Financial Director
Company: Mass General Brigham
Location: Somerville
Posted on: September 13, 2023
Job Description:
Summary At Mass General Brigham Digital, we pride ourselves on
our ability to create maximum strategic, clinical, and operational
value from established and emergent technologies for our patients,
care teams, researchers, and employees. Digital health will not
only enhance the equity and efficiency of healthcare delivery, but
it will also help make medicine more personalized and precise. We
recognize that increasing value and continually improving quality
while maintaining an inclusive focus are essential to
organizational excellence, and we invite you to join us on this
journey. The work we do in Digital is a strategic imperative, and
there is a strong and growing understanding of how together we will
transform Mass General Brigham in innovative and impactful ways.
Reporting to the VP of Finance and Admin Systems, The Director of
Financial Planning and Analytic Systems, in conjunction with the
operational and functional governance committee(s), will design and
develop the vision, strategy and approach for the finance and
administrative applications, tools, processes, and functions. They
will work closely with the business sponsors to evaluate priorities
and set strategy for future application direction. Principal Duties
and Responsibilities
- Administer and manage the Budget, Financial Planning, Decision
Support/Cost Accounting, and other reporting/analytic platforms,
applications, and tools, including, but not limited to, Hyperion,
IBM Cognos Planning, Strata EPSi and related tools and
infrastructure.
- As other applications and tools are identified or acquired that
fall into the category of financial and administrative
applications, they may be added to the portfolio of applications
managed by this role and team.
- Manage the development and submission of data extracts mandated
by government and regulatory organizations including the Boston
Public Health Commission (BPHC) and the Massachusetts Center for
Health and Information Analyses (CHIA) and requested by various
quality organizations.
- Liaison between external organizations and MGB
- Actively participate on external committees
- Oversee the successful submission of data
- Create and develop the governing and management policies,
procedures, and processes for implementing, deploying, managing,
and supporting the associated functions, applications, and
tools.
- Oversee the processes and resources needed to manage and
support of all the platforms, applications and tools related to
financial, administrative, and related functions. This position
will work closely with resource managers within the larger team to
secure additional resources needed to support the
applications.
- Manage the pipeline of new demand, balancing resources,
dependencies, budget and risk accordingly. Lead technology
evaluations to meet new demand and onboard new technologies as
required
- Provide on-going project status reports to internal Digital
management, user groups and Executive steering committees.
- Keep current and up to date on technology and configuration for
all relevant and related systems.
- Assign/delegate project assignments as appropriate. Provide
project-specific direction and guidance to project team members to
facilitate timely and quality results. Monitor quality of work
performed by team members throughout the project lifecycle.
- Provide quality customer service and serve as an exemplary
representative of Mass General Brigham Information Systems;
on-going communication, feedback, and follow-through with business
owners, stakeholders, user community, direct reports, managers, and
peers are essential.
- Performs other duties and special projects as assigned by
Department Management. Qualifications
- Master's degree desired, but not required in lieu of equivalent
experience.
- Ten or more years of relevant experience in managing
information systems in healthcare organizations. Prior information
systems leadership experienced preferred.
- Experience in healthcare related budgeting, planning and
decision support systems such as TSI, Strata EPSi/Jazz or Synyellis
is highly desired. Skills, Abilities and Competencies
- Ability to demonstrate Mass General Brigham's Leadership
Competencies for both Performance Focused Leadership and
People-Focused Leadership
- Performance Focused :
- Customer/Patient Focus: Building strong customer/patient
relationships and delivering customer/patient centric
solutions
- Manage Complexity: Make sense of complex, high quality, and
sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve
problems
- Cultivate Innovation: Create new and better ways for the
organization to be successful
- Ensure Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to
meet commitments
- Learning Agility: Actively learn through experimentation when
tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as a
learning folder
- People Focused:
- Drive Equity and Inclusion: Recognizes the value that different
perspectives and cultures bring to an organization
- Build Effective Teams: Build cohesive teams that apply their
diverse skills and perspective to achieve common goals
- Collaborate: Build partnerships and work collaboratively with
others to meet shared objectives
- Communicate Effectively: Develop and deliver multi-mode
communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique
needs of different audiences including senior system and hospital
administrators, physician leadership, technician staff, and other
personnel across different institutions
- Instill Trust: Gain the confidence and trust of others through
honesty, integrity, and authenticity
- Deep understanding of information technology concepts,
strategies, approaches. Knowledge of relevant health care software
for clinical, financial, administrative, and research use.
- Demonstrated skill and experience in large project management,
negotiating/contracting, strategic planning, analytic thinking, and
human resources management.
- Executive presence including excellent oral and written
communication skills.
- Ability to carry out duties with a high degree of customer
service, communication, teamwork and timeliness.
- Experience managing large operating and capital budgets.
- Adept at working in a highly matrixed organization. Supervisory
Responsibilities and Fiscal Responsibility
- Supervises several managers and staff.
- 8 - 12 FTEs supervised
- Manages the capital and operating budgets for the applications,
platforms or services.
- Responsible for managing a budget amount of $2.0 - $2.5 million
dollars. Working Conditions The work environment characteristics
described here are representative of those an employee encounters
while performing the essential functions of this job.
- This position is hybrid and requires some onsite working days
as Assembly Row or Local MGB Sites, either weekly or occasional
travel to MGB sites, vendors, and/or conferences
- The Hybrid working model can be flexible, i.e. 1 day per week
onsite or multiple days per month or quarter, as business need
requires, candidate must be flexible to consider business needs as
onsite work could fluctuate
- Hospital work environment working conditions include possible
exposure to diseases or infections and may require safety gear
(PPE) such as gloves and mask.
- Normal office working conditions. The noise level in the work
environment is quiet to moderate.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is
frequently required to sit; talk; or hear; use hands to finger;
handle; or feel; reach with hands and arms. The employee is
occasionally required to stand; walk; and stoop; kneel; or crouch.
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 5 pounds and
occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close
vision, distance vision and depth perception. Diversity Statement
As a not-for-profit organization, Mass General Brigham is committed
to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the
community. We place great value on being a diverse, equitable and
inclusive organization as we aim to reflect the diversity of the
patients we serve. At Mass General Brigham, we believe in equal
access to quality care, employment and advancement opportunities
encompassing the full spectrum of human diversity: race, gender,
sexual orientation, ability, religion, ethnicity, national origin
and all the other forms of human presence and expression that make
us better able to provide innovative and cutting-edge healthcare
and research. Mass General Brigham is an Equal Opportunity
Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we
choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration
for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed,
national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual
orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other
status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals
with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to
participate in the job application or interview process, to perform
essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and
privileges of employment.
Keywords: Mass General Brigham, Somerville , Financial Director, Executive , Somerville, Massachusetts
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