jobs description

The following is a list of minimally required behaviors to assist the employee in partnering with our community:

Ownership

• Accepts responsibility for actions, attitudes and health.
• Doing things right the first time, every time for excellent results.
• Accepts ownership of mistakes and takes constructive action to avoid repeating mistakes.
• Works with empowerment to the highest potential both as an individual and as part of the team.
• Unsatisfied with the status quo or just being “good.”
• Performs at the highest level, always learning and looking for ways to improve, with an unwavering focus on safety.
• Celebrates and encourages the contributions of one another.
• Constructively challenges the status quo by being flexible, adaptable and embracing change as a key element of our future success.
• Contributes to an environment that encourages creative thinking.
• Shares ideas and opinions, and supports opportunities to learn and grow.

Service First

• Doing our best every day to anticipate and exceed the expectations of patients, providers and co-workers.
• Understands excellence is the result of team effort.
• Creates legendary experiences.

Integrity

• Does the right things.
• Consistently open, honest, trustworthy and ethical.
• Demonstrates respect for patients, their families, staff, providers and the community.

Stewardship of Our Resources

• Strives to care wisely for our human, financial and natural resources.
• Strengthens the hospital as a partner in the community.

Position Summary

• Overall accountability for providing leadership, direction, and administration of financial activities, including accounting, financial systems and control, compliance, financial analysis, budgeting, and reporting.
• Participates in and/or leads various work around service lines, revenue integrity, discipline teams, etc.
• Oversees financial decision-making and serves as a member of the senior leadership team.
• Responsible for driving, supporting and modeling a service-oriented culture focused on employee engagement, quality, patient safety, service excellence, fiscal responsibility and the overall patient experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides leadership in the achievement of financial and operational performance objectives and expectations including revenue growth, operational margin targets, effective expense management and overall efficiency measures. This includes the use of analytical processes to assure the achievement of initiatives and the implementation of performance improvement opportunities in the areas of operational performance, clinical excellence, patient satisfaction and employee engagement.
• Provides leadership in evaluation and assessment of growth and operational initiatives as well as the evaluation, development and implementation of strategic programs and service lines, capital acquisition (including campus planning and future expansion) and technological investment. This includes the evaluation and assessment on future facility operations to ensure strong financial and operating outcomes.
• Supports the achievement of performance goals, defining accountabilities and providing advancement opportunities for future leaders. This includes the role of mentor for finance staff as well as increasing financial understanding throughout the facility in order to provide a framework for sound business decisions.
• This position is responsible for the overall financial and operational performance, compliance and viability of the facility, including the development of short-term and long-term business strategies, the deployment of effective resource utilization, the ability to make sound business decisions and a complete understanding of operations. This position is responsible for coordinating services with other directors, legal counsel, executives, and other staff. Customers of this position are both internal and external, including leadership, staff, medical staff, regulatory agencies, and the community.
• Mentors and coaches subordinate directors; guides directors, and supervisors in the selection, hiring, training and development of staff as well as performance appraisal, documentation of deficiencies, performance recognition and disciplinary action; develops, supervises and appraises direct subordinates; plans and implements disciplinary actions as needed, working with Human Resources and legal advisors as appropriate.
• Conducts and/or participates in a variety of staff and committee meetings; serves on task forces and commissions as assigned including but not limited to Medical Staff, Board of Trustees, Quality Improvement, Finance Committee, Compliance Committee, Utilization Review. Represents assigned areas to other departments and external agencies to coordinate activities, identify issues, resolve problems and share information.
• Functions well with the co-relationship of managing a hospital and relating to HealthTechS3. Keeps the HealthTechS3 team aware of all key financial developments. Fulfills accountability for the hospital by submitting to HealthTechS3 all appropriate reports and functions as a cooperating member of a great team. Examines insurance policies to ascertain that hospital assets are properly insured against loss and that the hospital’s liability coverage meets the management contract requirements
• Assures compliance with required financial reports including the cost report, annual audits, special audits, reporting on federal and state grant programs, required USDA loan reporting, federal not for profit tax return, annual public meeting for budget review and related reports.
• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Under general direction given by the CEO, the Chief Financial Officer has administrative responsibility for overall management of the assigned departments including Patient Financial Services, health information management (HIM), materials management (MM), information technology (IT), payroll, accounts payable, and the senior accountant. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; mentoring the development of leaders; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Qualification Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance plus knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and a very strong understanding of all the areas of responsibility described above.
• Masters and CPA preferred
• Five years healthcare experience including two years of experience in a critical access hospital setting
• Minimum 2 years of supervisory experience preferred.
• Ability to implement internal controls.

Language Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Ability to write policies and procedures that conform to prescribed style and format.
• Ability to effectively present information to leadership, public groups, and/or boards of directors.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and is knowledgeable in metric, apothecary and household measurements and can convert from one system to another.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to modify communication based on the developmental / functional age of the patient as well as that of the patient’s ethnic background.

Other Skills and Abilities

• Ability to act as a patient advocate.
• Ability to interact with patients, families, visitors and co-workers.
• Ability to interact assertively and tactfully when dealing with conflict and in group solving activities.
• Ability to demonstrate a professional, open minded approach in identifying problems and resolving problems/conflicts.

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Silver City NM United States

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