Senior Financial Business Systems Analyst

Stanford Medicine Children's Health•Palo Alto, CA

1d•$63 - $81•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Finance Business Systems Analyst supports core functions of the health system's business and financial applications to enable cost-effective, high quality, efficient, and safe patient care. This position will implement, administer, and support assigned systems under the minimal guidance of senior members of the team. The position will have a thorough understanding of managing business and financial operations within a healthcare environment. This position independently addresses issues and design decisions of moderate to high complexity with little or no supervision and delivers clear communication and documentation of complex concepts and issues related to applications, interfaces, data structures, and workflows across the organization. This position will act as a liaison between business teams, application vendors and IT for system integration, enhancements, and issue fixes. This position will be responsible for translating complex business needs and making recommendations. This role will provide guidance to the project team and facilitate key project meetings, communications, and working sessions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Computer Science, Business Management, Accounting, or other related field/discipline from an accredited college or university or equivalent combination of education/work experience.
Five (5) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience.
Knowledge of Workday and its implementation
Knowledge of current issues and trends in health care and clinical operations in a health care system
Knowledge of core business and financial applications as well as other information systems and computer applications used in a health care setting
Knowledge of computer systems and software used in functional area
Demonstrated ability to analyze highly complex systems and workflows and implement solutions to simplify, streamline, and automate transactions
Ability to conceptualize, plan, organize, coordinate, and manage the work of a major program or function within the department
Demonstrated ability to engage actively in complex discussions, often on challenging and/or controversial subjects
Ability to collaborate and build consensus with stakeholders
Ability to negotiate on behalf of others to achieve best outcomes for the department and the organization as a whole
Ability to handle confrontation with appropriate grace, professionalism, cordiality, and firmness, and manages/resolves disputes appropriately
Ability to communicate concepts in concise and eloquent form to management and to cross-functional departments or teams verbally, in writing, and through pictures or diagrams when appropriate
Ability to establish a set of tasks and activities associated with an intended outcome and timeline.
Ability to take action consistent with available facts, constraints, and anticipated consequences
Ability to understand and adhere to operational standards, policies, and procedures
Ability to identify risks or issues, and propose solutions
Ability to develop new skills and teach others
Ability to analyze data, draw conclusions and interpret results

Responsibilities

Act as a technology subject matter expert and clearly communicate technical concepts in business terms between and across the different groups while influencing outcomes.
Lead ERP upgrade initiatives that include technical details, user expectations, project goals, work effort, accountability, and deliverables.
Coordinate efforts of project estimation for review with cross organization technical as well as business teams.
Assist preparation of detailed system requirements documents incorporating system impact analysis as well as use cases.
Proactively identify system optimization and enhancements in order to design and implement effective solutions.
Proactively identify trends and detect/anticipate problems early.
Perform ongoing review of system configuration and design options in order to make appropriate recommendations for system maintenance requests.
Lead issue resolution and update Functional Specification document as required.
Research issues and use independent analysis and judgment to produce solution options including pros, cons, risks, benefits, costs, and unintended consequences.
Lead change control process from procedures, issue tracking, development of training materials, communicating changes, and delivering training to end users.