Decision Support Analyst I

At the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), we are creating a better state of care, for our communities and our team members at more than 150 locations across Maryland.

UMMS believes all team members are caregivers—and we support our caregivers so they can care for our patients. When you join UMMS, you become part of a highly reliable community of more than 27,000, where your experience is respected, your expertise is recognized, and your passion and curiosity are nurtured. A generous benefits package supports your physical, mental, and financial health through a paid time off plan, comprehensive health coverage, dependent care and tuition reimbursement, retirement plan, wellbeing services and more.

UMMS embraces a just culture where all team members are treated fairly and are empowered to communicate their goals and pursue their full career potential. We are guided by our shared values—compassion, discovery, excellence, diversity and integrity—and we are looking for talented individuals who will embrace those values and help us achieve our mission and vision.

UMMS has been recognized as a top employer nationally and most recently is a recipient of the Forbes’ 2023 America’s Best Large Employers award, as well as Newsweek’s 2023 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity and America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women honors.

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Decision Support Analyst I

Job ID: REF38555Z

Area of Interest: Professionals

Location: Baltimore,MD US

Hours of Work: 8-5

Job Facility: University Of Maryland Medical System Corporate Office

Employment Type: Full Time

Shift: Day

Company Description

This is a great opportunity for recent college graduates to start their professional career!

*This is a hybrid position based out of Baltimore, MD.

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

Job Description

Job Summary

Coordinate financial and integration activities to deliver outcomes and results in support of achieving departmental and organizational goals. Work is performed under close supervision.

Primary Responsibilities

The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job responsibilities performed.

• Meet the needs of customers by pursuing improved courses of action, deliver products and services that meet customer needs, use customer feedback as a basis for improving outcomes and delivering value added services.

• Adapt to processes, outcomes, and behaviors to complete assignments in a timely and quality focused manner.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the issues and opportunities relevant to building, maintaining, and optimizing an enterprise-wide business applications software including data integrity and structural maintenance, user training and adoption, and future deployment of enhancements.

• Execute work in connection with the needs of leadership. Monitor initiative outcomes and performance improvement indicators. Develop presentations that are clear, accurate and informative.

• Responsible for the quality control for individual work and reviewing the work of others as appropriate.

• Provide high-quality, high-value reporting to customers on a continual basis.

• Build and update functional dashboards to provide users with enhanced visibility into financial data across the corporate and member org levels.

• Serve as the center for training and support to management and performance reporting systems.

• Coordinate training and continuous education for non-finance team members at Corporate or Member Organizations.

• Proactively identify and pursue opportunities to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.

• Maintain communication with peers to review programs, provide feedback, and discuss new developments and exchange information. Share personal expertise with peers and solicit expertise from peers.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education & Experience – Required

  • • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Data
  • Analytics, or related field.

Education & Experience – Preferred

  • • One (1) year experience in roles including but not limited to finance, accounting, budgeting, financial
  • planning and analysis, and data analytics.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

  • • Proficiency in preparing and analyzing financial data.
  • • Proficient mathematical and analytical skills.
  • • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • • Self-motivated individual who can excel with little supervision and can be successful in a fast paced,
  • dynamic environment.
  • • Ability to analyze, compare, contrast, and validate work with keen attention to detail.
  • • Ability to judge the level of confidentiality of information/activities involved in and exhibit integrity
  • in use of dissemination of such information.
  • • Effective skill developing and maintaining collaborative working relationships with all levels of
  • leadership, staff and vendors.
  • • Effective analytical, quantitative, planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
  • • Effective skill presenting findings, conclusions, alternatives and information clearly and concisely.
  • • Effective skill in the use of Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
  • • Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

 Compensation

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