Fiscal Information Data Analyst (WMS2/FS)

State of Washington • Thurston County – Olympia, WA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This Fiscal Information and Data Analyst role offers a high-impact, non-supervisory position managing a $2.6 billion behavioral health budget. Ideal for analytical professionals, it provides influence over Medicaid rate setting, legislative processes, and AI/AN programs while working directly with executive leadership, offering significant career visibility, stability, and professional development. All HCA employees will apply an equity lens to their work, which may include but is not limited to all analyses of core business and processes. The Financial Services Division (FSD), in collaboration with other HCA divisions and a variety of external stakeholders and legislative partners, provides strategic financial expertise for Apple Health, Community Behavioral Health (CBH), PEBB and SEBB programs. In addition, FSD oversees the budget and compliance functions necessary to manage and monitor the single largest Washington State individual operating budget. Functions include budget management, accounting, forecasting, professional and hospital rate setting, financial analysis, and payment/collection operations. This division maintains a close working relationship with agency program, policy, and clinical divisions to ensure financially sound implementation and monitoring of program strategies. It is also accountable to the Governor and legislature in ensuring HCA operates within its budget. The Fiscal Information and Data Analyst is a non-supervisory, analytical position that reports to the Section Management for Community Behavioral Health appropriations and concentrates on the systematic planning, budgetary analysis and post-implementation management of the Behavioral Health initiatives including American Indian Alaskan Native (AI/AN) Fee for Service (FFS) program. This position provides advanced level technical analysis, advice, and recommendations to management decision makers, including the HCA Chief Financial Officer and agency executive management. The incumbent’s work directly affects the management of the Community Behavioral Health $2.6 billion budget, grant and discretionary funding, and Medicaid rate setting. This position is eligible to telework but is required to report on-site 1 day a week and occasionally to meet business need. The default assigned work location of all Health Care Authority (HCA) positions – both on-site and telework eligible positions – is within the State of Washington. This position reports to Olympia, WA. Frequency of onsite work will vary based on business and operational needs. HCA has currently suspended the ability to support out-of-state telework.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in public administration, healthcare administration, finance, accounting, business or related fields and Three (3) or more years of professional experience working with large, complex financial systems/information within the behavioral health care or health care field.
• Associate’s degree from an accredited college or university and Five (5) years of professional experience working with large, complex financial systems/information within the behavioral health care or health care field.
• Seven (7) years of professional experience working with large, complex financial systems/information within the behavioral health care or health care field.
• Expert/advanced level skill with Microsoft Excel and working knowledge of designing complex modeling, structuring and ad-hoc data for use in pivot tables, and composing nested formulas.
• Ability to creatively use resources to create and document work processes and analytical tools.
• Working knowledge of analytical query protocols/software such as SQL.
• Ability to analyze financial data, identify data needs, develop problem solving strategies, support ideas using financial data as evidence, develop goals and priorities, and establish benchmarks.
• Ability to analyze and research the differences among budgeted and forecasted expenditures and actual expenditures and effectively communicate the reason for the differences.
• Analytical skills for financial research and modeling in complex multi-system environment.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex financial/analytical information for non-financial/analytical audiences.
• Experience communicating with an array of audiences, ranging from staff with little financial background to elected government officials and federal auditors.
• Ability to coordinate and build consensus among internal/external stakeholders toward the development of department and legislative initiatives.
• Ability to develop and review complex written materials and provide detailed policy analysis.

Nice To Haves

• Two (2) or more years of experience querying or managing financial data, financial standards and program requirements for behavioral health or healthcare systems.
• Four (4) or more years of experience in the development of behavioral health or healthcare related financial modeling, financial program management, monitoring and reporting.
• Seven (7) years of experience working in the financial field.
• Experience working with the Washington State Agency Financial Reporting System (AFRS) data.
• Experience contributing to decision packages and fiscal notes.
• Knowledge of protocols/processes of the executive/legislative branches of state government.
• Knowledge of Provider One System.
• Experience with the Washington State Budget Development System (BDS).
• Experience working with the federal government.
• Familiarity with State and Federal laws, rules, and regulations that impact/govern the State’s Medicaid, CHIP, and state funded health programs.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple high priority assignments and resources concurrently, taking initiative to resolve problems or recommend alternative approaches when appropriate.
• Work closely with outside agencies and other external staff on many regular as well as ad hoc tasks, primarily receiving and requesting information and analysis.
• Provide expert financial level budget, program and system planning and analysis for the Statewide Behavioral Health programs for the community mental health and substance use disorder budgets based on policies set at the Executive level.
• Create and use complex databases, spreadsheets, tables, graphs, and tracking systems including Agency Financial Reporting System (AFRS), Enterprise Reporting (ER) and ad hoc tools like Web Intelligence (Webl) to extract, summarize and evaluate fiscal data.
• Prepare and manage biennial and supplemental budgets for the assigned programs for the Statewide Behavioral Health program populations to provide community mental health and substance use disorders services, on behalf of the Agency.
• Develop and update the financial models prepared in a complex multi-system environment and reconcile the data used for budget requests and fiscal notes periodically to ensure they are always up to date.
• Monitor and analyze Agency expenditures for the Behavioral Health programs.
• Compare expenditures to relevant budgets, forecasts, and projections to ensure that the Agency operates within its budgetary allotments.

Benefits

• Meaningful work with friendly co-workers who care about those we serve
• A clear agency mission that drives our work and is person-centered
• A healthy work/life balance, including alternative/flexible schedules and mobile work options.
• A great total compensation and benefit package
• A safe, pleasant workplace in a convenient location with restaurants, and shopping nearby.
• free parking!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level