Manager Budget and Financial Planning

Kootenai Health is in search for a Healthcare Budget and Financial Planning Manager to join our dynamic team!

Do you consider yourself a team leader with excellent communication skills? A detailed oriented, analytical, problem solver? Thrive on building, implementing new policies around Financial reporting and Volume reporting? If so, this is a perfect opportunity for you!

Responsible for leading activities and supporting the leadership team with preparation, monitoring and management of operating and capital budgets, long range financial planning, productivity management and cost accounting. Performs and manages financial and operational analysis, budgeting, forecasting, cost/profit improvement initiatives, revenue projections and other key performance indicators. Responsible for volume and financial projections and developing multivariate financial models on an ad hoc basis. Coordinates with the Chief Administrative and Financial Officer and Controller on actual performance versus budget/forecast management reporting and variance analysis. Reports directly to the Controller for financial review and optimization of duties while maintaining a matrixed supporting structure with the Executive Director of Strategic Planning & Business Development.

Responsibilities:

• Initiates, directs and assists in preparation, monitoring and management of operating and capital budgets, long range financial planning, productivity management and cost accounting
• Makes recommendations to assist in the management and processing of data/information to enhance knowledge and to support the finance leadership team
• Recommends changes that will be beneficial to improving financial outcomes
• Performs complex financial analysis and projections and assists directors and senior management in strategic financial planning and decision making related to the budget
• Analyzes financial and operational data, and develops financial models used to guide business decisions
• Develops guidelines for improvements in the budget development and financial planning processes
• Assists in managing scorecard capabilities and provides consultative financial services to leadership
• Analyzes and provides recommendations on complex issues relating to all financial matters
• Responsible for payer mix implications, contractual adjustments, and application of bad debt factors to aged patient accounts receivable
• Collaborates to acquire and analyze data to proactively develop data driven recommendations for best practices and resource utilization
• Serves in a leadership role to help eliminate redundancy, improve workflow, reduce variation, eliminate bottlenecks, increase throughput
• Manages and evaluates assigned staff, including hiring, training and providing appropriate feedback on performance

Requirements and Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field required
• Five years’ of finance/accounting experience required
• Healthcare Finance experience A MUST
• Three years’ healthcare finance experience required
• Experience using budget and financial planning software required
• MBA, CPA or other finance/accounting credential preferred
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

About Kootenai Health

Kootenai Health is a highly esteemed health care organization, serving patients throughout northern Idaho and the Inland Northwest. We pride ourselves on our outstanding reputation as both an employer and a health care provider. We have been recognized with many accolades and distinctions including being recognized as a Gallup Great Workplace, No. 1 Best Place to Work in Large Healthcare Organizations, and Magnet™ Status for Nursing Excellence.

As your next employer, we are excited to offer you:

• 100% employer-paid health insurance premiums for full-time employees. Part-time employees pay only a small portion a month for medical, dental, and vision coverage. Benefits start 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
• A tuition assistance program available after 90 days. If you want to further your education, we'll help you pay for it
• Kootenai Health will match your contributions in a defined contribution 457 retirement plan based on years of service ranging from 3-6 percent. Kootenai Health will contribute an amount equal to two percent of your gross earnings
• Competitive salaries with night, weekend and PRN shift differentials
• Robust and interactive employee bonus program
• An award-winning and incentive-driven wellness program. Including a MyHealth corporate team, onsite financial seminars and coaching
• Employees receive discounts at The Wellness Bar, PEAK Fitness, various cell phone carriers, and more
• And much more!

If you strive to be an integral part of a high-quality healthcare system like Kootenai Health, we want to meet you!

Apply today!

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