Position Summary
Under minimum supervision, the Director of Finance will direct and provide leadership for the Department of Emergency Medicine Financial/Administration functions which include; planning and fiscal management/analysis of all departmental budgets, financial reporting to leadership, clinical and research budgets, performance monitoring, contract negotiations, forecasting/cash flow management, capital spending and oversee other professional and technical staff engaged in budgeting, purchasing and fiscal operations. This includes ensuring our department is aligned with university accounting policies; ensuring accurate departmental financial reporting, monitoring of general ledger and operating ledgers, development of professional budgets and analysis of complex financial operations for multiple types of state, institutional, self-supporting, grant, service, foundation funds.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Department of Emergency Medicine Clinical Financial Operations: Clinical/Billing Revenue/Contracts/Budgets and Performance Monitoring: oversees the department's financial operations, ensuring fiscal responsibility, compliance, and strategic budgeting to support high-quality emergency care delivery. • Develop, manage, and monitor the department annual operating budgets, including revenue projections, cost controls, and capital expenditure planning • Demonstrates working knowledge of accounts receivable in order to analyze/evaluate and make recommendations for improvement (registration, denials, aged AR, etc.) • Analyze financial performance, track expenditures, and identify opportunities for cost savings or efficiency/revenue improvements along with Director of Administrative Operations • Meet regularly with WWT to review financial performance, Monitor EPIC workqueue's, provide reports; works collaboratively with WWT to improve work flows, standardization and corrective procedures • Oversee general accounting functions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, and cash flow management • Assist with the development of new revenue contracts as directed and revise/update existing unit contracts upon required renewal dates. • Implement internal controls to prevent fraud and ensure data security • Support compliance with healthcare regulations and accreditation requirements • Collaborate with ED leadership, hospital administration, and other departments to align financial planning with clinical and operational goals • Education and communicate at faculty meetings departmental performance, educate departmental personnel on multiple types of university accounts (state, self-supporting, MSP, foundation, etc) to maintain compliance.
- Department of Emergency Medicine Research Budgets/Pre/Post Awards: Provide 1:1 budget and analytic support to Faculty PIs and Faculty Researchers for the entire pre and post grant award operations this includes the lifecycle of a sponsored activity (both internal or external): development, monitoring and reporting of fiscal operations, budget adjustments, cost transfers, overdraft reconciliation, pre award processing/administration, contract approval process, research compliance, award and sub-award monitoring, grant effort and reporting system. Establishes subcontracts and invoices and tracks payments. • Interpret research funding opportunity announcements • Pre-Award subject matter expert • Develop complex, global, multidisciplinary research budget proposals for department PI's, which includes budget justifications; evaluation of project costs based on research project aims/proposed activities and problem solves grant submissions issues • Teach new PIs, departmental research project coordinators grantsmanship principles • Creates, reviews and approves University EPAFs prior to Department Head Signature; tracks and monitors all grant budgets within the department • Monitors and ensures compliance with University Effort Reporting • Co