Essentia Health

Senior Decision Support Analyst - Cost Accounting

Essentia Health • $81K — $122K *
Duluth, MN 55811In-Person
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, health informatics, or related field
  • 5 years of experience in healthcare accounting, data development, and analysis
  • Proficiency with business intelligence tools like SQL, Tableau, and Excel (intermediate to advanced)
  • Strong experience with healthcare cost accounting and decision support systems
  • Experience with general ledger and revenue cycle systems, as well as clinical classification methods

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain cost accounting systems while implementing process improvements
  • Conduct complex financial analysis on patient conditions and services
  • Create and manage analytical methodologies, tools, and data
  • Provide technical expertise in data analysis to operational and clinical leaders
  • Mentor team members on the monthly cost accounting process
  • Lead complex projects, serving as project manager
  • Identify financial opportunities related to utilization and cost variation

Benefits

  • 100% remote position with preference for candidates in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin
  • No weekend or holiday work required
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship
  • Dynamic work environment with a focus on healthcare decision support
Full Job Description
Building Location:
Peerless Building

Department:


Job Description:
The Senior Decision Support Analyst is responsible for the development, maintenance, and design specifications of healthcare cost accounting functions and report build utilizing the decision support system, benchmarking tools, and other business intelligence related tools. Supports and reinforces key initiatives within the organization through education and communication with clinical and operational leaders. Organizes and presents quantitative and actionable information to facilitate understanding and illuminate decision making for organizational leaders.

Education Qualifications:

Key Responsibilities:
  • 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


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


Licensure/Certification Qualifications:

FTE:
1

Possible Remote/Hybrid Option:
Remote

Shift Rotation:
Day Rotation (United States of America)

Shift Start Time:

Shift End Time:

Weekends:

Holidays:
No

Call Obligation:
No

Union:

Union Posting Deadline:

Compensation Range:
$81,889.60 - $122,844.80

About Essentia Health

Essentia Health is an integrated health system serving patients in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Idaho. It is guided by the values of quality, hospitality, respect, justice, stewardship, and teamwork. Essentia Health provides a wide range of medical services, including primary care, specialty care, hospital care, and long-term care. It also operates pharmacies, fitness centers, and other health-related businesses. Essentia Health has over 14,000 employees, including more than 1,800 physicians and advanced practitioners.
Learn more about Essentia Health
Size
14,000 employees
Industry
Healthcare
Net Income
$100 million
Founded
2004
5 Year Trend
+5%
Revenue
$5 billion
* Ladders Estimates

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