Director Finance
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- Work location: Texas Health Dallas Core work hours: Monday – Friday; 8:00a-5:00p;
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas has advanced health care in North Texas for over half a century as one of the region’s most established hospitals. As an 875-bed, full-service hospital, we’ve served the Dallas community and surrounding areas since 1966 with a commitment to high-quality, compassionate care.
We specialize in cancer care, cardiology, neurosciences, women’s services, and emergency medicine. Our hospital is home to a renowned Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), a Comprehensive Stroke Center, and a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence. We also offer a wide range of outpatient services, including surgery, wellness programs, and advanced women’s imaging. In recognition of our commitment to innovation in women’s health, our Women’s Robotic Surgery program was recently accredited as a Center of Excellence in Robotic Surgery by the Surgical Review Corporation (SRC), a leading organization dedicated to advancing patient safety in surgery.
Texas Health Dallas is a Joint Commission-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center, Level I Trauma Center, and Comprehensive Heart Attack Center. We are proud to be a designated Magnet hospital and a top choice in North Texas for cancer treatment, emergency services, cardiac care, and bariatric surgery.
Job Qualifications
Clinical/Business Operations:
Staffing department based on volume making adjustments as necessary.
Managing payroll ensuring that time is being recorded and paid appropriately.
Minimize manual payroll corrections through weekly review of payroll data.
Ensuring employee attendance at town halls, brown bags, and employee forums.
Ensures the department complies with regulatory standards.
Manage day to day operations of payroll and documentation compliance departments.
Oversight of documentation compliance program performance.
Report results to Revenue Cycle Committee.
Through knowledge of cost accounting principles and concepts.
Ability to apply cost accounting concepts to products and patient encounters using medical coding terminology and Relative Value Unit (RVU) methods.
Processing weekly and monthly data for the decision support system.
Maintaining the decision support system with required structure and transaction maintenance.
Provide oversight of bi-weekly payroll processing.
Provide oversight of A/P function ensuring review and scanning of invoices and check requests.
Responsible for maintaining Meditract contract database.
Provide decision support reports including monthly statistic reports, productivity reports, overtime and contract labor reports and profitability reports.
Assist with the development of long range strategic planning including annual updates.
Develop business development plans to support needs of hospital, physicians and community.
Assist with new service line development in identified areas.
Service:
Customer Service: Timely follow through and response to issues or complaints. Develop and maintain effective relationships with internal and external clients. Ongoing education of staff on service expectations, including service recovery. Effective use of Leader Listening Rounds to proactively identify and resolve potential issues. Able to teach/explain cost accounting issues to non-finance staff. Capable of making professional presentations to staff, directors, and others as directed or required. Provide decision support data to leadership for critical focus areas and support leadership with development of facility and corporate presentations. Support clinical documentation specialist as needed with interaction with physicians and other departments. Set and meet goals for documentation accuracy and performance related to medical records, coding and reimbursement.
Patient Satisfaction: Patient satisfaction indicators have been met. Review patient satisfaction survey data to determine trends and develop/implement action plans to ensure high levels of satisfaction are maintained.
Quality and Performance Improvement:
Department specific: Create a mechanism for continuous quality improvement on the individual unit, to include at least one focused project per year in an area of need identified by the unit. Set and meet goals for documentation accuracy and performance related to medical records, coding and reimbursement. Support Revenue Cycle committee by acting as a resource to Revenue Cycle Chair. Assist in development, tracking and achievement of Revenue Cycle targets. Support committee members with data and analysis in regards to methods to improve efficiency and operations throughout revenue cycle.
Hospital based: Understand basic core measure standards and be able to describe how these measures relate to our strategic objectives. Develop a plan for incorporating core measure compliance into daily workflow. Develop a plan for educating, measuring, monitoring, and improving performance on the patient safety KPIs, including hand hygiene, patient identifiers, and timeouts if applicable. Create a mechanism for continuous quality improvement on the individual unit, to include at least one focused project per year in an area of need identified by the unit. Tier 2 observations with monthly reporting.
Financial Operations:
Volume targets have been met.
Revenue targets have been met.
Expense targets have been met.
Invoices processed in a timely manner.
Labor productivity at 95% or above.
Overtime and call back targets have been met.
Develops, monitors, adjusts and explains variances for operational and capital budgets for areas of responsibility.
Manage the approved budget through frequent and regular monitoring, implementation of effective written action plans to address variances, and implementation and adjusting strategies as needed to meet budgetary expectations.
Must have a complete knowledge of hospital financial accounting concepts to provide basis for operational analysis and annual operating budget preparation.
Supporting preparation of the annual operating budget for the hospital.
Develop and provide threshold capital planning integration into the annual operating budget.
Use of a variety of software tools to build long range planning and forecasting of PL and Balance Sheets.
Able to perform ad hoc analysis as needed for a facility or facilities, as directed.
Maintain and integrate premier database information into monthly operational and budget planning for facility.
Human Resource Management:
Timely completion of employee reviews.
Retention indicators have been met.
All mandatory training for staff completed.
Initial and annual competency assessment of staff completed timely.
Annual employee health screening of staff completed.
Ensure that all employees maintain current licensure, certification, and registry as required by their job.
Vacancy rate indicators have been met.
Employee engagement survey participation goals have been met.
Department engagement/partnership goals have been met and action plans have been completed.
Employee engagement results for direct management meet established targets.
Recognition of employees.
Ensure staff compliance with hospital and system policies.
Ongoing monitoring and management of staff performance using the disciplinary process as appropriate.
Promote professional growth, development and accountability in staff.
Identify leadership talent and actively develop leadership skills for future opportunities.
Professional Accountability:
Participates in hospital initiatives (i.e. fund raising events and community events).
Serves on hospital and system based committees as appropriate.
Maintains current licensure and certification as required by position.
Adheres to hospital and system policies.
Completes mandatory training and annual employee health screening timely.
Education
Bachelor's Degree Accounting, Finance or related business area Required
OR
MIS degree with 15 hours of accounting courses Required
Experience
7 Years accounting/finance experience Required
and
2 Years progressive leadership experience Required
Managerial Experience Strongly Preferred
Healthcare Experience Preferred
Licenses and Certifications
CPA - Certified Public Accountant Upon Hire Preferred
Skills
Strong PC literacy with full suite of Microsoft Office applications, including Access. Prefer experience with Crystal Reports and database maintenance. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Why Texas Health?
At Texas Health Resources, our mission is “to improve the health of the people in the communities we serve”.
As part of the Texas Health family and its 28,000+ employees, we’re one of the largest employers in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Our career growth and professional development opportunities are top-notch and our benefits are equally outstanding. Come be a part of our exceptional team as we improve the health of the people in our communities every day. You belong here.
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