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BSD UCF - Finance Analytics and Business Intelligence

About the Department

The Biological Sciences Division (BSD) and the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) are managed by a single Dean/Executive Vice President and comprises the largest unit of the University, accounting for 60% of its annual budget. All physician, hospital, and clinic services are managed through the Medical Center, which is a \$1.3 billion enterprise. The BSD includes the Pritzker School of Medicine, approximately 20 academic units, degree granting committees, and research centers and institutes. The BSD is located on the University\'s main campus in Hyde Park, ten minutes south of downtown Chicago. BSD\'s patient care operations are conducted primarily at the University of Chicago Hospital and clinics, which share the same campus. The University of Chicago Practice Plan (UCPP) is the central organization that supports the clinical activity of nearly 850 clinically active faculty practicing at the University of Chicago. These clinically active faculty collectively form the University of Chicago Physicians Group (UCPG). The University of Chicago Physicians\' Group (UCPG) is a component of the physician practice plan for the University of Chicago. The UCPG department provides billing services for medical services provided by University physicians and manages the accounts receivable collection and reporting processes for the Biological Sciences Division (BSD) departments. Each physician is a faculty member and is based in a specified department in the BSD.

Job Summary

The job provides specialized financial knowledge and breadth of expertise to serve complex departmental or divisional units enabling leaders to meet organizational needs, align with goals and accomplish strategic targets. Develops, manages, or interprets reports and data to make recommendations for revenue, budget, or similar department or divisional financial strategies.

The Manager is responsible for maintaining and enhancing decision support systems to provide a diverse range of data and analysis for sound business and clinical decisions. They will analyze, develop, implement, and deliver plans for improving data warehousing, business intelligence, and application solutions.

The Manager will be responsible for providing reporting and information to divisional and UCMC leadership by analyzing operational volumes, service utilization, and the organization\'s competitive position in the marketplace. The manager will use variety of different data sources, both internal to the company (patient encounter, financial) and external (hospital associations).

Has a comprehensive understanding of data and analytic tools as well as health care/revenue information systems and technology and has an advanced ability to apply these tools and methodologies to extrapolate data, analyze and report it in a meaningful format to inform and drive UCPG\'s performance. Interacts and communicates independently within divisional and hospital executives. Serves as a resource for data management and analysis. Supports project development, coordination, and evaluation efforts. Analyzes and interprets revenue cycle data. Specific functions include tool design, clinical data extraction, analysis and reporting.

Responsibilities

Oversee production of a variety of month end reporting packages that serve the revenue cycle management, staff, and clinical departments.

Oversee the updating and maintenance of the data fed to the Clinical Practice Solution Center (CPSC).

Field access requests to various internal dashboards and browser-based reports.

Act a training resource across the organization with respect to customized transaction, AR and denial cubes.

Perform a l manner of ad hoc data analysis involving revenue cycle data and metrics.

Work with BI programming staff to enhance and maintain assorted dashboards.

Support revenue cycle staff and clinical departments in the analysis of revenue cycle data and reports.

Act as a possible liaison to other consumers of UCPG data across the enterprise.

Develop an ability to use Strata (UCMC\'s decision support system) to augment analysis when necessary.

Support ongoing analytics related to compensation planning, including building presentations and doing ad hoc modeling and projections.

Process invoices, purchase orders, and any monthly and sporadic journal entries.

Assess, modify and/or develop and implement processes/procedures/systems to increase efficiency, accuracy and insightfulness of data analytics.

Conducts financial research to advance decision-making and communication for critical stakeholders. Solves financial problems by designing and executing regular and ad hoc financial analysis, including forecasting, risk analysis, and evaluation of strategic options.

Identifies critical areas for attention and analysis. Devises approaches for improving the general level of strategic and analytical thinking.

Serves as an experienced lia