Director Financial Systems and Cost Accounting

Highmark Health

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About The Position

This position will play a critical leadership role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and strategic utility of AHN's financial data and cost accounting practices. This position is responsible for developing and maintaining robust cost accounting standards, optimizing the integration and data integrity across various financial and operational systems (including core financial ERP, Workday, and productivity systems), and leading technical build and implementation of sophisticated budgeting models. The Director will drive insights through overhead benchmarking and system allocations, ensuring financial data reliably supports strategic decision-making, operational efficiency, and accurate financial reporting across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, healthcare administration, or accounting or CPA certification
• 10 years of combined healthcare administration and cost accounting experience required
• 5 years of leadership experience

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in business administration, healthcare administration, or accounting

Responsibilities

• Perform management responsibilities to include, but are not limited to: involved in hiring and termination decisions, coaching and development, rewards and recognition, performance management and staff productivity.
• Plan, organize, staff, direct and control the day-to-day operations of the department; develop and implement policies and programs as necessary; may have budgetary responsibility and authority.
• The director will be responsible for the development of the cost accounting system across all domains of the AHN provider network. This will include overseeing the development of RVU weight based time standards in keep operating departments and working with hospital operations to accurately reflect time allocations for major clinical processes.
• In addition, the director will work with IT interface teams to assure the transmission of files associated with cost for pharmacy and supply items. Once the cost models are complete, the Director will be responsible for helping to utilize the data from the system to support the business cases and care model redesign efforts aimed at improving both clinical outcomes at a reduced cost.
• Director will actively participate in system-wide and department-specific initiatives and will work with physician leaders to help develop cost models and analysis to help identify variation in practice and opportunities to improve the cost position within the organization.
• Facilitate the technical build, configuration, and ongoing maintenance of the organizational budget process and associated systems, in close partnership with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
• Develop and implement robust financial reporting tools and dashboards that provide quick, reliable, and actionable insights, with the flexibility to adapt to evolving business requirements.
• As needed, engage with finance leaders to support data integrity across different financial systems, including but not limited to benchmarking systems, workforce / productivity systems, and supply chain systems.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees