What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Analyst position at Baptist Health Care?
Job Description
The Financial Analyst supports reporting and analytics needs by leveraging financial results, statistics, and needs related to Decision Support. The Financial Analyst is responsible for managing master data sets, developing reports, and troubleshooting data issues. The role supports the development and delivery of data to stakeholders to ensure that they have the information necessary to operate successfully.
Responsibilities
Minimum Education
Baptist Health Care is a not-for-profit health care system committed to improving the quality of life for people and communities in northwest Florida and south Alabama. The organization includes three hospitals, four medical parks, Andrews Institute for Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine, and an extensive primary and specialty care provider network. With more than 4,000 team members, Baptist Health Care is one of the largest non-governmental employers in northwest Florida.
Baptist Health Care, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BHC maintains and enforces a policy that prohibits discrimination against any workforce members or applicants for employment because of sex, race, age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, religion, genetic information, or other category protected by federal, state or local law.
The Financial Analyst supports reporting and analytics needs by leveraging financial results, statistics, and needs related to Decision Support. The Financial Analyst is responsible for managing master data sets, developing reports, and troubleshooting data issues. The role supports the development and delivery of data to stakeholders to ensure that they have the information necessary to operate successfully.
Responsibilities
- Assists in the maintenance of the decision support systems.
- Works closely with multidisciplinary teams in order to provide accurate and timely information.
- Assists with identification of data sources and data elements essential for inclusion in the data reporting. Assists with developing written documentation of system procedures, data field definitions and sources of the data.
- Executes audits to ensure data integrity and system processing in accordance with enterprise standards.
- Maintains and enhances data integrity procedures and reports for continual improvement to ensure data quality standards are met. Oversees execution of procedures to this end. Acts as the champion for data quality.
- Facilitates and/or designs reports and other data analysis tools for end users and consults with Decision Support leader.
- Works closely with leadership on ad hoc reporting, identifying areas of opportunity.
- Ensures data and analytics and electronic medical record alignment for related processes, tools and policies provided by leadership.
- Communicates and fosters cross-functional collaboration with leadership and analytics stakeholders to develop analytics strategic objectives and goals.
- Ensures training support to educate staff on analytics tools, dashboard interpretation, best practices, and use of data to support organizational aims.
- Engages with the BHC Information Security Officer to assure that data and patient privacy are integrated to the design, access, and management of information.
- Effectively communicates departmental, organization, and industry issues to leadership.
Minimum Education
- Bachelor's Degree Accounting, Business, Finance, Related field Required
- 2 years Budgeting, accounting, finance or health care analytics Required
- Strong communication skills and demonstrated ability to build relationships at all levels of the organization.
- Strong intuition and ability to dig deep into data.
- Ability to provide analysis on the data delivered so that the information can be acted on in a meaningful way.
- Ability to work well in a team environment and maintain relationship with external partners.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- High attention to detail, organization, and ability to meet tight deadlines.
Baptist Health Care is a not-for-profit health care system committed to improving the quality of life for people and communities in northwest Florida and south Alabama. The organization includes three hospitals, four medical parks, Andrews Institute for Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine, and an extensive primary and specialty care provider network. With more than 4,000 team members, Baptist Health Care is one of the largest non-governmental employers in northwest Florida.
Baptist Health Care, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BHC maintains and enforces a policy that prohibits discrimination against any workforce members or applicants for employment because of sex, race, age, color, disability, marital status, national origin, religion, genetic information, or other category protected by federal, state or local law.