Business Process Consultant

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia•Philadelphia, PA

About The Position

The Business Process Consultant is a strategic role focused on strengthening enterprise resilience, operational excellence, and financial continuity across Revenue Cycle Operations and Enterprise Financial Services. This position ensures critical financial processes remain secure, compliant, and operational by leading business continuity and disaster recovery planning, including all-hazard and cyber event preparedness, and overseeing Epic Harbor (Isolated Recovery Environment) initiatives that protect mission-critical revenue workflows. This role also drives vendor performance and value optimization through governance, performance scorecards, contract oversight, and escalation management, while leading enterprise quality control and policy governance efforts to ensure regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and operational integrity. By integrating continuity planning, vendor management, and quality governance, the Business Process Consultant delivers measurable impact—protecting revenue, reducing risk, and ensuring consistent, reliable financial operations at scale.

Requirements

High School Diploma / GED Required
At least five (5) years experience with system design, process workflow design or business/systems consulting. Required
Strong analytical and communication skills (Required proficiency)
Strong computer skills to include database analysis (Required proficiency)
Extensive knowledge of workflow and/or system design (Required proficiency)
Extensive knowledge of analytical tools, business intelligence tools and statistical packages (Required proficiency)

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree Preferred
EPIC experience Preferred
Revenue Cycle experience Preferred
Statistical software experience (Preferred proficiency)
EPIC certification - EPIC - - Preferred
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB) - Lean Six Sigma Green Belt - LSSGB - American Society for Quality - - Preferred

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain written documentation for processes that exist between departments, systems, external vendors and payers.
Act as a high-level business process consultant between operations, performance improvement and IT for needs that cross boundaries. Implement processes and practices that can adapt quickly to changing organization, business, and payer demands. The position does not replace normal relationships between various departments but rather acts as a compliment to existing relationships to enhance and expedite performance improvement activities.
Reviews business process, system or other changes that might impact existing workflows and recommends methods to optimize to desired state and improve efficiency. Review system or process architecture in scope of assigned projects.
Perform business impact reviews of test plans that span across departments, workflows or systems or to assess impact, efficiency and effectiveness.
Create, optimize, and support the implementation of processes that link closely to system workflows. Determine how these workflows will impact existing staffing, how to continuously refresh and monitor these flows and recommend optimal change management processes.
Communicate information clearly and create an environment where people can engage in open dialogue and reach effective solutions together to optimize workflow or process.
Direct cross-functional teams to resolve complex issues related to automated workflows or other complex processes or lead discussions with the business and operational leaders to analyze reporting needs, configure and model data and develop reports using specialized knowledge of reporting applications and software applications.
Responsible for creating and managing the financial and operational reports generated on regular and an ad hoc basis using software applications for report writing and data warehousing; provides consultation and assistance to ensure end users and operational reporting needs are met through report development and design.
Primary liaison to various internal and external user groups within CHOP in terms of revenue cycle data reporting and analysis. Assist revenue cycle leadership, management, and staff in analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data and information to various parties.
Develop and build reporting solutions that monitor and benchmark cost, utilization and other quality and performance indicators; Act as primary support to senior leadership in accessing relevant data necessary to develop strategic and operational business plans, and process improvements.
Develop business case analysis to support process optimization and change.
Perform troubleshooting, problem solving activities related to business intelligence reporting as necessary. Analyze data and reports to understand business impact, correlations/discrepancies, and to propose changes/alternate solutions. Work closely with the Information Technology teams to resolve issues and perform analysis in a timely manner.