Scholarship Billing Specialist

ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:

Think Small, Minnesota’s leader in early learning, is dedicated to advancing early childhood care and education. We are still committed to the principles that gave rise to our organization 45 years ago - that the quality of a child's early experiences greatly influences his or her success later in life and that there is much that can be done to improve the quality of early childhood settings to optimize a child's development.

The position ensures early childhood program eligibility, processes and approves claim forms, clarifies billing issues, and supports scholarship team and programs in monitoring activity.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Process scholarship claims forms for payments
• Prepare, review and send claim form to early childhood program
• Provide business administration services to early childhood programs (billing, reporting, etc.)
• Monitor early childhood program compliance with program policies, rules and procedures
• Maintain database and files of participating early childhood programs
• Communicate with providers to resolve documentation issues
• Research claim form discrepancies
• Review adjustments or corrections to payments
• Communicate with, respond to inquiries from families, early childhood programs, and the general public regarding Early Childhood Scholarships
• Communicate with scholarship team and provider regarding child activity
• Educate early childhood programs on the qualifications and process necessary to serve scholarship children

REQUIREMENTS:

• Associate’s degree in business, accounting or related field preferred
• 4 years’ experience in equivalent position with HS diploma or GED acceptable
• Must have 1 year of heavy/high volume billing experience
• Good aptitude with numbers and strong attention to detail.
• Solid demonstrated customer service skills.
• Good communication, organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a group environment.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access).
• Working know of MS Access a plus.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

This position is available immediately.

Think Small offers a minimum of $18.00 per hour for this position and a unique benefit package which includes:

• Medical, dental, short and long term disability, life, vision, pet, disability, critical illness and long term care insurance; medical and dependent care flex, HSA, legal and ID protection plans.
• Pre-tax and ROTH 401k with employer match.
• 23 days of sick/vacation time earned the first year PLUS 9 scheduled holidays and 4 floating holidays for those whose needs don’t conform to the federal holiday calendar.
• We recently introduced 2 new-parent benefits – 6 weeks paid parental leave and infants-at-work program (available after 1 year of employment.)

Think Small buildings (located at 10 Yorkton Court St. Paul, MN 55117 and 3433 Broadway St NE Ste# 460 Minneapolis, MN 55413) is closed and the majority of our staff are working remotely. Based on department needs, some positions work a hybrid schedule.

Think Small is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer.