Accounts Payable Specialist(TI-44365)

CLOSING DATE:     November 2, 2025

POSITION:                Accounts Payable Specialist (2 positions)

SALARY:                   $21.82 to $26.58, per hour DOE

REPORTS TO:         Chief Financial Officer

LOCATION:               Colville Tribal Health Authority, Reservation Wide, WA 

Basic Functions:      This is a Non-Exempt position. The Accounts Payable Specialist for the Colville Tribal Healthcare Authority is responsible for the full-cycle accounts payable process, with a primary focus on processing, verifying, and paying medical claims for services obtained by eligible patients from external healthcare providers. The Accounts Payable Specialist will perform their job duties in a professional manner while assuring that all the needs of the patients are met with a pleasant demeanor.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Training: 

• Requires a High School Diploma or GED.
• Requires 3 (three) years of clerical accounting maintenance, bookkeeping, or closely related work experience. Combination of education and work experience that demonstrates the ability to fulfill the functions of the position may be substituted.
• HIPAA Certificate within initial 90 days of employment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Requires ability to understand, speak, communicate and read the English language.
• Requires knowledge of accounting principles, methods, practices and terminology.
• Requires strong attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy.
• Requires excellent organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage a high volume of transactions.
• Requires ability to utilize a multi-line telephone with good telephone etiquette.
• Requires proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).
• Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and maintain confidentiality.
• Requires well-developed human relation skills to convey technical concepts to others.
• Ability to communicate technical information and to interact with a wide variety of groups and individuals inside and outside the organization.
• Ability to plan, organize, and prioritize work processes in a high-volume environment in order to meet schedules and timelines.
• Ability to analyze data from multiple information ports by comparing and contrasting data to draw a conclusion or to identify trends.
• Ability to communicate professionally in written, verbal, and non-verbal format while portraying a friendly tone, word choice, and body language.
• Ability to take initiative and be proactive in the duties of the position in order to meet mandated deadlines and to comply with goals and objectives.

Note: Pursuant to Tribal Policy, if this position is safety sensitive it is subject to pre-employment drug testing. In addition, this position is subject to reasonable suspicion and post-accident drug testing.

TRIBAL MEMBER AND INDIAN PREFERENCE WILL APPLY; PREFERENCE WILL ALSO BE GIVEN TO HONORABLY DISCHARGED VETERANS WHO ARE MINIMALLY QUALIFIED.