Job Description
Job Title : Revenue Cycle Decision Support Analyst 2

Job Summary :

The Revenue Cycle Decision Support Analyst 2 compiles complex qualitative and quantitative clinical and financial data from multiple sources, and synthesizes results into meaningful reports and presentations to assist senior management in decision making and other financial initiatives. This includes maintenance of various data repositories, variance analyses between actual and standard costs, report writing, productivity analyses, identification of trends, financial forecasting, and budgeting.

Requirements :

• Experience : 3 year analytical or finance related work
• Education : Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Engineering, or other math/science oriented field is required.

Job Standards :
1. System Management

1. Maintains assigned software systems and/or databases needed to provide data to the facilities which may include any of the following: the Decision Support Software System, the Action OI Benchmarking System, the Market Share Access Database, the Trident Database, the Press-Ganey Database, the Departmental Sharepoint Site, and the Budgeting System
2. Creates and loads necessary data submission files to populate data in the assigned systems or works with FMOLHS I/T to ensure that data submission files are created and loaded
3. Serves as the liaison between the facility, the vendor, and FMOLHS I/T to resolve any software issues
4. Ensures that the assigned systems data loads are occurring timely and efficiently
5. Audits the assigned systems for accuracy and data integrity and maintains appropriate documentation on the data validation process

2. Decision Support / Analytics

1. Prepares the initial annual operating and capital budget files, assists management with modifying their budgets, provides necessary reports throughout the budget process, and finalizes the budget files so they are ready for accounting to load into the General Ledger system
2. Prepares routine and adhoc reports in order to ensure that the hospital is operating within budget and/or meeting its strategic objectives related to finances, market share, growth, and quality
3. Prepares reports on key metrics and statistics
4. Initiates and/or responds to benchmarking questionnaires and surveys involving other healthcare facilities and external agencies. Summarizes data for relevant users of the information
5. Creates, produces, and publishes all reports in a timely manner, monitoring and interpreting any trends and/or outliers. Includes narratives, analytical comments, and/or conditional formatting in reports to provide information to customers rather than just data
6. Ensures that reports are published in a customer friendly format with appropriate print ranges, titling, and documentation included

3. Collaboration, Partnership and Communication

1. Conducts meetings with customers as needed to discuss, educate, and obtain feedback on systems and/or reports
2. Prepares and presents formal presentations and reports to various levels of hospital management and staff in an effort to promote hospital health care service efficiency and quality
3. Works directly with management as a business partner to understand hospital operations and their data needs which may lead to the preparation of staffing matrices proformas for new nursing units, profitability analysis for the evaluation of services, etc
4. Assesses the audience in a situation and provides the appropriate level of information in a report, presentation, or discussion being aware that too much detail can be overwhelming and too little detail may be useless
5. Assists with training of analyst new tothe Decision Support Department