Job Type: Full time
Employment Type:Full timeShift:Description:Hybrid Work LocationPOSITION PURPOSE Accountable for planning, directing, and controlling Regional Health Ministry (“RHM”) and Market Record to Report (“R2R”) shared services responsibilities. Directs the overall management of financial systems and processes to ensure credible and timely accounting information is generated during the monthly financial close process, production of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements for the RHM and Markets supported. Interacts directly with senior management and department directors to ensure that accounting services are available, reliable and produce credible, timely and accurate financial information. Responsible for financial internal controls management, verifying the integrity and accuracy of financial information, safeguarding organizational assets, and developing efficient business processes to support accounting operations. Enable enterprise level strategy to address internal or external business and regulatory issues; provide functional expertise and ensure fulfillment of performance and service standards. Identifies, defines, and solves complex problems that impact the management of the R2R function. Collaborate with System Services Area and Health Ministries to ensure consistency and integration of strategy and operations. Maintains awareness of new industry developments and standards. Provides optimization leadership focus.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONSKnows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the mission, vision, and values of Trinity Health in leadership behaviors, practices, and decisions.Provides leadership for monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidation of financial statements, and summarization and analysis of key financial trends and issues with crisp, insightful analysis for RHM and Markets served. Presents summary analyses to RHM and Market senior leadership, RHM governance committees, department directors, and at senior management team meetings.Responsible for coordinating and directing all accounting activities and financial reporting activities, including System Office reporting, for RHM and Markets served. Oversees areas of general accounting, cash management and treasury, miscellaneous accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, asset management, donor restricted assets, joint ventures, and account reconciliations, among others relevant to RHM and Markets served. Areas of responsibility include the balance sheet, income statement, statement of changes in net assets, cash flow statement, year-end footnotes, and related variance analysis as well as key financial indicator statistics.Develops and implements financial and managerial reporting best practice processes to ensure timely and insightful analysis of financial and business performance for RHM and Markets supported. Assesses quality of financial reporting and analysis, provides feedback to staff, and implements process improvements. Supports System Services CFOs, RHM and Market CFOs and VPs of Finance in identifying opportunities to improve accuracy and timeliness of accounting, reporting and insightfulness of analysis.Accountable for ensuring that policies and procedures (internal controls) are in place to provide reasonable assurance that the organizations assets are protected. Ensures that the organizations financial records and financial reports, under responsibility, are maintained in compliance with organizational policies, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“GAAP”) and other regulatory reporting requirements. Responsible for oversight of monthly/quarterly account reconciliations and other documents to ensure this compliance. Implements system-wide accounting policies, practices, procedures, and initiatives in accordance with GAAP, System accounting and reporting requirements, management information needs, risk-based assessment, and internal controls.Coordinates work relating to both internal and external audits in the periodic review of financial records, and financial statements including Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (grants; “Uniform Guidance” or “Single Audit”) and other RHM specific audit requirements. Is further responsible for timely implementation of agreed upon recommendations, related to areas of responsibility, resulting from the audit findings.Coordinates annual 990 and other tax returns and accumulation of financial information to support our community benefit reporting. Supervises the completion of federal and state tax reporting requirements and other reports as required by government regulation.Provides guidance to staff on technical accounting questions and compliance as well as the development, implementation and monitoring of internal controls relating to the financial statement close processes.Proactively works to streamline accounting and reporting processes, clarify accountabilities, improve organizational capability, and enhance financial stewardship to support System and RHM objectives. Understands and promotes continuous quality improvement tools and methodologies for process redesign to ensure continuous quality improvement, customer service excellence and reporting of accurate financial results.Recruits, interviews, and selects staff in collaboration with Regional VP, Accounting and Reporting, and Human Resources. Participates in management of Centers of Expertise functions including accounting for areas such as asset management, leases, contributions, and grants, including the preparation of financial reports for donors and grantors. Utilizes measurements of quality and productivity to evaluate systems and staffing. Fosters positive team collaboration, mentoring and staff development to facilitate efficient operations, employee engagement and achievement of customer service excellence goals. Oversees human resource functions including training and performance management to maintain the highest quality workforce. Ensures staff are qualified and capable of meeting the objectives and responsibilities, noted above.Leads and manages a diverse staff in a matrix environment, where growth and development are encouraged. Recognizes necessary changes in priority of tasks and allocation of resources, and acts upon them as required to meet workload demands. Actively engages in professional development to maintain current skills and knowledge of environmental trends, GAAP