Financial Analyst - ESS

Financial Analyst - Enterprise Shared Services

Summary 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.
• Serve 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.

Additional Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Excel

Physical Demands Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing, frequent keyboard use, *patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.

Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Inc.

Primary Location Address

1101 Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America