Senior Decision Support Analyst - Cost Accounting

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• Performs cost accounting system development and maintenance, including design and implementation of process improvements and advanced methodologies

• Performs a broad range of financial analysis for assigned areas

• Conducts complex financial analysis upon longitudinal patient conditions and services as assigned

• Develops and maintains analytical methodologies, tools, and data

• Provides technical expertise to other staff involved in data analysis; acting as a liaison between finance and operational/clinical leaders to ensure they have relevant tools and data and understand how to use them

• Serves the organization as technical and subject matter expert for areas in which they work

• Mentor and support team members on the monthly cost accounting process, assist in answering their questions as they grow their experience

• Leads complex projects, often serving in the role of project manager

• Proactively brings forward utilization, cost variation, or other financial opportunities

• Acts as liaison to clinical and operational leaders and build connectivity and partnerships with other support partners

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, health informatics, computer science, management information systems, statistics, or technology/healthcare related field

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience working in healthcare accounting, data development, and data analysis

• Prior experience in healthcare, financial or EMR systems, including business intelligence tools. Examples include, but are not limited to: Registries, Slicer/Dicer, Crystal Reports, SQL, Tableau, Qlik, MS Excel (intermediate to advanced), other analytic toolsets

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience with healthcare cost accounting and decision support systems (StrataJazz, EPSi)

• Experience with healthcare general ledger, revenue cycle, coding and classification systems, reimbursement systems and methodologies

• Experience with understanding clinical language, clinical classification methods and tools and appropriately connecting longitudinal clinical population data to associated financial data

• Experience building end user analytical tools such as Tableau, Power BI, other reporting tools

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• This position functions 100% remotely, however, preference will be given to candidates who sit within our service areas (Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin)

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