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Senior Accountant

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting
  • 3+ years of accounting, financial reporting, or reconciliation experience
  • Experience with accounting principles, financial controls, and reconciliation processes
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and proficiency with accounting systems

Responsibilities

  • Perform monthly cash reconciliations, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and resolution of reconciling items
  • Reconcile high-volume cash activity, including Accounts Payable disbursements and premium billing
  • Partner with teams to research discrepancies and improve cash-related processes
  • Prepare reconciliation documentation and support internal and external audit requests

About the company

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Humana

Health Insurance (Payers)

At Humana, our cultural foundation is aligned to helping members achieve their best health by delivering personalized, simplified, whole-person healthcare experiences. Recognizing healthcare needs continue to evolve for each person, for each family and for each community, Humana continuously creates innovative solutions and resources that help people live their healthiest lives on their terms –when and where they need it. Our employees are at the heart of making this happen and that’s why we are dedicated to building an organization of dynamic talent whose experience and passion center on putting the customer first.

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryHealth Insurance (Payers)
Company size10001

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The Senior Accountant, General Accounting – Cash Reconciliations & Cash Operations is responsible for performing and supporting enterprise cash reconciliation processes. Additionally, this role contributes to initiatives impacting cash activities across various key functions, including Accounts Payable (AP), premium receipts, claims disbursements, and others. You will ensure accurate,, and controlled reconciliation of cash-related accounts while partnering with partners to improve processes and strengthen financial controls.
Reporting to the Associate Director of General Accounting, you will help maintain balance sheet integrity, resolving reconciliation issues, supporting audits, and identifying opportunities for process improvement and automation.

Main Responsibilities

  • Help with projects improving cash operations, including system enhancements, implementations, integrations, and policy updates.
  • Perform monthly cash reconciliations, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and resolution of reconciling items following company procedures.
  • Reconcile high-volume cash activity, including:
    • Accounts Payable disbursements
    • Premium billing and cash receipts
    • Claims payments and related clearing accounts
  • Prepare and maintain balance sheet reconciliations, investigating and resolving outstanding items promptly.
  • Monitor aged reconciling items and escalate issues to management.
  • Partner with teams, including AP, Billing, Claims, Treasury, and IT, to research discrepancies and improve cash-related processes.
  • Support process improvement projects focused on automation, standardization, and enhanced reporting dashboards.
  • Ensure compliance with internal controls, Model Audit Rule (MAR) requirements, and audit readiness expectations.
  • Prepare reconciliation documentation and support internal and external audit requests.
  • Develop and maintain reports and dashboards that provide visibility into reconciliation status, exceptions, and important cash metrics.
  • Contribute to month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities related to cash and balance sheet accounts.


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Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
  • 3+ years of accounting, financial reporting, or reconciliation experience.
  • Experience with accounting principles, financial controls, and reconciliation processes.
  • Experience supporting process improvement and automation projects..
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and proficiency with accounting systems.

Preferred Qualifications

  • CPA, CPA candidate, or equivalent professional certification.
  • Experience preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations.
  • Experience in healthcare, insurance, or managed care environments.
  • Knowledge of premium billing, claims payment cycles, treasury operations, or cash management processes.
  • Experience with reconciliation tools such as BlackLine.
  • Experience with data reporting tools, including Power BI.

Additional Information

Workstyle: Remote Nationwide

Interview Format:

As part of our hiring process for this opportunity, we will use an interviewing technology called HireVue to enhance our hiring. HireVue allows us to quickly connect and gain valuable information from you about your relevant experience at a time that is best for your schedule.

Work at Home Requirements: To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

 

Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

 

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.


 

$78,400 - $107,800 per year


 

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Application Deadline: 07-23-2026


About us
 

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.


Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.

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