Senior Financial Planning Analyst

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance or Healthcare field, required. Master's degree preferred.

Minimum five years of healthcare clinical financial analyst experience with an emphasis in financial planning, budgeting, labor productivity, benchmarking and analysis, required.

Strong financial planning skills including data collection, financial analysis, and experience preparing and presenting management-level presentations.

Knowledge of hospital, practitioner, and non-hospital care services and the key performance indicators that drive their businesses.

Understanding of Financial Planning application architectures (knowledge of Infor, Kronos, Vizient ODB and/or MGMA benchmarking applications desired).

Demonstrated skills in strategic planning, forecasting, and operational and capital budgeting, preferably in the healthcare industry.

Proficient in Kronos, Epic, Infor (Desired), Microsoft Office products, especially Excel, Tableau, or similar analytics software.

Proficient in budgeting, labor analytics, productivity, and statistical theories.

Skilled in concepts around practitioner compensation, including productivity and financial forecasting.

Strong analytical skills to independently review data and troubleshoot to ensure data integrity.

Ability to design complex financial analysis using financial and patient data and industry benchmarks.

Familiarity with project development and demonstrated ability to lead solution-focused problem-solving efforts.

Advanced understanding of clinical terms; understanding of service lines within a hospital environment.

Demonstrated ability to be self-directed, learn quickly with a strong attention to detail.

Ability to set priorities, produce accurate work, and meet deadlines; ability to function independently in a setting with a wide variety of duties.

Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and build effective relationships with members of senior leadership, departmental managers, and other non-financial personnel.

Understands organizational dynamics and ability to lead others toward goal achievements.

Generic Job Functions: See Generic Job Description for Administrative Partner.

Essential Responsibilities and Competencies:

Responsible for managing and completing the annual operating budget for a large segment of the medical center's operations.

In collaboration with the Director, apply critical thinking to forecast key financial performance indicators to be incorporated into the rolling forecast for the medical center.

Work closely with Valley leadership to analyze monthly and annual financial performance against budget. And provide strategic guidance that assists leaders in making financial decisions.

Using key benchmarking levers, effectively communicate with leaders their financial and statistical performance as compared to peers.

Maintain the Budgeting application structure including implementing physical database objects, managing data, and utilizing application toolsets to transform data for end users to make business decisions.

Understand the dimensional and relational architecture of the Budgeting application to produce accurate and actionable data.

Design and develop complex analyses of financial, clinical, physician and operational reports.

Create detailed statistical data using various applications. Understand the source, nature and use to further add to the architecture of the budget application and related worksheets.

Analyze and review financial data, variances, trends, and results on a consistent and routine basis.

Draft concise written reports with recommendations to Director level management, as appropriate.

Build and maintain models that include physician data modeling and benchmarking.

Develop solutions that process and manipulate large amounts of data into information that can be used for sound business decisions for annual budgeting and long-range forecasting.

Generate financial and analytical reports that contribute to the overall proper stewardship of organizational resources and empower management to make decisions that improve patient care and ancillary services while being cost effective.

Maintain monthly financial reporting for leaders.

Demonstrate and maintain effective interdepartmental communication and collaboration.

Responsible for reviewing, reconciling, and maintaining data (hours) between the labor productivity, payroll, timekeeping, and general ledger systems.

Assist in workforce planning by analyzing historical data and predicting future staffing needs based on patient volumes, seasonal trends, and other relevant factors.

Responsible for reviewing, reconciling, and maintaining volume data (statistics) between labor productivity and EPIC.

Assessing financial and operational impact of productivity.

Responsible for assisting with and acting as resource for the development of internal productivity standards.

Acting as an internal "consultant" to management regarding productivity as needed.

Performing detailed data "mining" on productivity data to understand root cause and perform analysis on same.

Develops, implements, and evaluates processes to improve productivity and assist managers in meeting their targeted labor expenses, including the reduction of premium time.

Through analysis, provide senior Administration with data to help ensure maximum employee productivity and performance, reduction in labor costs, and alignment of labor decisions with strategic initiatives.

Assist in quarterly submission of Hospital benchmarking Vizient ODB (or other) data, as well as understanding data views and reporting on benchmarks.

Demonstrate conformance to Valley Medical Center's policies and procedures.

Perform all job functions in a manner consistent with Valley's cultural expectations defined as Valley Values. These characteristics include quality performance, demonstrating compassion, respect, teamwork, community centered awareness, and innovation.

Other duties and special projects as assigned.

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance or Healthcare field, required. Master's degree preferred.

Minimum five years of healthcare clinical financial analyst experience with an emphasis in financial planning, budgeting, labor productivity, benchmarking and analysis, required.

Strong financial planning skills including data collection, financial analysis, and experience preparing and presenting management-level presentations.

Knowledge of hospital, practitioner, and non-hospital care services and the key performance indicators that drive their businesses.

Understanding of Financial Planning application architectures (knowledge of Infor, Kronos, Vizient ODB and/or MGMA benchmarking applications desired).

Demonstrated skills in strategic planning, forecasting, and operational and capital budgeting, preferably in the healthcare industry.

Proficient in Kronos, Epic, Infor (Desired), Microsoft Office products, especially Excel, Tableau, or similar analytics software.

Proficient in budgeting, labor analytics, productivity, and statistical theories.

Skilled in concepts around practitioner compensation, including productivity and financial forecasting.

Strong analytical skills to independently review data and troubleshoot to ensure data integrity.

Ability to design complex financial analysis using financial and patient data and industry benchmarks.

Familiarity with project development and demonstrated ability to lead solution-focused problem-solving efforts.

Advanced understanding of clinical terms; understanding of service lines within a hospital environment.

Demonstrated ability to be self-directed, learn quickly with a strong attention to detail.

Ability to set priorities, produce accurate work, and meet deadlines; ability to function independently in a setting with a wide variety of duties.

Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate and build effective relationships with members of senior leadership, departmental managers, and other non-financial personnel.

Understands organizational dynamics and ability to lead others toward goal achievements.