Senior Financial Analyst-Transplant Administration

University of Mississippi Medical Center•Jackson, MS

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst within the budget office works with financial data to ensure proper spending controls are in place. The role helps develop and maintain revenue and spending budgets for accuracy, control, and compliance. It supports the implementation, presentation, and ongoing management of capital, operating, statistical, and personnel budgets; develops financial strategies, management reporting, and analytics; and prepares forecasts and financial reports. The analyst collaborates with departments to ensure budget and decision-support data are accurate, analyzes financial information, and presents findings and recommendations to leadership. The position also assists with learning and configuring a new financial planning, reporting, and decision-support application to meet UMMC needs, and reconciles source data from Epic and Workday into that application. The role is based at the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Main Campus in Jackson. It is full time, salaried, exempt, and grant funded status is listed as No. Occasional travel to offsite locations is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
Three years of related experience.
Excellent communication and project management skills.
Proficient use of formulas in Microsoft Excel, or similar skills.

Nice To Haves

Medical/healthcare or higher education experience preferred.
Master’s degree in business or healthcare administration strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Support implementation, presentation, and ongoing management of capital, operating, statistical, and personnel budgets.
Collaborate with other departments to ensure accuracy of data submitted in budget and decision-support systems.
Perform financial analysis and make recommendations to senior leadership and other key areas.
Learn and assist in implementing a new financial planning, reporting, and decision-support application; learn its details and configure it to UMMC needs.
Develop financial strategies, management reporting, and analytics for the organization.
Prepare financial forecasts, including projected revenue, expenses, net income, cash, and borrowing.
Understand business drivers and strategies, interpret financial data, and present findings and recommendations to improve results.
Extract, verify, compile, analyze, and format data from healthcare industry databases and other sources for planning, benchmarking, decision support, evaluation, and accountability.
Reconcile source data from Epic and Workday into the Financial Planning application.
Prepare monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad hoc financial reports and analyses.
Analyze financial reports to ensure revenue and expenses are captured in the appropriate cost center.