Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for aFinancial Analystfor aContractassignment with one of our premierHealthcareclients inSan Francisco, CA . (100% remote)

Responsibilities:

Responsible for performing critical application and analysis functions in support of the clients Health's Financial Decision Support system, EPSi. The analyst plays a critical role in maintaining EPSi to ensure production of high quality, accurate and timely patient-level financial and clinical data for our Finance, and Operational business partners.
Responsibilities will include developing business cases, extracting cost data, billing data, patient demographic data, and other information from the Medical Center's cost accounting database, as well as from various other dashboards or other Business/Clinical Intelligence tools.
Develops highly complex queries and may take the lead on producing regular analyses and investigations of performance, utilization, clinical programs and financial analyses.
Regularly leads and acts as expert on project teams to develop and optimize tools and sources for modeling data.
Regularly leads projects and / or serves as an expert on teams involved with business development planning, budget, and other systemwide projects
Delivers consistently reliable and valid highly-complex financial and statistical information in the development operating budgets, including making recommendations to management to improve the budget-development process.
Collaborates with key personnel across departments to explain variances and to identify and resolve financial or procedural problems.
Establishes new metrics, systems, and processes to improve the value of decision support activities and efficiencies.

RequiredSkills:

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or a directly related field.
A minimum of 10 years of work experience in hospital or physician group finance, health insurance, health care consulting, or a related industry is required
Expert understanding of decision support systems, with knowledge of business statistics, quantitative methods, relational databases, business development scorecards, data modeling, and performance and profitability analysis.
Expert knowledge of issues and aspects of clinical finance, planning, financial data management, budget development, and business development. Strong proficiency in utilizing the tools to produce comprehensive, studies and actionable intelligence.
Advanced problem-solving skills analytical ability, and in-depth knowledge of documentation and reporting, with the ability to run highly complex queries and studies, to collect and analyze financial and performance data, and to produce relevant, meaningful reports, analyses, and forecasts.
Advanced data management and mining skills including ability to develop and execute highly complex SQL queries and stored procedures to organize, transform and extract financial and clinical data for production of relevant, meaningful reports, statistics, analyses and forecasts.
A strong understanding of cost accounting concepts, as well as financial modeling techniques such as discounted cash flow/net present value and internal return on investment is required.

PreferredSkills:

EPSI cost accounting system or other hospital cost accounting system experience is highly desirable.

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at https://sgainc.com/ .

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