Decision Support Analyst Senior - Decision Support

Summary:

Maintain, support and enhance all components of the Transition System Inc. (TSI) Decision Support System (DSS). Work with the Information Services TSI Data Base Manager to assure the integrity of all components of the system. Provide direct assistance to senior management by providing analyses and reports to support their routine and special decision making processes and needs.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, organize, and oversee the implementation of designated decision support applications, to include financial, clinical and costing data.
• Perform the daily/monthly extractions from the source systems to the decision support systems or business intelligence tools.
• Ensure effective integration of source systems with decision support systems by performing independent audits against feeder systems.
• Provide analysis to support business development, operations, and clinical improvement projects throughout the enterprise.
• Meet with administrative teams to develop appropriate reporting to support regional or corporate needs.
• Ensure data validity and integrity in associated databases.
• Provide regional application support and training when necessary or when requested.
• Ensure regional cooperation with CHRISTUS developed standards.
• Develop and maintain cost standards: includes training analysts who will provide assistance to department heads in developing cost standards for new products on services as well as documenting and monitoring related financial procedures.
• Review and test the reasonableness of cost standards developed: Includes developing procedures and programs which will facilitate monitoring the accuracy of detailed costs for approximately 50,000 items as well as working with department heads to resolve variance issues that arise.
• Develop and maintain sophisticated processes for allocation of overhead and indirect costs to replace current accounting processes.
• Develop and maintain reporting processes for cost center level reporting on monthly financial activity and roll-up summary reporting at all levels of management to replace current monthly accounting reports generated from the General Ledger system. Assure reports are run as scheduled, reports are distributed, and report inquiries are handled.
• Assists with data requests from hospital personnel using the ad hoc report writing function.
• Propose and implement policies, procedures and updates that might be necessary to assure data going into the Transition database is accurate.
• Share in the overall responsibility for the integrity of the data contained in the Transition data bases.
• Integrate DKD payment system’s reimbursement data into TSI and reconcile to the TSI data base on a weekly basis at a minimum.
• Develop capability to utilize TSI to assist in the preparation and review of corporate budgets. Work with Department Heads to develop and review cost center level budgets.
• Demonstrates competence to perform assigned responsibilities in a manner that meets the age-specific and developmental needs of the members served by the department.
• Appropriately adapts assigned assessments, treatment, and/or service methods to accommodate the unique physical, psychosocial, cultural, age-specific and other developmental needs of each member served.
• Takes personal responsibility to ensure compliance with all policies, procedures and standards as promulgated by state and federal agencies, the hospital, and other regulatory entities.
• Performs all duties in a manner that protects the confidentiality of patients and does not solicit or disclose any confidential information unless it is necessary in the performance of assigned job duties.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree required 

Work Schedule:

8AM - 5PM Monday-Friday

Work Type:

Full Time