Financial Analyst - ESS

Thomas Jefferson University•Philadelphia, PA

12d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides financial and statistical information to management, staff, and external customers in compliance with internal and external requirements by efficiently accessing the organization's financial and decision support systems and through effectively analyzing and verifying the inputs and outputs from those systems. Maintains financial records and systems in accordance with GAAP, Hospital policies and the Healthcare Audit Guide.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
3 years experience as an accountant, financial analyst or the equivalent.
Knowledge of hospital and physician payment methodologies.
Proficiency in the use of personal computers operated in a Windows environment and ability to use various mainframe and PC-based software applications.
Proficiency in Excel and Word is required.
Must function cooperatively as part of the finance team and exhibit flexibility in response to changing demands and priorities.
Work requires effective written and oral communication skills with a need for communications to be complete, concise and understandable. The target audience varies from department managers, other finance staff and external audiences.

Nice To Haves

Experience in budgeting, capital project financial analysis, net revenue and reimbursement computations, decision support, and financial reporting is desirable
Proficiency in Excel

Responsibilities

Assists and prepares, accurate, complete, and understandable financial information for timely distribution to internal and external users. Financial information includes, but is not limited to Inpatient, OBV, AO, and outpatient service line/business unit financial performance reports, payer financial performance reports, extensive use of decision support systems, including appropriate interpretation and presentation of data, net revenue/reimbursement computations, payer contract supporting computations, budget proposals, budget development, monthly actual/budget analysis, business plans, and look-back reviews.
Assists in annual operating budget preparation of the hospitals and LVHS activities and monthly actual/budget analysis under direction of the Budget Manager.
Maintains financial systems, decision support systems, and certain financial or statistical elements of related systems supporting budgeting, financial analysis, net revenue, and reimbursement.
Participate in applying software and hardware upgrades to the systems as appropriate.
Participates and assists in the monthly financial statement close and preparation of monthly financial statements as assigned under the direction of the Assistant Controller through determination of net revenue, analysis of expenses, valuation of accounts receivable and development of other supporting documentation as required.
Reports, budgets, projects/forecasts volume utilization by program, physician, and clinical department as required.
Serve as a resource to Finance management to assist in ad hoc projects and other duties as assigned.
Analyses and other information that is provided to the customer is prepared in a concise, easy-to-understand manner.
Information that is provided to the customer is prepared in a concise, easy-to-understand manner.
Responds to customer inquiries ideally on the day they are received, but never later than the following day.

Benefits

medical (including prescription)
supplemental insurance
dental
vision
life and AD&D insurance
short- and long-term disability
flexible spending accounts
retirement plans
tuition assistance
voluntary benefits
tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service.