Senior Functional Analyst

Vancouver Coastal Health; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Vancouver is seeking a qualified Senior Functional Analyst to join their Financial Applications & Analytics Team. The ideal candidate will have a Master’s degree and at least 8 years of experience with complex business systems. Responsibilities include ensuring effective business system support and providing leadership for strategic planning. A competitive salary of CAD $45.48 to $65.38 per hour is offered, along with comprehensive health benefits and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits package

Employer-paid training opportunities

Wellness supports

Recognition programs

Exclusive staff discounts

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in a related discipline supplemented by Information Systems courses.
• Minimum of eight years’ recent experience in a large complex organization.
• Extensive experience in complex Business systems and project planning.

Responsibilities

• Leverage business and technical knowledge for effective business system support.
• Ensure timely resolution of functional Business Systems issues.
• Provide leadership in strategic planning and implement business objectives.

Skills

SQL

Business Systems Knowledge

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Customer Focus

Education

Master’s Degree in a related discipline

Tools

PeopleSoft

Kronos

Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management (HRCM)

Job description

Salary Details

The salary range for this position is CAD $45.48/Hr. - CAD $65.38/Hr.

Job Summary

Come work as a Senior Functional Analyst with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)!

Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for a Senior Functional Analyst to join the Financial Applications & Analytics Team. Apply today to join our team!

As a Senior Functional Analyst with Vancouver Coastal Health you will:

• Leverage business and technical knowledge to ensure that assigned business systems effectively support business strategies, objectives, processes and practices for an assigned business area.
• Be responsible to provide leadership and coordination for ensuring that functional Business Systems issues are resolved effectively and in a timely manner and continually look for opportunities to maximize usage of the system to ensure on‑going business process improvement.
• Be the primary point of contact for the designated business area users (Employee Engagement/Human Resources, Scheduling & Timekeeping, Finance, Payroll, Supply Chain, Accounts Payable and Revenue Services, etc) across Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and Providence Health Care (PHC).
• Be the acknowledged expert in the designated Business Systems’ modules and drive continuous process and system improvement to align with business objectives.
• Provide functional leadership and assistance to executive leaders to strategic planning and implement business objectives.
• Work with users to troubleshoot system problems, test system solutions, establish clear lines of communication and ensure clear visibility to critical functional issues.
• Provide work direction to IMIS team members to address technical issues and work with other corporate departments as well as counterparts in other business areas to mitigate risk around shared elements and critical system dependencies.
• Ensure established operating standards and policies are adhered to.
• Configure system changes affecting system processing and changes to common data elements shared across modules, write queries to pull information from the system and conduct system audits to ensure data integrity.
• Identify opportunities to further take advantage of the system and keep up to date with new and upcoming functionality.

Education & Experience

• Master’s Degree in a related discipline supplemented by related Information Systems courses, plus a minimum of eight (8) years’ recent, related experience within a large complex organization with an emphasis on business systems and reporting an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Extensive experience with complex Business systems, project planning and control are essential.

Knowledge & Abilities

• Advanced knowledge of relational and multidimensional databases and strong Structured Query language (SQL) skills.
• Advanced knowledge of broad scope of computerized Business Systems such as PeopleSoft, Kronos, Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management (HRCM).
• Advanced knowledge of business principles and practices in Employee Engagement/Human Resources, Scheduling & Timekeeping, Finance, Payroll, Supply Chain, Accounts Payable and Revenue Services, etc.
• Knowledge and experience working with complex computer based business and data systems, data integrity process check and internal controls.
• Superior writing and presentation skills, including the ability to comprehend complex issues and related data/information and present information in concise meaningful ways and in a non‑technical and non‑financial manner.
• Strong computer and financial business systems skills including demonstrated ability to productively use spreadsheet, word processing, presentation and database applications.
• Customer focused with an ability to facilitate and encourage co‑operation among diverse groups and skillsets.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to negotiate and influence others, superior organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize workload to meet deadlines, ability to work under pressure and multi‑task without direct supervision, physical ability to perform the duties of the job.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

Closing Statement

As per Ministry of Health policy, all health care workers working in publicly‑funded health care facilities are required to report their past receipt of certain vaccines or history of certain infections. Collecting these records will allow for offering of any missing vaccines, and for appropriate actions to be taken in the event of any future exposure to a communicable disease or during outbreaks. For all new hires and appointments to Vancouver Coastal Health, you will be asked to provide this information as part of the onboarding process.

Why Join Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)

• Comprehensive health benefits package, including MSP, extended health and dental and municipal pension plan.
• Grow your career with employer‑paid training and leadership development opportunities.
• Wellness supports, including counselling, critical incident and innovative wellness services are available to employees and their immediate families.
• Award‑winning recognition programs to honour staff, medical staff and volunteers.
• Access to exclusive discount offers and deals for VCH staff.

At Vancouver Coastal Health, our vision of healthy lives in healthy communities inspires us and our values and pillars guide us. We support equitable practices, diverse teams and inclusive environments, which are vital to creating welcoming spaces where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and feel supported. We encourage applications from equity‑deserving communities, including Indigenous Peoples and members of racialized groups, people with disabilities and people of all gender identities and expressions and sexual orientation. Vancouver Coastal Health is proud to be recognized as one of BC’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers and Canada’s Top Employers for Young People in 2025.

Only short‑listed applicants will be contacted for this posting.

Employees of VCH must apply online via the Internal Career Portal on CareerHub, you are currently viewing the External Career Portal. Refer to the https://my.vch.ca/working-here/job-postings site for instructions on how to view internal job postings and how to apply as an employee. Current VCH employees who apply to this posting using this external site will be considered as an external candidate. Seniority will not apply.

Thank you for your interest in Vancouver Coastal Health.