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We are seeking a Financial Analyst (Practice Plan) to:

• Interpret and communicate project details that support provider compensation and production statistics.


• Prepare statistic and workload productivity reports which includes review data and provide summaries.


• Support data infrastructures that provide ongoing reporting needs of Practice Plan Administration, including other professional billing system productivity metrics, School of Medicine and Public Health data, VA data, electronic benchmark data marts, etc.


• Proactively develop and maintain working knowledge including UW Health organizational structure, UW School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH), relationships with other functional areas, and stay abreast of industry standards, best practices, and government and externally reported healthcare regulations and metrics/benchmarks, including measurement programs.

Education:

Minimum – Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Healthcare, or related field. Five (5) years of relevant financial analysis experience may be considered in lieu of a degree in addition to the experience below.

Preferred – Master’s degree in Business, Healthcare or related field strongly preferred

Work Experience:

Minimum – Two (2) years of professional experience in progressively advanced financial, planning or analysis roles

Preferred – Four (4) years of professional experience in a health care business office setting with relevant business experience including one or more of the following:

• Physician compensation


• Budgeting and/or financial systems


• Data analysis and/or report application development


• Academic health care system

Licenses and Certifications:

Preferred –

• Epic certification in professional billing or Clarity


• CPC

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of the healthcare business environment, healthcare operations, market behavior, and economics from both a provider and managed care perspective.


• Understanding of financial accounting data in the context of healthcare.


• Strong technical, data handling and interpretive skills; ability to leverage analytics and reporting systems and large databases in creative ways to maximum advantage.


• Ability to manage multiple projects that require adequate planning and control of scope, timeline and customer communication.


• Produce well-structured, high-quality documents/reports that are based on sound methodologies.


• Ability to manage multiple concurrent activities, including time-sensitive recurrent tasks


• Able to work with a high degree of independence, research and resolve questions and problems, request supervisor input and keep supervisor informed.


• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including effective presentation skills with the ability to share data analysis findings in an understandable way to a variety of stakeholders, including non-technical stakeholders.


• Demonstrate professionalism surrounding data access, data security, data sensitivity, and data confidentiality.


• Effective interpersonal relations skills promoting teamwork and collaborative alliances.


• Able to navigate a large organization, including managing political sensitivities, to accomplish results.

Physical Requirements:

Sedentary: Ability to lift up to 10 pounds maximum and occasionally lifting and/or carrying such articles as dockets, ledgers and small tools.  Although a sedentary job is defined as one, which involves sitting, a certain amount of walking and standing is often necessary in carrying out job duties.  Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and other sedentary criteria are met.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

UW Health is committed to being a diverse, equitable, inclusive and ant-racist workplace and is an Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Our integrity shines through in patient care interactions and our daily work practices as we work to embrace the knowledge, unique perspectives and qualities each employee and faculty member brings to work each day.​  Applications from Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) individuals, women, and LGBTQ+ and non-binary identities are strongly encouraged. EOE, including disability/vets.

Work Schedule:

This is a full-time, 1.0 FTE position that is scheduled to work Monday through Friday between the hours of 7:30 am - 5:00 pm (flexible start/end times). Hours may vary based upon the operational needs of the department.

UW Health Administrative Facilities - UW Health has administrative locations throughout Madison and beyond where thousands of employees provide vital support to our clinical areas. These locations are home to departments such as Access Services, Compliance, Human Resources, Information Services, Patient Medical Records, Payroll and many others.

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