Assistant Director of Finance

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue is America's oldest public hospital, established in 1736. Affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine, the 844-bed hospital is a major referral center for highly complex cases, with its 6,000 employees including highly skilled, interdisciplinary clinical staff. It sees more than 110,000 emergency room visits and 700,000 outpatient visits annually. Bellevue is an academic medical institution of international renown. We have served as an incubator for major innovations in public health, medical science, and medical education. Bellevue is a Level I Trauma Center delivering around-the-clock care in adult, pediatric, psychiatric and pediatric psychiatric emergencies as well as in the nationally-designated categories of cardiology, neurology, toxicology, and neonatology. In addition to providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient state-of-the-art care Bellevue is a city-wide medical specialty referral source. Bellevue's clinical centers of excellence include: Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care; Cardiovascular Services; Designated Regional Perinatal Center and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU); Comprehensive Children's Psychiatric Emergency Program; and Cancer Services.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Work Shifts

9:00 A.M - 5:00 P.M

No weekend requirement.

Duties & Responsibilities

Purpose of Position:
Under general supervision of the Deputy Director of Finance, plans, initiates, monitors, directs and coordinates finance programs including areas such as accounts payable, health care setting management and cost reporting systems, payroll, special accounting, internal and external financial reports, data control, affiliation accounting, asset control, cash receipts, cash disbursements, daily investment of idle cash funds, general accounting and capital accounting. Coordinates the efforts of staff members in initiating and completing work assignments within the framework of departmental objectives and priorities to ensure the accurate, timely and systematic flow of documents and reports for the provision of necessary financial services. Acts in compliance with all applicable governmental laws, rules and regulations and other applicable external regulatory requirements and/or guidelines.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Reviews and coordinates plans, activities, programs, practices and operations within the department to determine if operational functions are best servicing needs.
2. Monitors document flow from health care setting financial units for timeliness, completeness and accuracy.
3. Initiates and implements standard operating procedures and new accounting systems to simplify work load and improve flow of accounting and finance.
4. Reviews operational procedures in compliance with authorized systems; implements changes necessary to stave off deterioration of their effectiveness, and recommends and guides the installation of improved procedures for efficient operation of current health care setting financial systems.
5. Provides general supervision including the general direction and review of staff personnel, and determines critical document flow points, and recommends solutions to affect resolution of stoppages or delayed processing.
6. Engages in the development and maintenance of staff personnel at a level to fulfill operational needs of finance, accounting and systems requirements.
7. Prepares special studies and analysis relevant to finance and accounting matters.
8. Develops and maintains a system of reports for the guidance of NYC Health + Hospitals financial management and health care setting controllers in the operation of authorized financial and accounting systems, and supervises on a current basis all financial data books, ledgers, records and reports needed to account for and record the results of operations and assets of the System and its subsidiaries.
9. Participates in staff conferences, attends various meetings with key personnel of other NYC Health + Hospitals offices and outside agencies.
10. Performs other related duties, as directed.

Minimum Qualifications
1. Master's degree from an accredited college or university in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related discipline with an emphasis on accounting and financial systems; and two (2) years of responsible-level experience in fiscal management or administration with an emphasis on financial
systems, management information and controls, one (1) year of which must have been in a responsible administrative or managerial capacity; or
2.Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in disciplines, as listed in "1" above; and three(3)years of experience, as described in "1" above, one (1) year of which must have been in a responsible administrative or managerial capacity.

Benefits

NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week
• Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
• Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
• Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
• College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
• College Savings Program
• Union Benefits for eligible titles
• Multiple employee discounts programs
• Commuter Benefits Programs

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