbursement should be sent and the authorizing person indicated.
CHECKING CLAIM FORMS
One has to go through the claim forms and see if they were properly bilied and if they were fully filled and finalized as follows:
Claims date, Employee company /employer, Employee name, Patient phone number, Diagnosis, Key symptoms, Proof of authorizations attached, Services itemized and each billed individually, Claims billed & Signature: Patient & Doctor
PREPARATION OF CLAIM FORMS
• All claim forms must be posted and excelled for proper record keeping and reconciling.
OTHERS RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensure that the insurance Billing work stations are kept clean and tidy.
- Always account for equipment received from the Head of Department.
- Attend all Insurance Billing team meetings as may be communicated by the head/supervisors
- Any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisors.
KEY RESULT AREAS
Accurate billing in HMIS Systems, SMART & claim forms
Ability to meet timelines and deadlines
Claims tracking & accountability
Process compliance
Pre-authorization
Relationship management
HOW TO APPLY:
All interested applicants should send a cover letter, CV and academic documents to the Human Resource Manager on [email protected], only email applications will be accepted.
Please indicate the position being applied for in the subject line of your email.
Application submission deadline: Monday 7th April 2025 at 5:00pm.
NB Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.
