Business Analyst Senior, Finance

Primary Responsibilities

The Sustain Analytics team is part of the Business Planning department, which also includes Decision Support and Business Analytics teams. The Business Analyst Senior (Finance), on the Sustain Analytics team is responsible for completing a broad range of analytic, planning, benchmarking, and other operational support activities for one or more designated members of the Leadership Team (Senior VP's, Clinical VP's, Operating VP's and Executive Directors), across the enterprise.

A critical measure of each Business Analyst's success will be the extent to which the analytic and planning needs of each person supported are met in a timely, consistent, high quality manner. This will require close collaboration with staff within the clinical departments, and many other analytic, financial, and planning groups throughout the MGB enterprise, including Sustain Management Office (SMO), Business Planning, Financial Planning, Digital, and local financial, operational, and analytical teams and decision-making bodies at each of the MGB entities.

An ability to synthesize, summarize and effectively communicate the analytic and planning work that is performed is key.

Surgical Profitability:
General

• Support all data analytic needs to support strategic business decision making on surgical profitability, including surgical cost reduction, clinical supply utilization optimization, OR efficiency, and improved block scheduling.
• Assessing current state surgical profitability for comparable procedures performed in perioperative and procedural areas across the MGB enterprise
• Identifying potential areas of opportunity through analyzing differences in clinical supply utilization across and within the different entities at MGB, including surgeon and product variation and waste reduction
• Collaborating with perioperative and procedural teams areas to better understand clinical application and financial opportunity, relative to quality and preference
• Quantifying financial impact of any recommended changes in practice
• Conduct financial reporting and analysis by procedure and/or procedure groups to enhance service line growth strategy across the perioperative and procedural areas
• Utilize industry benchmarks to compare cost, profitability, utilization, and pricing for procedural cases and clinical supplies

• Develop consistent executive level reporting, to be used by clinical and administrative leaders within the perioperative and procedural areas, to measure performance and support best practice across the enterprise
• Catalogue current state analytics across various systems, and develop standard analytics and reporting in one single system to meet varied stakeholder needs across the enterprise
• Escalate challenges, discrepancies, roadblocks regarding data and analytics to manager or appropriate data owner

Surgical Profitability:
Information Systems Management

• Support external system used for surgical capacity and surgical cost/clinical supply utilization reporting:
• Support administrative maintenance of system through collaborating with appropriate internal and external teams, escalating data or system issues to leadership, and communicating downtime and system updates to end users
• Create deliverables for executive and c-suite level leadership, summarizing performance and related comments from local entities and departments
• Support ad hoc inquiries and analytics from department leaders

• Collaborate with leadership across Business Planning, Digital, and Perioperative Leadership to manage routine system maintenance and upgrades

Communication Activities

• Prepare concise, creative, professional summaries of analyses and plans for members of Senior Leadership, as appropriate.
• Effectively present findings to all levels of staff, targeting the presentation towards the knowledge level and needs of the audience
• Provide input to the team or senior leadership on additional analyses and key next steps
• Develop summary communication materials for executive level and board presentations, as requested.

• Keep current regarding trends and developments in the health care field, particularly as they pertain to workforce management, analytic and decision support tools, financial trends, evolving technologies and programs, etc.

Project Management

• Promote widespread education across the MGB enterprise for perioperative and procedural management information system, including development of training resources and materials, and facilitating educational road shows with appropriate teams
• Manage ad hoc projects related to business, financial and/or strategic planning for Perioperative and Procedural leadership and Sustain, in collaboration and alignment with the Sustain Management Office (SMO) and Project Management Office (PMO).

Other General Sustain:

• Provide the following analytic and planning evaluations for any initiatives within the supported MGB Sustain Core Teams (including, but not limited to:
  Workforce/HR and Talent, Clinical Practice and Supply Utilization, Clinical…