Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

Provides financial and statistical information to management, staff, and external customers in compliance with internal and external requirements by efficiently accessing the organization's financial and decision support systems and through effectively analyzing and verifying the inputs and outputs from those systems. Maintains financial records and systems in accordance with GAAP, Hospital policies and the Healthcare Audit Guide.

Job Duties

• Assists and prepares accurate, complete, and understandable financial information for timely distribution to internal and external users.
• Assists in annual operating budget preparation of the hospitals and LVHS activities and monthly actual/budget analysis under direction of the Budget Manager.
• Maintains financial systems, decision support systems, and certain financial or statistical elements of related systems supporting budgeting, financial analysis, net revenue, and reimbursement.
• Participates and assists in the monthly financial statement close and preparation of monthly financial statements as assigned under the direction of the Assistant Controller.
• Reports, budgets, projects/forecasts volume utilization by program, physician, and clinical department as required.
• Serves as a resource to Finance management to assist in ad hoc projects and other duties as assigned.
• Analyses and other information that is provided to the customer is prepared in a concise, easy-to-understand manner.
• Responds to customer inquiries ideally on the day they are received, but never later than the following day.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
• 3 years experience as an accountant, financial analyst or the equivalent. Experience in budgeting, capital project financial analysis, net revenue and reimbursement computations, decision support, and financial reporting is desirable.
• Knowledge of hospital and physician payment methodologies.
• Proficiency in the use of personal computers operated in a Windows environment and ability to use various mainframe and PC-based software applications. Proficiency in Excel and Word is required.
• Must function cooperatively as part of the finance team and exhibit flexibility in response to changing demands and priorities.
• Work requires effective written and oral communication skills with a need for communications to be complete, concise and understandable. The target audience varies from department managers, other finance staff and external audiences.

Work Shift: Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type: Regular

Employee Entity: Thomas Jefferson University

Primary Location Address: 1101 Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.