Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford provides advanced, family-centered pediatric care supported by technology, research, and continuing education. The Financial Analyst III performs complex financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, performance monitoring, and management reporting, while supporting workforce planning and providing recommendations to executive and operational leadership.
Responsibilities
- Continues and improve enterprise workforce planning models, assisting in labor planning, productivity and efficiencies
- Aggregates FTE, productivity, and labor cost data from operating departments into a unified workforce planning model, identifying variances and improvement opportunities for FP&A and operational leadership
- Evaluates position requests for financial and staffing impact, prepares recommendation packages, and partners with HR and operational leaders to ensure requests align with budgeted labor plans and productivity targets
- Advises managers on financial planning, analysis and system development. Support managers by modeling financial impacts
- Assists in the development, implementation and management of financial systems, cost accounting systems and/or financial policies and procedures as appropriate
- Collaborates with auditors and accountants to develop and maintain internal controls for compliance with state and internal audit standards
- Provides information to internal/external auditors and management as requested
- Coordinates and participates in the preparation of various financial reports, business plans and analyses for management
- Develops budget or fiscal reporting formats
- Develops and revises methodologies for forecasting cost and revenues; develops and maintains electronic system to track the deviations between budgeted forecast and actual levels
- Develops or coordinates preparation of budgets, program narratives and finance plans; analyzes financial projections and assists managers in developing budget proposals
- Maintains liaison with operating department managers to advice departments regarding financial results, budget variances, internal controls and related financial matters
- Participates in the design and implementation of budget and financial system improvements
- Uses computer software to model resource scenarios
- Organizes and develops automated financial systems
- Plans, develops, and coordinates the preparation of financial analyses and reports including, but not limited to, operational and capital budgets, financial statements, statistical reports, cost analyses and other financial information for management
- Provides financial information which enables management to make informed long-term and short-term decisions
- Recommends procedures and implements corrective action wherever indicated in operations, areas out of compliance with hospital policy, internal controls and accounting policies, as assigned
- Reviews and/or prepares federal, state and other regulatory reports, ensuring compliance with established guidelines, as assigned
Skills
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree in a work-related field/discipline from an accredited college or university
- **Experience:** Six (6) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience
- * Ability to analyze and develop solutions to complex problems
- * Ability to analyze information, reach valid conclusions and make sound recommendation
- * Ability to apply judgment and informed decisions
- * Ability to apply sound independent judgment in the solution of complex financial problems
- * Ability to communicate complex concepts in simple form to non-finance users to understand the appropriate use and limits of the information provided
- * Ability to communicate effectively in written and verbal formats including summarizing data, presenting results
- * Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships
- * Ability to evaluate business operations to compute affect to budget and funding expenditures
- * Ability to manage, organize, prioritize, multi-task and adapt to changing priorities
- * Ability to model financial information and forecast data to arrive at conclusions
- * Ability to work effectively both as a team player and leader
- * Knowledge of computer systems and software used in functional area
- * Knowledge of financial forecasting techniques
- * Knowledge of local, state and federal regulatory requirement related to the functional area
- * Knowledge of principles and practices of budgeting and finance including the analysis and reporting of financial data
Benefits
- Continuing education
- State-of-the-art facilities
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