Financial Manager - BIDMC Anesthesia (Hybrid)

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When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

Plans and organizes the department's annual operating budget. Provides accounting, financial information, and business analysis to senior management in the planning process. Performs centralized budget administration activities, including cost center budget reports, consolidated budget reports, and business performance metrics reports. Creates revenue and budget projections based on the annual capital and operating budget goals. Manages various aspects of the accounting function, including general ledger, accounts payable, purchasing, billing, inventory, and payroll.

The Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine provides a full range of leading-edge anesthesia services in all operating rooms, intensive care units, obstetric, and non-surgical procedure areas (including gastrointestinal endoscopy and electrophysiology) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston. Our first commitment is to provide compassionate, world-class care to all our patients. We are one of the top academic anesthesia departments in the US in clinical anesthesia and research, and as a Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospital, our educational programs are among the best in the country. The department is internationally recognized for both clinical care and research. Our renowned research program produces innovative work that is making major strides in improving patient care in anesthesia, critical care, pain, and headache treatment. We also have advanced innovative technologies in the field, including 3-D imaging and guided ultrasound to provide minimally-invasive, safe care for the most successful outcomes. Our department continues to grow and thrive in a culture of respect that supports the professional development and personal well-being of our staff. In addition, we have a strong commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and actively seek a diverse workforce that celebrates and honors the many cultures and perspectives represented by our staff.

Essential Responsibilities

• Prepares short- and long-range operating budgets and forecasts; prepares income and expense projections; analyzes past income and expenditure patterns to optimally forecast capital and operating budgets and identify flexibility for future fiscal planning.
• Monitors the overall budget to actual activities throughout the fiscal year and recommends changes to the budget, as appropriate. Supervises the management of expenditure levels of all funds.
• Creates and implements internal financial control systems, including designing worksheets, establishing financial databases, and developing custom reports to coordinate expenditure records and ensure that charges against units are accurate, applicable, not duplicated, and not over budget.
• Oversees and manages the MyTime and Payroll process.
• Supervises inventory management; maintains materials and supplies inventory, tracks purchases and usage.
• Has the authority to direct and support employee's daily work activities. Has the direct responsibility to undertake the following employment actions : hiring, termination, corrective action, and performance reviews. Direct Reports : 2-3 Indirect Reports : None
• Has full responsibility for planning, monitoring, and managing department budget.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Competencies

Decision Making : Ability to make decisions that are guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation. May make recommendations for solving problems of moderate complexity and importance.

Problem Solving : Ability to address problems that are varied, requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation using direct observation, knowledge, and skills based on general precedents.

Independence of Action : Ability to set goals and priorities for a functional area. May make recommendations for department policies, practices, and programs. The manager or Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.

Written Communications : Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English with internal and external customers.

Oral Communications : Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families, and external customers.

Knowledge : Ability to demonstrate full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures, and policies with the ability to use them in varied situations.

Team Work : Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.

Customer Service : Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.

Physical Nature of the Job : Light work : Exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently to move objects. Some elements of the job are sedentary, but the employee will be required to stand for periods of time or move through out the hospital campus.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.