Finance Business Partner

Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center - Tualatin - AYA; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 88,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Legacy Health seeks a Finance Business Partner to join its team and help steward financial performance across units. The role combines strong financial analysis with operational insight, partnering with executive leaders to drive informed decision-making.

The successful candidate will manage variances, perform proforma analyses on major projects, and provide on-site training to improve financial understanding among managers within the health system.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance or related field required.
• Master's Degree in Business Administration or Healthcare Administration, or CPA preferred.
• Minimum six years' work experience in accounting, financial analysis, or related roles.

Responsibilities

• Support financial performance and provide business insight to leadership.
• Identify variances and operational issues impacting performance using finance data.
• Provide training to leaders to improve financial management acumen.
• Attend management meetings as an active participant and advisor.

Skills

Financial analysis

Presentation skills

Project management

Data interpretation

Healthcare accounting

Communication

Multi-tasking

SQL/Query tools

Interpersonal skills

Team collaboration

Facilitation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance

Master's Degree in Business Administration or Healthcare Administration or CPA preferred

Tools

Relational databases

Spreadsheet software

Presentation software

Word processing

Data visualization tools

Job description

Overview

How can a financial business partner help to fulfill the Legacy mission of making life better for others? By ensuring that each operational unit achieves its respective goals according to sound financial practices. This goes beyond having good financial acumen; the financial program manager also must understand our clinical and data systems. Are you that special person who can combine solid knowledge of finances and operations to help us thrive? If so, please consider this opportunity.

Responsibilities

The Finance Business Partners are members of entity, service line or division executive teams and are responsible to steward and support financial performance. They provide business insight and perspective, manage financial performance, provide training and support to leaders to develop and support financial management acumen, and provide analysis and insight to evaluate current and future programs and services. They are a trusted advisor for all levels of leadership of the entities they support. They are embedded in their assigned entity or division.

The Finance Business Partner has responsibility for providing help with identifying and communicating financial target variances, operational issues impacting performance, proforma analysis on major projects, and ensuring that management has knowledge of and can access readily available data. They attend on-going management meetings as an active participant. They proactively identify finance issues and variances and facilitate proper corrective actions supported by finance data and analysis. They provide on-site support working with management to discuss specific issues or provide training so that managers are better able to interpret financial results. They act as advisor to senior management as well as providing expert knowledge to managers who are in the process of developing or modifying operating plans or processes.

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or related field required.
• Master's Degree in Business Administration or Healthcare Administration, or Certified Public Accountant preferred.

Experience:

• Minimum of six years' work experience as an accountant, financial analyst, financial/business consultant, and/or auditor or related area of responsibility or previous job experience at the Financial Program Manager level.
• Understanding of the healthcare environment with the ability to provide technical Leadership for Legacy Health System.
• Prior healthcare experience preferred.

Skills:

• Presentation experience at the senior management level required.
• Strong project management skills.
• Ability to perform comprehensive analytical tasks using appropriate computer tools.
• Demonstrated judgment in prioritizing projects and reaching appropriate analytical conclusions.
• Comprehensive knowledge of health care accounting systems and related support functions such as reimbursement, billing concepts, and health care operational and clinical practices.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, especially in a large group environment.
• Ability to manage multiple complex tasks.
• Proficient in computer skills, including relational databases, spreadsheet, presentation and word processing software, and query languages.
• Strong interpersonal communication and coaching skills.
• Teamwork oriented; promotes unity in achieving goals.
• Sound facilitation, consensus building and conflict resolution skills.

Pay Range

USD $63.68 - USD $94.88 /Hr.

Our Commitment to Health and Equal Opportunity

Our Legacy is good for health for Our People, Our Patients, Our Communities, Our World. Above all, we will do the right thing.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can grow and succeed.

Legacy Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits unlawful discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion or creed, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

To learn more about our employee benefits click here: https://www.legacyhealth.org/for-health-professionals/careers/benefits