Revenue Cycle Analyst, Lead

$68,578 - $115,752/Yr

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center - Pittsburgh, PA

Full-time - Mid Level

Pittsburgh, PA

Hospitals

About the position

The Lead Revenue Cycle Analyst at UPMC Corporate Revenue Cycle is responsible for conducting detailed analysis and evaluation of financial and operational key performance indicators. This role focuses on the annual operating budget, financial performance, vendor management, and cyber security initiatives, while also delivering financial, statistical, and operational reporting projects. The position allows for a hybrid work schedule and requires collaboration with various teams to improve outcomes and ensure compliance with protocols.

Responsibilities

• Stay current with changing payer and/or market drivers affecting Revenue Cycle and proactively evaluate impact on reporting needs.
• Lead meetings with senior Revenue Cycle, Finance and Clinical Administration management to present key metrics, review key drivers of Revenue Cycle outcomes and develop action plans to address identified issues.
• Develop and implement new self-service and/or visualization tools designed to more effectively deliver enhanced reporting solutions.
• Responsible for the distribution of work assignments for their team as well as workflow management within their team.
• Lead efforts to prepare complex financial/operational reporting metrics, validating the quality and accuracy of the data, and ensuring that reports are published according to pre-defined delivery dates.
• Accurately classify and record financial transactions and events in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, where appropriate.
• Collaborate with Revenue Cycle operational teams to review business processes and identify opportunities for improved outcomes.
• Facilitate audits of revenue cycle operations to ensure compliance of published revenue cycle protocols.
• Lead efforts to extract and analyze complex financial/operational data set(s) for assigned book of business, including proactive determination of root cause drivers of significant variance.
• Analyze and identify trends and issues and work with appropriate personnel/departments to resolve.
• Effectively manage the reporting team request intake process, including timely acceptance of assignments, appropriate prioritization of project requests, and feedback to requestor regarding status/delivery date.
• Ensure that all financial/operational reporting processes follow the prescribed data integrity & controllership protocols, including adherence and compliance with Sarbanes Oxley controls.
• Serve as a process expert and provide training and support to other Revenue Cycle Analysts.
• Mentor and supervise day to day responsibilities of a minimum of two finance staff.
• Create high-quality, executive-level presentation material summarizing key projects, issues, and/or reporting metrics.
• Promote a culture of collaborative, customer-focused service delivery with both internal and external team resources.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in finance or related business field required.
• Minimum of five years of related work experience required.
• CPA/MBA preferred.
• Experience in the health care industry preferred.
• Prior experience leading/supervising staff preferred.
• Microsoft office with emphasis on spreadsheet application required.
• PeopleSoft General Ledger proficiency preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in the health care industry preferred.
• Prior experience leading/supervising staff preferred.