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TITLE: | Finance Intern | OVERVIEW: Providing compassion and care isn’t just our profession at PHRI, it’s our passion…and culture. We care for the clients that we serve. We listen to them and provide the support that they need to enable them to live comfortable and fulfilling lives. Our drive is to restore hope and healing to the community. We are looking for mission driven professionals who want to join a transformational company with a big heart and make a difference in the community. Currently serving over 1,500 patients in two different states and looking to grow to over 10,000 patients in 5 states, over the next 3-5 years. Its focus is advocating and implementing integrated care model approach to underserved population undergoing behavioral health related issues. |
REPORTS TO: | Revenue Cycle Manager | |
CLASSIFICATION: | W2 | |
DATE APPROVED: | 05/2026 | |
LOCATION: | MD | |
FTE | Yes | |
ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL DEMANDS Standard Office / Sit, stand, walk, lift 15 lbs | ||
JOB DESCRIPTION
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Finance Intern will assist the finance team in strengthening financial controls, improving data accuracy, and supporting operational efficiency. The intern will work closely with the RCM Manager and finance leadership to review payment records, reconcile batches, evaluate current processes, and perform a detailed payroll/provider payment analysis.
The goal of this internship is to provide hands-on finance, reconciliation, and data review experience while helping the organization identify discrepancies, improve documentation, and ensure timely and accurate payments to providers, vendors, contractors, or employees.
Core Responsibilities
- Payment and Batch Reconciliation
Objective:
Review payment records and batch activity to ensure payments processed through finance, billing, payroll, or payment systems are complete, accurate, properly documented, and reconciled to the appropriate source data.
Key Activities:
The intern will review payment batches, transaction reports, bank/payment processor records, internal schedules, billing reports, payroll files, and supporting documentation to confirm that payment amounts align across systems.
Specific Tasks May Include:
- Review payment batches for completeness and accuracy.
- Match batch totals to source reports, bank activity, payment processor files, billing records, or accounting system reports.
- Verify that payment dates, payees, amounts, batch IDs, and transaction details are consistent across reports.
- Identify missing, duplicate, reversed, rejected, delayed, or incorrectly posted payments.
- Compare approved payments to processed payments and recorded payments.
- Maintain a reconciliation tracker showing matched items, exceptions, and unresolved items.
- Document discrepancies and prepare items for review with the RCM Manager.
- Support cleanup of payment records where data is incomplete, inconsistent, or outdated.
Expected Deliverables:
- Payment and batch reconciliation tracker.
- Summary of matched and unmatched items.
- List of exceptions or discrepancies.
- Status report of unresolved reconciliation items.
- Recommendations for improving the payment reconciliation process.
- Process Review and Improvement
Objective:
Review current finance and revenue cycle processes to identify opportunities for improved accuracy, efficiency, documentation, and internal controls.
Key Activities:
The intern will observe and document current workflows related to payments, reconciliations, payroll/provider compensation, data intake, approvals, reporting, and follow-up. The intern will help identify areas where processes can be better standardized or streamlined.
Specific Tasks May Include:
- Document current finance and revenue cycle processes from start to finish.
- Create simple workflow summaries, process maps, or step-by-step documentation.
- Identify manual, duplicative, unclear, or inefficient steps.
- Review current trackers, reconciliation files, templates, and reports.
- Identify gaps in documentation, approvals, handoffs, file storage, or version control.
- Recommend ways to standardize recurring finance tasks.
- Assist with creating or updating standard operating procedures.
- Help develop checklists for recurring activities such as reconciliations, payment reviews, payroll validation, and data audits.
- Present process improvement observations during daily check-ins with the RCM Manager.
Expected Deliverables:
- Current-state process documentation.
- List of process gaps, risks, or inefficiencies.
- Recommended process improvements.
- Draft SOPs, checklists, or workflow templates as needed.
- Summary of quick wins and longer-term improvement opportunities.
- Payroll / Provider Payment Deep Dive
Objective:
Conduct a detailed review of payroll and/or provider payment data to determine who was paid, how much they were paid, what time period the payments covered, and whether Prestige Healthcare Resources Inc. owes any outstanding amounts to providers.