developments, financial reporting and accounting best practices and business opportunities.Works in collaboration with and strongly influences RHM and Market senior leadership to improve consistency and capabilities relative to accounting and managerial reporting, financial controls, and other non-revenue finance processing for which they each have accountability. Maintains good rapport and cooperative relationships. Approaches conflict in a constructive manner. Helps to identify problems, offer solutions, and participate in their resolution.Develops and delivers standard service levels for accounting, payroll, statistics, and financial reporting in conjunction with Service Area CFOs and RHM Finance.Provides leadership and accounting expertise on other key finance initiatives.LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES  As a Trinity Health senior leader, the incumbent is expected to demonstrate leadership traits which support our Mission Statement and Core Values as identified below: Mission Statement:  We, Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.Core Values:Reverence:  We honor the sacredness and dignity of every person.Commitment to Those who are Poor:  We stand with and serve those who are poor, especially those most vulnerable.Justice:  We foster right relationships to promote the common good, including sustainability of Earth.Stewardship:  We honor our heritage and hold ourselves accountable for the human, financial and natural resources entrusted to our care.Integrity: We are faithful to those we say we are.Safety: We embrace a culture that prevents harm and nurtures a healing, safe environment for all.Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. A Master’s degree is preferred.Certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is required, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, such as a long tenure in health care accounting and/or HFMA certifications.Must have a thorough, broad-based knowledge of health care accounting, finance, and management reporting, usually gained through seven (7) to ten (10) years of progressively more responsible experience in health care accounting in a significant sized and complex organization. Previous managerial experience is preferred.Strong knowledge of US GAAP, strong accounting technical skills, financial analysis skills, and experience in researching and analyzing complex accounting issues.Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate in clear, concise terms with staff and management at all levels, including C-suite executives.Ability to work effectively in a matrix organizational structure, shared leadership environment and influence others.Strong analytical, project management and organizational skills enabling complex issues to be rapidly understood and presented in an understandable manner. Bright and creative with the ability to drive organizational change quickly across RHM and Markets supported.High level of interpersonal, management and organizational skills are necessary with special focus on customer service orientation skills.Ability to travel, as necessary.Reporting and Working RelationshipsReports to Trinity Health Vice President, Accounting and Reporting, Service Area 2.Provides line leadership for the Shared Services financial reporting and accounting regional team. Direct reports include:Accounting managersAs a member of the System Office System Services accounting team, takes proactive accountability to drive success of the overall System-wide accounting function, including areas beyond their direct responsibility.Physical and Mental Requirements & Working Conditions Indirect / Healthcare Support Services: (OSHA: Healthcare support services mean services that facilitate the provision of healthcare services.)  Occasional clinical / patient facing work environment.   Includes continuous work time indoors (subject to travel requirements) under temperature-controlled & well-lit conditions; may encounter occasional variable external environmental conditions.   Includes occasional lifting, up to 30 pounds unassisted, frequent travel, frequent use of computer; Includes continuous sitting & may require Occasional long periods of continued walking, standing, stooping, bending, pulling & pushing.     Direct Healthcare & Indirect / Support Healthcare Services:   Must be able to:   Adapt to frequent interruptions, shifting priorities & stressful situations; Attend to tasks until complete, understand & relate to complex ideas & concepts & be able to remember multiple tasks & regimens extending over long periods of time & work on concurrent tasks / projects.   Frequently read small print, frequent ability to hear normal sounds & voice patterns, able to give / receive instructions & other verbal communications in-person & over the phone / computer / device / equipment assigned with some background noise.   Perform frequent manual dexterity activities & occasional grasping/handling.   Continuous attention to maintain a safe working environment & use of available personal protective equipment (PPE).   Comply with Trinity Health’s policies & procedures.     KEY: Average Workday Activity: Occasional (1% - 33%), Frequent (34% - 66%), Continuous (67% - 100%)   *References OSHA 1910.502 https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.502 Direct patient care means hands-on, face-to-face contact with patients for the purpose of diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring. 1910.502 applies to “employee provides healthcare services or healthcare support services.” Healthcare services mean services that are provided to individuals by professional healthcare practitioners (e.g., doctors, nurses, emergency medical personnel, oral health professionals) for the purpose of promoting, maintaining, monitoring, or restoring health. Healthcare services are delivered through various means including Hospitalization, long-term care, ambulatory care, home health and hospice care, emergency medical response, and patient transport. For the purposes of this section, healthcare services include autopsies. Healthcare support services mean services that facilitate the provision of healthcare services. Healthcare support services include patient intake/admission, patient food services, equipment and facility maintenance, housekeeping services, healthcare laundry services, medical waste handling services, and medical equipment cleaning/reprocessing services.  Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.