Description
JOB PURPOSE OR MISSION: Collects and prepares cost data, analyses fiscal accounting and related systems, regulatory submissions, preparation of and presentations for budget and reimbursement and financial feasibility studies.

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

CRITERIA A: Everyday Excellence Values - Employee demonstrates Everyday Excellence values in the day-to-day performance of their job.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
•Demonstrates courtesy and caring to each other, patients and their families, physicians, and the community.
•Takes initiative in living our Everyday Excellence values and vital signs.
•Takes initiative in identifying customer needs before the customer asks.
•Participates in teamwork willingly and with enthusiasm.
•Demonstrates respect for the dignity and privacy needs of customers through personal action and attention to the environment of care.
•Keeps customers informed, answers customer questions and anticipates information needs of customers.

CRITERIA B: Corporate Compliance - Employee demonstrates commitment to the Points of Integrity and the GHS Corporate Compliance Guidelines.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
•Practices diligence in fulfilling the regulatory and legal requirements of the position and department.
•Maintains accurate and reliable patient/organizational records.
•Maintains professional relationships with appropriate officials; communicates honesty and completely; behaves in a fair and nondiscriminatory manner in all professional contacts.
CRITERIA C: Personal Achievement - Employee demonstrates initiative in achieving work goals and meeting personal objectives.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
•Uses accepted procedures and practices to complete assignments. Uses creative and proactive solutions to achieve objectives even when workload and demands are high.
•Adheres to high moral principles of honesty, loyalty, sincerity, and fairness.
•Upholds the ethical standards of the organization.

CRITERIA D: Performance Improvement - Employee actively participates in Performance Improvement activities and incorporates quality improvement standards in his/her job performance.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
•Optimizes talents, skills, and abilities in achieving excellence in meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
•Initiates or redesigns to continuously improve work processes.
•Contributes ideas and suggestions to improve approaches to work processes.
•Willingly participates in organization and/or department quality initiatives.

CRITERIA E: Cost Management - Employee demonstrates effective cost management practices.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
•Effectively manages time and resources
•Makes conscious effort to effectively utilize the resources of the organization - material, human, and financial.
•Consistently looks for and uses resource saving processes.

CRITERIA F: Patient & Employee Safety - Employee actively participates in and demonstrates effective patient and employee safety practices.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
•Employee effectively communicates, demonstrates, coordinates and emphasizes patient and employee safety.
•Employee proactively reports errors, potential errors, injuries or potential injuries.
•Employee demonstrates departmental specific patient and employee safety standards at all times.
•Employee demonstrates the use of proper safety techniques, equipment and devices and follows safety policies, procedures and plans.

JOB FUNCTIONS

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS include, but are not limited to:

1. Assists with assigned financial projects:

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

•Performs and/or coordinates the design, documentation, and implementation of various integrated systems and applications for periodic and ad hoc financial reporting, utilizing complex electronic financial information from UNM systems and databases on a daily basis.
•Collaborates with and coordinates all components of the organization to ensure consistent reporting and adherence to federal and state financial reporting regulations and guidelines, and conformity with fiscal policies and procedures at all times.
•Analyzes, designs, documents, and implements internal financial reporting systems and procedures as needed.

2. Assists with analysis:

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

? Compiles and analyzes financial information from all components of the organizational
entities, and develops integrated revenue/expense analyses, projections, reports, and
presentations as requested.
? Coordinates, compiles an analyzes annual financial statements for the organization and its
component units, utilizing complex spreadsheet and database applications as requested.
? Provides leadership and coordination to various technical personnel engaged in specified
project activities, as appropriate.

3. Development of capital and operating budgets:

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:

•Coordination of system budget process and preparation of budget review packages for senior management and the Board of Directors within established timeframes.
•Designs, coordinates, and implements training programs for personnel within the organization and its components regarding the nature and application of accounting, budgeting, and business policies and procedures when appropriate.

4. Performs all other duties as assigned.
Requirements
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
Entry level to three years of experience in a financial setting. Experience in healthcare is preferred.

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor's Degree within a business or finance-related field, including finance, accounting, and business analytics, required. Master's degree preferred.

SPECIAL SKILL, LICENSE AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS
Advanced Excel; SQL; Access; Understanding of tables and database structures