Finance Partner Enterprise Pharmacy (Pennsylvania resident)

Finance Partner

Our successful candidate will be a strategic Finance Partner to support our Enterprise Pharmacy team, with a focus on 340B program analysis and collaboration with Pharmacy Operations. This role offers the opportunity to support financial reporting, budgeting, economic modeling, and business plan development, while working cross-functionally to drive performance. Ideal candidates will bring healthcare finance experience, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in Excel, Workday, and Strata.

The Finance Partner will provide strategic and operational financial support for assigned business units and their respective leadership teams of Geisinger Health. This includes facilitating operating and capital forecasts, the long-range financial model, business plan financial models, monthly operating reviews, financial improvement initiatives, promotion of financial and operational benchmarking, and assures compliance with financial standards and procedures.

The position will be expected to be on site (Danville PA) on average one day per week to connect with operational teams in person.

Facilitates the business units targeted quarterly forecasting, capital forecasting and long-range financial model goals in partnership with operational leadership.

Actively participates in the business units' month-end financial close review and analysis process including understanding trends in volume, revenue, expenses, and balance sheet activity.

Leads a monthly operating review process for the business units including variance reporting and coordinates and supports development of remediation and corrective action plans with operations leadership for all material variances to plan.

Provides regular presentations of financial performance to internal (operational leadership).

Supports financial acumen education for business units' operational teams.

Leads implementation, education and communication of key financial management reporting tools such as monthly management, labor & non-labor productivity, and labor & non labor benchmarking reports.

Leads and promote financial performance improvement initiatives to reduce waste and improve overall financial performance.

Works extensively with operational partners as a main point of contact to analyze and understand business units' financial performance and increase financial acumen.

Works closely with the financial planning, strategic planning, operational leadership, and others in development of business plans and retrospective financial reviews of those plans for assigned business units.

Supports the business units' operational leadership with capital requests and prepares return on investment financial models to support these investments.

Works with the Financial Planning and Financial Analytics Teams to improve and promote accurate Cost Accounting methodologies for RVU development, indirect expense allocations and other cost accounting drivers related to the business units.

Collaborates with departments to appropriately optimize revenue performance and reporting.

Supports and participates in promotion of One Geisinger financial reporting that includes all business units

Provides key insights including timelines, process, systems and deliverables to the Financial Planning and Financial Analytics departments to improve their services to the business units.

Facilitates knowledge of changes in finance policies, guidelines, requirements, and rules and ensure communication and adoption by operational leadership to ensure appropriate internal controls.

Participates in finance department improvement projects and initiatives, including information systems and analytical tools / models, design, set up, implementation and stabilization.

Participates in special projects, reporting requirements, and committees as assigned to support finance and / or operational initiatives.

Supplements Financial Planning and Financial Analytics training of tools provided by these finance departments to the business units.

Develops and maintains strong business partner relationships across the Geisinger enterprise.

Actively seeks input from members of the management and finance teams when appropriate.

Supports colleagues throughout finance assuming positive intent and acting as an ambassador for all areas of finance when working with key stakeholders.

Collaborates with other leaders to promote the Finance Strategic Aspirations.

Important skills and experience :

Proven experience in healthcare finance, with a strong understanding of 340B analytics

Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills

Ability to communicate complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders

Experience with financial planning, reporting, and modeling tools

Experience with Tools & Applications :

Excel (advanced proficiency)

Workday

Strata (budgeting and economic model)

Education : Bachelor's Degree- (Required)

Experience : Minimum of 5 years-Related work experience (Required)

Our Purpose & Values : Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

Kindness : We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.

Excellence : We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.

Learning : We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.

Innovation : We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.

Safety : We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.

We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.