Finance Business Partner

At Childrens, the regions only full-service pediatric healthcare center, our people make us the very best for kids. Come cultivate your passion, purpose and professional development in an environment of excellence and inclusion, where team members are supported and deeply valued. Opportunities for career growth abound as we grow our services and spaces, including the cutting-edge Hubbard Center for Children. Join our highly engaged, caring teamand join us in providing brighter, healthier tomorrows for the children we serve. Children's is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer including veterans and people with disabilities.

A Brief Overview
The Finance Business Partner supports leadership in strategic and tactical decision making and managing financial performance through financial reporting, analyses, insight, and guidance. Works with various levels of leadership to develop, interpret and implement department or organizational strategies and initiatives. Builds strong working relationships and collaborates with a wide range of stakeholders.

Essential Functions

• Financial Support, Reporting & Analytics: 
• Develop, and maintain financial models. Analyze financial data, develop financial reports, and identify areas of potential improvement. 
• Provide financial information, insights, and guidance to leadership, including preparing and delivering presentations, analysis, and reports, as requested. 
• Collaborate with leaders on strategies for increasing efficiency and profitability. 
• Evaluate financial risks and opportunities and recommend appropriate actions. 
• Effectively communicates financial results, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions to leadership and other key stakeholders. 
• Monitor financial performance to ensure compliance with organizational goals and objectives. 
• Prepares, analyzes, interprets, summarizes, reports, and presents on the relevant entity, department, or program(s) financial performance, including income statement, statistical, ratio analysis, actuals vs. plan, revenue/volume and expense forecasts, budgets, staffing levels, and industry trends. 
• Becomes subject matter expert on current and emerging variances and trends for assigned area(s) and applies expertise to ongoing projects/initiatives. 
• Collaborate with leaders to ensure they have the tools necessary to make operating decisions and understand the financial implications of those decisions. 
• Meets with assigned business units and leaders on a regular basis. 
• Maintain a working knowledge of data sources to report findings accurately and efficiently in a meaningful and understandable manner. 
• Design, develop, and analyze queries, dashboards, and reports as requested. Financial Stewardship Engage in a business-partnering role with leaders to deliver positive business results. 
• Develops and executes on effective and efficient financial reporting and expense management processes. 
• Process owner for financial stewardship program including, but not limited to, volume, revenue, expense, and labor accountability programs. 
• Research and pursue best practices for metrics, tools, processes, etc. to increase overall engagement and enable stakeholders to better manage the financial performance of their business. Business Planning and Financial Pro-formas 
• Support various cross-functional initiatives. 
• Perform special projects and analysis as required. 
• Provide technical input to assist in development of project planning. 
• Develop financial models and analysis to be used in the strategic planning process, development of business plans, for capital planning/purchases, new initiatives, exit strategies, etc. Budget, Forecasting, and Projections: 
• Plays major role in volume, revenue, expense, UOS, and FTE budgets and forecasts, including liaising with assigned functions/stakeholders, creating overall budget targets and projections. 
• Collaborate with stakeholders and the Budget Program Manager to develop budgets and forecasts, gather data, compile, and provide budget inputs, provide insights and recommendations to support financial planning and a balanced budget. Prepare and review budgets and financial forecasts. FTE Requisitions and Labor Benchmarking: 
• Serves as Finance FTE requisition process owner. 
• Provides hiring leaders support through the FTE requisition process. 
• Plays a major role in the labor benchmarking process, meets with leaders to understand business operations, and impacts to peer comparison groups, benchmarking results, and labor hour standard targets. 
• Collaborates with stakeholders and the Labor & Productivity Program Manager to provide inputs, insights, and recommendations to the labor benchmarking process. 
• Reviews, analyzes, and interprets labor benchmarking results and communicates results with department leaders. Development: 
• Maintains knowledge of current trends and developments and a variety of healthcare concepts, practices, and procedures in the field. 
• Continuous evaluation of work processes, recommends improvements, and leads in implementation of approved changes. 
• Provides excellent customer service, develops strong relationships, and collaborates with others. 
• Interacts with various levels of leadership throughout the organization.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in business, management, healthcare, finance or related field Required

Experience Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in finance, financial analysis and reporting Required and
• Demonstrated experience working with financial systems, including operations, forecasting and modeling, analysis and budgeting Required and
• Analytical experience Required and
• Experience working in a healthcare setting Preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to work independently
• Analytical skills
• Detail-oriented
• Interpersonal skills
• Presentation skills
• Quantitative analysis planning
• Consensus building
• Critical thinking skills
• Ability to work with tight deadlines and identify priorities in a fast-paced, highly visible environment while maintaining attention to detail.
• Fosters creativity, innovation and divergent thinking in self and others.
• Ability to effectively implement change.
• Demonstrated experience teaching, mentoring and developing skills sets, where appropriate.
• Ability to take complex analytical data and synthesize it in reportable and understandable context.
• Strategic and forward-thinking
• Strong written and oral communication skills required
• Flexible and creative

Licenses and Certifications

• CPA certification, active or inactive status Preferred

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