Enterprise Manager - Finance, Planning & Analytics

WVU Medicine; Union (WV); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SYSTEM West Virginia University Health System is seeking a mission-driven leader to manage a team of analysts delivering financial decision support for all system hospitals. You will oversee business plans, ad-hoc requests, 5-year forecasts, and monthly reporting to executive and department leaders.

The role requires advanced degrees or a strong track record in healthcare financial analytics, team leadership, and collaboration with IT and Strata teams to ensure data accuracy and actionable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or Hospital Administration with 5+ years of financial analysis and reporting.
• Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or Hospital Administration with 3+ years of financial analysis and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Manage team on complex and dynamic business plans for hospital towers, OR expansions, new services and procedures.
• Lead ad-hoc financial analyses and solve financial and statistical hurdles to support executive decision-making.
• Collaborate with CEOs, CFOs, and department leaders on budget planning and board-ready analyses.
• Direct the forecast and budget process, ensuring data integrity and timely delivery of reports.
• Coordinate data and assumptions with IT Systems and Strata teams for yearly rollover and validations.
• Oversee annual budget, price changes, payer mix, and cost-center adjustments.

Skills

Financial analysis

Team leadership

Project management

Data visualization

Communication

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration / Accounting / Finance / Hospital Administration

Master's degree in Business Administration / Accounting / Finance / 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

EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR LICENSURE:

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

OR

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

Preferred Qualifications

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR LICENSURE:

• Advanced Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Health Administration or related degree

Experience

• 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

• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Serve as a direct support to Director and AVP on special projects as needed
• 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.
• 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

• Office environment.

Skills And Abilities

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

Additional Job Description

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Exempt/Non-Exempt

Shift

United States of America (Exempt)

Company

SYSTEM West Virginia University Health System

Cost Center

675 SYSTEM Financial Planning & Analysis