Financial Analyst, Expert (Provider Compensation)

Are you ready to take the lead in shaping financial strategy at one of the nation's top healthcare organizations? UPMC Corporate Finance is seeking a Financial Analyst, Expert (Provider Compensation) to drive impactful change through advanced data analysis and strategic insight.


Purpose:


Take a leadership role in strengthening and standardizing the physician and provider compensation infrastructure at UPMC. Identify the key drivers and variations of compensation rates and practices across the enterprise to propose and implement process improvements and efficiencies. Develop tools and reporting solutions that marry data sources to further transparency and automate analytics. Weigh practical considerations and potential barriers from many stakeholders to successfully implement new programs and processes.


Responsibilities:


• Must use their knowledge and expert understanding of financial, clinical, and other information generated by numerous sources to identify opportunities to improve financial performance and compensation efficacy that promotes organization goals.


• Perform financial and statistical analyses and be able to explain this analysis to a non-technical audience of both internal and external customers and, at times, senior management and physicians.


• Build and maintain analytical tools, dashboards, and reporting solutions that provide visibility into compensation metrics, productivity, and financial impact.


• Partner closely with clinical service line and regional leadership along with legal, operational finance, HR, and payroll to understand and drive organization priorities and while maintaining internal and external best practices and compliance.


• Successfully manage many competing demands, complete work within allocated time, and be proactive in process improvement.


• Identify root causes of moderately complex issues or trends, and propose valuable solutions, including potential modifications to policies and procedures.


• Implement and monitor the effectiveness of new processes and compensation software, driving precision, standardization, and efficiency across regions and service lines.


• Meet deadlines and turnaround times set by managers and department leadership (these deadlines and turnaround times will, at times, require the employee to work until the project is completed, meaning extended daily work hours, extended work weeks, or both).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related business field required.


• Minimum of five years of related work experience required OR


• A Master's degree or CPA license and four years of experience


• OR High School Diploma/GED and seven years of related work experience.


• Microsoft Office spreadsheet application required, and PeopleSoft General Ledger proficiency preferred.


• Demonstrate a high degree of professionalism, enthusiasm, and initiative on a daily basis.


• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment a must.


• Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects, and forge strong interpersonal relationships within the department, with other departments, and with external audiences.


• Attention to detail is critical to the success of this position, with demonstrated competency in customer orientation and the ability to deal with ambiguity.


• Excellent planning, communication, documentation, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.


• Advanced mathematical skills.


• Ability to interpret and summarize results of various analyses in a timely and meaningful way.


• Ability to effectively approach problem solving.


• Ability to re-engineer processes to positively impact productivity in terms of timeliness and accuracy.


Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

• Act 34

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran