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Assistant Vice President of Finance

Northwest Permanente is welcoming applications for an Assistant Vice President of Finance to manage the NWP Finance, MySchedule and NWP IT department, and support Executive Leadership in identification, evaluation and implementation of corporate development opportunities. Responsibilities include: driving processes and analytics that support the regional operating and capital strategic financial plans, multi-year projections, quarterly re-forecasts of the financials, budgets, proactive monthly analysis of results and leading specific initiatives including business cases and performance reporting. This position is typically targeted as successor to CFO.

Responsibilities include:

  • Driving processes and analytics that support the regional operating and capital strategic financial plans, multi-year projections, quarterly re-forecasts of the financials, budgets, proactive monthly analysis of results.
  • Leading specific initiatives including business cases and performance reporting.
  • Identifying and evaluating business cases and opportunities for corporate development in collaboration with multiple Regional departments including Strategic Planning, Sales and Marketing, HP Financial Planning and Analysis, and Medical Operations.

NWP Finance Department

  • Responsible for Performance Management (Decision Support), Performance Reporting, Forecasting and Financial and Mitigation planning.  Supports operations and NWP Executive Leaders to provide objective, informed analysis and forecasting to ensure profitable growth and financial trajectory. Responsible for financial and analytical requests from Program Office related to the medical group.
  • Leads development of NWP’s Business Performance and Care Delivery Analysis, Operating and Capital Financial Forecasts, Operating and Capital Business Plan and Budget.
  • Organizes and manages the analytics involved in the capital approval process within the organization. 

NWP Scheduling System (MySchedule)

  • Responsible for the daily configuration of the scheduling system for KPNW.  Provides training and daily support to the NWP Access Management Team and HP staff schedulers. 

NWP IT Department

  • Responsible for the department providing hardware support for NWP employees and maintenance of servers.

MAJOR ACCOUTABILTIES / ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

  • Responsible for organizing staffing and executing the processes that produce the NWP operating and capital budgets, multi-year cost projections, revised forecasting of expected care delivery results for the current year, care delivery business cases and cost/benefit analyses, and monthly analysis of care delivery related performance results and mitigation requirements.
  • Responsible for ensuring that actionable financial information is continuously being improved, updated, and delivered to provide relevant measurements to the Care Delivery Operations organizations to drive results to close budget gaps
  • Responsible for the maintenance and support of the scheduling system, and for all enhancements and system upgrades to the scheduling system for all KPNW operating departments. Maintains the interface between the scheduling system and the HRIS system to support accurate payroll transmission.
  • Responsible for maintenance and backup for NWP servers.
  • New Business Ventures: Oversee financial analysis of projects associated with business development opportunities and new ventures.  Works collaboratively with other Permanente Medical Groups to identify and implement shared services to improve service and cost trends, and to identify and implement new ventures to generate revenues for NWP.
  • Collaborates with Health Plan on evaluation of new products and benefits evaluation
  • The incumbent is responsible for ensuring that appropriate policies are developed for his/her area, and aligning those with the overall organizational goals.
  • The position is responsible for recruitment, and placement of professionals within the Finance and MySchedule departments.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

  • Masters in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or Health Care Administration
  • Ten (10) year’s in financial planning
  • Seven (7) year’s management experience in directing complex financial organizations
  • Successful development of operating budgets, capital plans, financial forecasts, business cases and complex analytics.
  • Experience and confidence in advising and presenting to senior executives.
  • A deep knowledge of and experience in financial planning and analysis processes to enable incumbent to analyze complex operating budgets, capital appropriation requests and other business proposals.
  • Must be highly capable in developing and leading financial models and analytics.
  • Demonstrated proficiency for systems thinking.
  • This position requires an outstanding performance in these key competencies:
    • Change Leadership: ability to energize and alert groups to the need for specific changes in the way things are done. It involves impact and influence which is the ability to communicate one’s ideas or positions to a diverse audience in a persuasive manner to engender support or agreement.  It involves communicating effectively to ensure that others hear, understand and feel empowered to accept organization goals.  It is also the ability to be proactive and aggressive in thinking about new ways to do things that will impact performance in to the future, no matter how uncomfortable or different from the usual ways.
    • Excellence Orientation: focus on setting challenging objectives, finding better or more efficient ways of accomplishing strategic business results and continuously raising the standard of excellence.  The emphasis is not just on accomplishing targeted results, but surpassing predefined expectations and goals.
    • Strategic Thinking: represents the scope in which Leaders think and act to achieve business objectives. This competency includes knowing what is happening in markets and the ability to identify how changes and “outside forces” impact the organization.  At the highest level, individuals proactively develop, communicate and monitor progress toward targeted strategic-initiatives.
    • Developing Future Leaders: the desire to ensure that the organization’s future leadership requirements are met. Specific actions are taken to develop others to step into future leadership positions through creating development plans, coaching, and empowering others to take on greater responsibility.
    • Team Focus: the intention to take a role as a leader of a team or other group, as well as to participate as an effective team member.  Fosters an environment that encourages teamwork.  Uses strategies to make teams work better, such as increasing clarity through improved communication.  Creates a shared vision and direction that unites the team.
    • High-impact Communication: the ability to create enthusiasm for new initiatives or change efforts to gain support, sponsorship and commitment from key clients/stakeholders and team members. It involves proactively creating opportunities for open, two-way communication with others.  Seeks the involvement, feedback and opinions of people who will be affected by a change or decision to gain their buy-in.  Communicates with customers in a way that consistently demonstrates an orientation of customer service.  The ability to articulately present the results of his or her work and to effectively represent the challenges faced and resolved during task performance.  The ability to communicate directly and honestly with individuals regarding difficult issues.  Ensures that audiences have a clear understanding of specific goals and objectives and the rationale for decisions/actions.
      • Requires proficiency in Microsoft Programs (Word, Excel PowerPoint) and Database.
      • Ability to navigate network environment, familiarity with transforming reports, data and graphs into presentation that communicate, is comfortable in a network environment (accessing servers, using modems, e-mail, developing electronic databases).  Experience with Microsoft PowerPoint and Project Management Software is desirable.  Query and report development experience with data marts and decision support databases.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

  • Extensive knowledge of the health insurance industry including health care delivery systems and Medicare and Medicaid programs.
  • Knowledge of physician compensation and payment models, contracting for physician services and/or with hospitals. 

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