Manager of Financial Planning and Analytics

Department

BSD UCF - Decision Support & Planning

About the Department

The Biological Sciences Division (BSD) and the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) are managed by a single Dean/Executive Vice President and comprises the largest unit of the University, accounting for 60% of its annual budget. All physician, hospital, and clinic services are managed through the Medical Center, which is a $1.3 billion enterprise. The BSD includes the Pritzker School of Medicine, approximately 20 academic units, degree granting committees, and research centers and institutes. The BSD is located on the University's main campus in Hyde Park, ten minutes south of downtown Chicago. BSD's patient care operations are conducted primarily at the University of Chicago Hospital and clinics, which share the same campus. The University of Chicago Practice Plan (UCPP) is the central organization that supports the clinical activity of nearly 850 clinically active faculty practicing at the University of Chicago. These clinically active faculty collectively form the University of Chicago Physicians Group (UCPG). The University of Chicago Physicians' Group (UCPG) is a component of the physician practice plan for the University of Chicago. The UCPG department provides billing services for medical services provided by University physicians and manages the accounts receivable collection and reporting processes for the Biological Sciences Division (BSD) departments. Each physician is a faculty member and is based in a specified department in the BSD.

Job Summary

The job manages operating and capital budgets for divisions and/or University-wide administrative units. Helps develop long and short term financial goals, business strategies/plans, and financial forecasts/models for major service programs and initiatives. Manages quarterly and year-end reporting for the operating budget.

The Manager is responsible for maintaining and enhancing decision support systems to provide a diverse range of data and analysis for sound business and clinical decisions. They will analyze, develop, implement, and deliver plans for improving data warehousing, business intelligence, and application solutions.

The Manager will be responsible for providing reporting and information to divisional and UCMC leadership by analyzing operational volumes, service utilization, and the organization's competitive position in the marketplace. The manager will use variety of different data sources, both internal to the company (patient encounter, financial) and external (hospital associations).

Has a comprehensive understanding of data and analytic tools as well as health care/revenue information systems and technology and has an advanced ability to apply these tools and methodologies to extrapolate data, analyze and report it in a meaningful format to inform and drive UCPG’s performance. Interacts and communicates independently within divisional and hospital executives. Serves as a resource for data management and analysis. Supports project development, coordination, and evaluation efforts. Analyzes and interprets revenue cycle data. Specific functions include tool design, clinical data extraction, analysis and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Oversee production of a variety of month end reporting packages that serve the revenue cycle management, staff, and clinical departments.

• Oversee the updating and maintenance of the data fed to the Clinical Practice Solution Center (CPSC).

• Field access requests to various internal dashboards and browser-based reports.

• Act a training resource across the organization with respect to customized transaction, AR and denial cubes.

• Perform all manner of ad hoc data analysis involving revenue cycle data and metrics.

• Work with BI programming staff to enhance and maintain assorted dashboards.

• Support revenue cycle staff and clinical departments in the analysis of revenue cycle data and reports.

• Act as a possible liaison to other consumers of UCPG data across the enterprise.

• Develop an ability to use Strata (UCMC’s decision support system) to augment analysis when necessary.

• Support ongoing analytics related to compensation planning, including building presentations and doing ad hoc modeling and projections.

• Process invoices, purchase orders, and any monthly and sporadic journal entries.

• Assess, modify and/or develop and implement processes/procedures/systems to increase efficiency, accuracy and insightfulness of data analytics.

• Conducts financial research to advance decision-making and communication for critical stakeholders. Solves financial problems by designing and executing regular and ad hoc financial analysis, including forecasting, risk analysis, and evaluation of strategic options.

• Identifies critical areas for attention and analysis. Devises approaches for improving the general level of strategic and analytical thinking.

• Serves as an experienced liaison interacting with financial administrators within operational units on financial, budget or accounting matters to prepare, advise and recommend.

• Provides financial input based on the development of data collection, metrics, reports and other analytical applications.

• Works independently to maintain and support the planning and execution of financial strategy.

• Uses best practices and in-depth financial knowledge to assist in the preparation of annual budgets. Works with minimal guidance to provide analytical support for complex budget projects. Examines past budgets and researches economic and financial developments that affect spending.

• Acts as a resource for team members, solves complex problems. Explains complex and sensitive information.

• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

Work Experience:

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

Certifications:

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Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field; CPA, MHA or MBA strongly preferred.

Experience:

• (5) years of Decision Support, Accounting, or Finance experience in a multi-site healthcare environment.

• Experience with budgets, revenue cycle, and fiscal reporting. 

• Experience working in the healthcare industry.

Preferred Competencies

• Proficiency with spreadsheet and word processing software. 

• Knowledge of revenue cycle metrics strongly preferred. 

• Ability to communicate accounting and financial information clearly and concisely. 

• Excellent oral and written communication skills. 

• Attention to detail. 

• Analytical and problem solving skills.

• Team building and team development skills.

• Confidentiality/discretion must be maintained at all times.

• Ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks competently and professionally in a fast-paced atmosphere.  

Working Conditions

• Ability to work for long periods of time in a sitting position, at a keyboard, viewing computer screen.  

• 100% Remote.

Application Documents

• Resume (required)

• Cover Letter (required)

Job Family

Financial Management

Role Impact

Individual Contributor

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Drug Test Required

No

Health Screen Required

No

Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required

No

Pay Rate Type

Salary

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FLSA Status

Exempt

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Pay Range

$90,000.00 - $130,000.00

The included pay rate or range represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.

Benefits Eligible

Yes

The University of Chicago offers a wide range of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and paid time off. Information about the benefit offerings can be found in the Benefits Guidebook.

Posting Statement

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