Key Activities:
The intern will analyze payroll/provider payment records against source documentation, schedules, contracts, timesheets, service records, payroll files, approved payment files, or other supporting records. The purpose is to confirm payment accuracy and identify any unpaid, underpaid, overpaid, delayed, or duplicate payments.
Specific Tasks May Include:
- Compile a detailed list of providers, employees, or contractors included in the review.
- Review payment history by provider, pay period, payment date, and amount.
- Compare actual payments to expected payments based on approved records, agreements, invoices, service logs, schedules, or payroll data.
- Identify providers who may not have been paid or may have been paid incorrectly.
- Determine whether any providers are owed additional amounts.
- Flag potential overpayments, duplicate payments, or payments requiring further explanation.
- Review payment timing to identify late or delayed payments.
- Create a provider-level summary showing total paid, expected amount, variance, and status.
- Escalate material discrepancies to the RCM Manager for review before any corrective action is taken.
- Provide daily updates on progress, findings, and open questions during check-ins.
Expected Deliverables:
- Payroll/provider payment analysis file.
- Provider-level payment summary.
- Expected vs. actual payment variance report.
- List of providers who may be owed additional payment.
- List of potential overpayments, duplicate payments, or payment concerns.
- Summary of items requiring management review or approval.
- Final summary of findings and recommended next steps.
Miscellaneous Data Review and Ad Hoc Finance Support
In addition to the three primary workstreams, the intern may support other finance, billing, revenue cycle, payroll, or data review projects as needed.
Potential Tasks May Include:
- Cleaning and organizing finance data.
- Reviewing spreadsheets for missing, duplicate, or inconsistent information.
- Creating pivot tables, summaries, reconciliations, or basic dashboards.
- Supporting monthly close or reporting preparation.
- Reviewing provider, vendor, employee, or contractor records for accuracy.
- Assisting with audit support or document gathering.
- Updating trackers and maintaining project status logs.
- Validating data across multiple systems or reports.
- Preparing summaries for the RCM Manager and finance leadership.
- Supporting special projects related to payments, payroll, accounts payable, revenue cycle, reporting, or operational finance.
- Assisting with additional data, review projects that arise during the internship period.
Supervision and Communication Expectations
- The intern will work under the guidance of the RCM Manager and finance leadership. Daily check-ins will be used to review completed work, clarify priorities, discuss discrepancies, and determine next steps.
Daily Check-Ins May Include:
- Review of work completed the prior day.
- Discussion of current assignments and priorities.
- Review of discrepancies or exceptions identified.
- Questions related to source data, systems, or documentation.
- Confirmation of next steps and deadlines.
- Escalation of issues requiring management review.
Desired Skills and Qualifications
- The intern should be detail-oriented, organized, comfortable working with spreadsheets, and able to handle confidential information responsibly.
Helpful Skills Include:
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills.
- Ability to compare and reconcile large data sets.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Basic understanding of finance, accounting, payroll, billing, or revenue cycle operations.
- Strong organization and documentation skills.
- Ability to identify discrepancies and ask thoughtful follow-up questions.
- Comfort working with sensitive and confidential data.
- Ability to summarize findings clearly for management review.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
This is largely a sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets, and bend or stand as necessary.
POSITION TYPE AND EXPECTED HOURS OF WORK
This is a Full Time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.
OTHER DUTIES
- Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
AAP/EEO STATEMENT:
It is the policy of Prestige Healthcare Resources, Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Prestige Healthcare Resources, Inc. will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.
Success Measures
The internship will be successful if the intern helps the finance team improve visibility into payment accuracy, identify unresolved payment issues, and create stronger documentation for ongoing finance and revenue cycle processes.
Success Measures May Include:
- Payment batches are reconciled and exceptions are clearly documented.
- Payroll/provider payment review identifies any unpaid, underpaid, overpaid, duplicate, or delayed payment issues.
- Finance leadership has a clear summary of who was paid, what was paid, and whether anything remains outstanding.
- Current processes are documented and improvement opportunities are identified.
- Reconciliation files, trackers, and reports are cleaner, more organized, and easier to maintain.
- Daily check-ins with the RCM Manager result in consistent progress and timely issue resolution.
- Final findings are presented in a clear, actionable format for the RCM Manager and finance leadership.
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