Position Summary:

The Decision Support Senior Analyst provides financial and operational analysis, to enable management to make informed decisions, identify issues and monitor the strategic initiatives of the Health System. Utilizing Performance Analytics tools and other analytics applications, this position will develop dashboards and reports to measure and trend key performance metrics and present results in an analytical manner. Corporate areas supported by this position include, Service Line performance, Strategic Planning initiatives, Compliance, Managed Care Payor performance, Regulatory reporting, Purchasing Contract initiatives, and Revenue capture and resource utilization for the Medical Group.

Analyses include:

• Responsible for development of on-going reports to support new corporate initiatives, ensuring standardization of criteria across all facilities, efficiency of report design, and complete documentation of process, to facilitate routine updates and cross training to other members of the team.
• Development and on-going reporting of Service line performance dashboards, providing Year over Year and trending analyses of wRVU, productivity, volumes, cost per case, contribution margin and complications.
• Development of data extracts from DSS data warehouse to support 3rd party specifications, incorporating automation, reconciliation and audit steps and appropriate secure file transfer processes.
• Responsible for handling data requests, by reviewing and confirming requested information with requesting party, to ensure appropriate and relevant data is provided, in accordance with security and data governance policies.
• Coordinates Survey requests with appropriate leads to ensure timely completion and without duplication of efforts.
• Reconciliation of wRVUs, volumes, charges, net revenue and expenses, ensuring accuracy of reports and system data integrity.
• Assists with data integrity analyses to ensure accuracy of data within the decision support data warehouse, by auditing results to source system

Strong analytical skills, knowledge of professional billing and reimbursement, and the ability to produce meaningful reports, is critical to this position. In addition, this position will assist with data integrity analyses to ensure accuracy of data within the Analytics database.

This position reports to the Senior Manager, Decision Support, and will work closely with other members of the Decision Support team.

Travel between the RWJBarnabas Health locations may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting required. 3-5 years experience in Healthcare Industry. Master’s degree a plus.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Advanced knowledge of Excel, and strong analytical skills required
• Knowledge of Strata Analytics, SQL, Tableau or other Business Intelligence tools, a plus.
• Must be detail-oriented and demonstrate ability to analyze large amounts of data, and present a meaningful format.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.