Staff Accountant

Company: Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services
Location: Union
Posted on: January 14, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Job Description Make a Difference at Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services! Bridgeway offers uniquely rewarding experience in a supportive Team atmosphere. We invest in our employees. We offer excellent salary and benefits packages, and opportunities to advance your career. Become part of the Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services Team! Make a Future at Bridgeway! Who we are: Bridgeway values and promotes quality clinical and administrative practices to foster the best outcomes for persons who come to us for behavioral healthcare. We offer a work environment that supports teamwork, creativity, innovation, professional growth and dedication to the work. At Bridgeway, we never stop growing and innovating our vision of behavioral healthcare for the future. Why you should apply: As a Staff Accountant, you will join an evidence-based program and a dynamic team for the opportunity to learn and refine your clinical and engagement skills and accomplish your dream of helping people to make progress on their unique recovery journeys. The work is sometimes challenging and always rewarding by engaging with persons we serve and co-workers as we all learn, grow, and thrive. Department: Finance-Administration Salary: $55,000- $58,000 Location: Union, NJ Work hours: Monday-Friday (TEMP TO PERM) Full time- 40 hours’ weekly POSITION OVERVIEW: Under the direction of the Accounting Manager, ensures the accuracy of financial transactions provides supervision of the finance department and compliance with agency policy and generally accepted accounting principles. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS • Create and maintain a wellness and recovery-oriented environment by using respectful, person-first language, documentation, and interactions. • Provide the highest quality customer service to all employees and customers as follows: be friendly, responding promptly, know your service, listen to and get to know our staff and customers, be open to asking, receiving and using feedback, create positive work relationships, always follow up with assignments and be curious. • Maintain a culture of compliance with internal and external policies, regulations, laws and high ethical standards Fiscal Oversight: • Assures that all assigned transactions are recorded monthly and that all adjustments are entered in the proper month, including payroll, accounts receivable, expenses and revenue entries. • Analyze and track costs for assigned vendors and ensure that expenses are properly accrued at the end of the month. • Maintains detailed work papers to support journal entries and grant accounting as documentation for audits. • Question any credit card or employee reimbursement request for which the business purpose is unclear and notify Controller of any purchase appearing to be questionable. • Ensures accuracy and completeness of financial records by reconciling general ledger and other financial data. • Delivers with accuracy, completeness, and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for non-profit entities and in accordance with the organization’s mission, vision and values. Fiscal Transactions: • Invoice Processing: Reviewing, verifying and processing invoices for accuracy and compliance with company policies. • Accounts Payable/Receivable: Processing payments, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring timely payment of invoices. • Employee Expense: handles the accounting for expenses incurred by employees for business purposes, ensuring accurate tracking, proper documentation, and compliance with Bridgeway policies. • Credit Card: Manages, reconciles and posts credit card transactions, ensuring compliance with Bridgeway policies and accurate accounting of business expenses. • Provides support to programs around cardholder responsibilities and best practice for credit card reporting. • Prepare report on expenditures and billing for assigned grants. • Works with the Controller to ensure that the Financial Reporting requirements are met for all Grants. Annual Audit Responsibilities: • Maintains detailed grant and general ledger reconciliation worksheets for assigned grants including a schedule of receivables as documentation for audits. • Reconciles GL and maintains audits worksheet for assigned accounts. • Miscellaneous projects as required. Development of Fiscal Systems: • Assist CFO and Controller on fiscal policy, workflow and technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of fiscal operations. • Monitors Sage Intaact and Concur software developments, attends product trainings and user groups, and refers improvements for consideration. • Recommend process improvement toward an increasingly electronic office. • Focuses on reduction in paper use and REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting is required Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Accounting is required Valid driver’s license required EXCELLENT BENEFITS: Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 403b, basic life and AD&D, flexible spending accounts, EAP Eligible for medical benefits after 30 days of employment Flexible work schedules, clinical training series, leadership development program 10 paid holidays (an 11th after 2 years of employment), generous vacation and sick time Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services is committed to inclusive hiring and dedicated to diversity in our work and workplace culture. We provide equal opportunity for employees and applicants in all aspects of the employment relationship, without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, age, religion, or any other classification protected by law; and we strongly encourage candidates of all identities, experiences, orientations, and communities to apply.

Keywords: Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services, Philadelphia , Staff Accountant, Accounting, Auditing , Union, Pennsylvania