Accounting Specialist

Job Overview

Accounting Specialist

Cottingham & Butler, was built upon driven, ambitious people like yourself. “Better Every Day” is not just a slogan, it is a promise we make to ourselves and our clients. 

We are currently looking for an Accounting Specialist to join our team. This is a great opportunity for someone that is just starting in his or her career or looking to take it to the next level. 

This position is responsible for requesting Health Plan funding from clients to pay claims, and managing the claim fund from beginning to end. Checking in physical checks, processing them, and posting cash received to the client accounts. Other items of responsibility include researching questions and helping to make sure the bank accounts reconcile. This is considered the “request for funding” position.

There are daily and monthly deadlines that need to be met with this position, so attention to detail, multitasking, and organizational skills are important in this role. Basic knowledge of accounting and Excel experience is also helpful.

About the company

At Cottingham & Butler, we sell a promise to help our clients through life’s toughest moments. To ensure we keep that promise, we hold ourselves to a set of principles that we believe position our clients and our company for long-term success. Our Guiding Principles are not just words on paper, they are a promise we make to ourselves and our clients.

These principles have become a driving force of our culture and share many common themes with the values of our clients. First, we hire and develop amazing people that have an insatiable desire to succeed, are committed to learning, and thrive on challenge. Secondly, we pride ourselves on serving our clients best interest through quality service, innovative solutions, and constantly evaluating our performance. Third, we have embraced and are guided by the theme of “better every day” constantly pushing ourselves to be better than yesterday. Ultimately, we get more energy from the future we are creating for our people, our clients, and our company than from our past success.

As an organization, we are very optimistic about the future and have incredibly high expectations for our people and our performance. We also understand that our growth is fueled by becoming better not bigger – growth funds investments in new resources to better serve our clients and provide the career opportunities our employees want and deserve. This is why we are a growth company and why we are committed to being better every day.