MedStar Health is a healthcare organization seeking a Finance Business Partner Manager to collaborate with local CFOs and functional representatives. The role involves analyzing financial outcomes, supporting business leaders, and enhancing the system's financial position through effective financial management and operational insights.
Responsibilities:
- Provides direction and oversight of the annual operating and capital budget including but not limited to engagement with clinical and operational leaders to support desired business objectives by leveraging data to drive key insights and recommendations to senior leaders
- Assists in the preparation of the annual long-range financial plan through enhanced analysis and assessment of results. Seeks to identify opportunities and/or challenges to achieving targeted results
- Promotes the adoption and usage of key data within the general ledger MedStar Analytics Platform cost accounting and related systems to proactively identify opportunities and concerning trends that require attention
- Provides tactical oversight in the assessment of new business models supporting development of financial models that guide decision making
- Orients functional leaders to key financial reports and provides guidance on their use and applicability. Utilizes data-driven insights in support of identifying and implementing process improvement plans often leading implementation of these initiatives
- Actively participates in monthly quarterly and annual financial close cycles. Serves as liaison between Finance Centers of Excellence and front-line leaders to understand business results ensuring appropriate data collection & review as well as local operational relationships & insights to articulate issues or concerns with financial performance and support ad-hoc analyses. Works with the local CFO to explain the overall financial results of the entity
- Assists in building and retaining a high-caliber professional team essential to a high-performance organization including mentorship and succession planning. Assists in motivating and engaging staff leading change building trust and regional consistency and appropriately delating and empowering the team. Serves as a trainer and coach to the team as it relates to all job duties. Completes annual performance reviews and provides coaching to team
- Provides support for ad hoc requests from functional leaders at the local level seeking time sensitive information that is financial in nature. Relays local needs to central support colleagues to determine whether adjustments are required to recurring data and reporting packages based on requests originating from local teams
- Balances multiple deadlines and prioritizes work to ensure deadlines are met
- Serves as a primary local liaison to MedStar's Centers of Excellence and Shared Service groups to investigate financial and operational activity requiring operational insight. Communicates the needs of local team members and activity which may impact financial results (e.g. adjustments to standard reports activity which would trigger a Journal Entry etc.)
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree Finance Accounting Business Administration required
- 5-7 years Progressive experience in Finance or Accounting. Experience with financial modeling and analysis budgeting and forecasting required
- 1-2 years Experience managing people or a team required
- Strong analytical problem-solving and people management skills
- Ability to Prioritize problems in terms of strategic and possible long-term impacts
- Ability to Build effective internal customer and vendor relationships
- Understanding of Finance value drivers across business segments
- Understanding of Service-level management
- Understanding of Financial analyses and modeling techniques and tools
- Experience with Managing executive leadership relationships
- Master's degree MBA preferred
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Upon Hire preferred
- Knowledge of Excel Access PowerPoint Microsoft Outlook Tableau Hyperion and PeopleSoft preferred