Senior Consultant Financial Project Management (Project-Based, 12 Month Position)

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Posted: 10-Apr-24

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Type: Full-time

Salary: Open

Categories:

Project/Program Management/Planning
Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: JR25861

Location: Chicago, IL

Job Description:

• Acts as project lead on various process improvement initiatives.
• Creates and maintains project documentation including detailed work plans, schedules, and status reports.
• Improves funds flow budgeting process utilizing new capabilities with Oracle Cloud and the Chart of Accounts to build mission-based P&Ls and integrated statements with UCM.
• Creates new workflows for monthly funds flow reporting including timely reconciliation or true-ups of actuals and transition to BSD Finance staff.
• Works with UCFP to develop tools to monitor and measure facultyâ™s performance on new compensation plans and funds flow payments. To be distributed at least Bi-Annually.
• Working in partnership with UCM Finance and UCFP, develops scorecard for the variable payments under newly designed funds flow.
• Serves as the funds flow content expert for staffing (hospital-based agreements) develop standard methodologies and tools for establishing a FMV payment for efforts, in partnership with the Departments and UCM Finance.
• Serves as a change agent assessing BSD processes, evaluating opportunity, and operationalizing enhancements.
• Assesses reporting gaps current state versus future state and implements plans to address needs. 
• Manages stakeholders and collaborators across the enterprise in achieving project goals.
• Establishes a BSD standard approach for work or processes that exist in multiple BSD units. This includes identifying authoritative data sources and creating standard reports or workflows.
• Works with data from disparate systems such as Epic, Workday, and Oracle to generate meaningful reports.
• Provides analytical support for complex budget projects. Analyzes budget estimates and proposals for completeness; accuracy; and conformance with established procedures, regulations, and organizational objectives.
• Identifies current and future resource planning and allocation issues and develops, leads, and supervises complex studies and analyses that will assist senior staff in reaching resource planning and allocation decisions.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Preferred Qualifications
 

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or an MBA.

Experience:

• A minimum of seven years of finance experience in an academic medical center.
• Presenting to senior academic and staff leadership.
• Managing complex projects.
• Working with clinical, research, and educational data.
• Experience in financial analysis and modeling.
• Prior experience in system implementations strongly preferred.

Technical Skills or Knowledge:

• Proficiency with spreadsheet and word processing software.

Preferred Competencies

• Communicate complex information clearly and concisely.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Prior experience working in a matrix organization.
• Prior experience working with operating units.
• Attention to detail.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong time management skills.
• Multi-task and meet tight deadlines.

Working Conditions

• Office environment.
• This is a project-based tole that is expected to last for a duration of 12 months.

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter (required)

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