Enterprise Manager - Finance, Planning & Analytics

WVU Medicine; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

WVU Medicine is seeking a senior leader to manage a team of analysts delivering financial decision support across system hospitals, including business plans, forecasting, and monthly reporting for executive and department leaders.

The role partners with CEOs and CFOs, driving complex analyses, proformas, and strategic initiatives, and leading data quality, system implementations, and performance metrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years in financial analysis and reporting.
• Master’s degree with 3+ years in financial analysis and reporting.
• Advanced degree preferred in business, finance, accounting, or health administration.
• Healthcare industry experience with planning, forecasting, budgeting.
• Experience leading critical improvement projects and new systems implementation.
• Proficiency with Workday, Epic, StrataJazz and Tableau.
• Experience working with executive leadership.
• Management experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage team on complex and dynamic business plans for hospital towers, OR expansions, new services and markets.
• Lead ad-hoc financial analyses and proformas to support executive decision making.
• Collaborate with CEOs, CFOs, and department leaders for board preparation and strategic approvals.
• Recommend optimal analysis approaches, populations, services, and hospital targets.
• Coordinate data readiness and annual forecast/budget data with IT and Strata teams.
• Oversee forecast assumptions, debt/insurance schedules, and system allocations.
• Guide yearly budget season and ensure accuracy of Strata statistics and revenue reports.

Skills

Team leadership

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Budgeting

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or Hospital Administration

Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or Hospital Administration

Tools

Workday

Epic

StrataJazz

Tableau

Job description

The primary focus of this position is to manage team of analysts who perform financial decision support functions for all system hospitals, serving executive leaders, and department leaders in their decision‑making process. Including, but not limited to business plans, ad‑hoc financial requests, 5‑year forecast, system statistic measures, and monthly reporting.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or Hospital Administration AND Five (5) years of experience in financial analysis and reporting.
• Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or Hospital Administration AND Three (3) years of experience in financial analysis and reporting.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Advanced Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Health Administration or related degree
• Experience in a healthcare industry with business planning, complex financial analyses, forecasting, and budgeting
• Experience leading critical projects such continuous improvement projects that work towards efficiency/productivity improvement, integrity of data, implementation of new systems
• Experience with Workday, Epic, StrataJazz, and Tableau
• Experience working with Executive Leadership
• Management experience

CORE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Manage team on complex and dynamic business plans for hospital towers, OR Expansions, new services and procedures, expansion of signature lines into new markets, new ancillary modalities and capabilities.
2. Manage team on complex ad-hoc financial analysis and solve complex financial and statistical hurdles, to support assigned hospital executive leadership in the decision‑making process, via full scope financial, statistical, and variance analysis and developing proformas
3. Work directly with all system hospital executive leadership, including CEOs and CFOS, and department leaders on business planning and ad‑hoc financial analyses to support their decision making and give them optimal support for board presentations and approvals
4. Make recommendations to team and to requestors as to the optimal way to analyze the financials of request, identifying the appropriate populations, services, physicians or hospitals to model after.
5. Manages all pre‑preparatory work for the forecast and budgetary process, by getting systems set‑up with accurate financial information by working with IT Systems team and Strata team for yearly rollover of data. Leads team in validations of all data.
6. Works with system leadership and accounting offices to establish all forecast –assumptions, and coordinate receipt of all debt, insurance, and interest schedules, and system allocations. Ensures team is aware of and utilizes all assumptions appropriately for assigned hospitals.
7. Manages and leads team through the yearly budget season, prepares all data and ensure Strata global statistics is functional and accurate, and that all gross revenue reports are ready. Prepares budgetary deadline calendar and drives to meet all deadlines. Guides team through all price increases, payer mix, or cost center adjustments.
8. Directs all system statistical metrics, through optimization, consistency, and working with key stakeholders to create and maintain and system of metrics that is useful for measuring performance and benchmarking within the industry.
9. Manages and leads financial and statistical onboarding of all new hospitals, building platforms, reports, and databases, integrating them into the Strata Decision Support systems, and training all new hospital employees
10. Seek out areas for improvement to data and data retrieval with Strategic Analytics, and Epic teams to implement and drive improvements to data for analyzing
11. Serve as a direct support to Director and AVP on special projects as needed
12. Takes a leadership role in contributing positively to the teamwork of the department by assisting co‑workers, contributing ideas, and problem‑solving with co‑workers.
13. Takes a leadership role in performance improvement through planning and implementing change and maintaining and improving productivity through attendance and participation in staff meetings, committees, task forces, cross functional groups, projects and discussions with hospital management and staff

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be able to sit for extended periods of time.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT:

1. Office environment.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

1. Ability to provide support for dynamic, complex financial analyses
2. Ability to lead projects and other team members
3. Strong organization skills, attention to detail, and analytical aptitude
4. Ability to multi‑task and work in a challenging deadline driven environment
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6. Independent work and analytical thinker with the ability to conduct research, data analysis, and resolve issues.

Additional Job Description:

• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
• Shift: Exempt/Non-Exempt: United States of America (Exempt)
• Company: SYSTEM West Virginia University Health System
• Cost Center: 675
• SYSTEM Financial Planning & Analysis

The West Virginia University Health System is West Virginia’s largest health system and largest private employer, providing care to communities across West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The integrated academic health system includes 25 hospitals and five institutes, with more than 3,500 licensed beds, 4,000 clinicians, 39,000 employees, and $8.5 billion in annual operating revenues. Anchoring the system in Morgantown, West Virginia, are WVU Hospitals, an 880‑bed academic medical center, and the 150‑bed WVU Medicine Golisano Children’s Hospital. Together, the Health System’s hospitals, clinics, and specialty programs provide a comprehensive continuum of care, ranging from community‑based primary and specialty services to highly complex, quaternary care and post‑acute care.