Financial Analyst- Lenexa, Kansas
Posted on: 4 Apr 2021
Lenexa, KS
Job Description
Job Description
Financial Analyst- Lenexa, Kansas - M-F
Look for more than answers. Patients and Physicians rely on our diagnostic testing, information and services to help them make better healthcare decisions. These are often serious decisions with far reaching consequences, and require sensitivity, tact and a clear dedication to service. Its about providing clarity and hope.
You will work for the world leader in the industry, with a career where you can expand your skills and knowledge. Youll have a role where you can act with professionalism, you can inspire colleagues, and you can care about the work we do and the people we serve.
At Quest, we are on a continuous journey of discovery and development. Its this attitude that has made us an industry leader and the 1 Diagnostic Lab in the US. For those joining us, we offer exciting and fast moving career opportunities where you can affect change at a rate unheard of in many organizations of our size and scope. While we invest in and develop technology to drive our innovations, our ongoing success relies on our people.
JOB SUMMARY:
Key analytical support role tasked with the development of databases, financial analyses, and reports in support of driving operating performance in the Hospital Business.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Initially upon hire, work with Billing SME to finalize onboarding package, while learning team processes, documenting the gaps in the process with the SME while progressing through the onboarding process. This includes but is not limited to learning and documenting verbal nuances taught, participating in appropriate individual exploration of training and document where the gaps lie while formulating a plan to ensure a comprehensive onboarding package is delivered soon after onboarding is complete.
* Manage and technically enhance key financial reports the Billing team supplies monthly. Billing team members will train you on the current state processes and while the FA is taking on these reports, enhancements need to be described, executed, and documented to streamline our reporting needs.
* Work with new company initiatives introduced to the business to ensure that Billing is appropriately accounted for, tracking the different pieces of information Billing will need in the different systems while creating a process, based around data mining and creating a report, to assistance in implementing new initiative to the Billing team.
* Shadow billing team members and their processes, taking notes of potential enhancements, offering up a solution and plan to Manager to implement enhancements to save time from team members to focus on higher level tasks.
* Must be able to run a project plan and have transparent updates to the Billing manager about week to week progress, and be able to produce a product in terms of a process, time saved, new report etc. to be successful
* Will work with Billing Manager to build out metrics and analyze KPIs so our teams data and numbers can be used in various formats throughout the organization, this included but is not limited to monitoring the metrics, graphing metrics, analyzing metrics, trending the metrics, and preparing an executive summary either dashboard driven or a powerpoint report out.
Additional responsibilities may include:
1. Provide MS Access database design, development, and implementation support.
2. Use MS Excel and Access to analyze large quantities of data from multiple sources.
3. Identify key trends and prepare reports and business recommendations for internal customers.
4. Automate recurring processes and reporting through the use of VBA/macros.
5. Assist in the Hospital monthly financial close process.
6. Perform variance analysis comparing actual results to budget, forecast, and prior year.
7. Complete ad hoc reporting and analysis as requested.
8. Participate in the Hospital budgeting and forecasting processes.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
-Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics, or Computer Science 2 to 4 years experience
-Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
-Advanced Microsoft Excel and Access skills
-Financial or business analysis experience
-Data mining experience and understanding of ODBC
-Outstanding customer service; ability to communicate complex concepts and recommendations in a simple, customer-friendly manner
Desired:
Experience using Business Objects or similar business intelligence software Knowledge of SQL
Quest Diagnostics
Secaucus, NJ
Company Overview
Quest Diagnostics empowers people to take action to improve health outcomes. Derived from the world's largest database of clinical lab results, our diagnostic insights reveal new avenues to identify and treat disease, inspire healthy behaviors and improve health care management. Quest annually serves one in three adult Americans and half the physicians and hospitals in the United States, and our 46,000 employees understand that, in the right hands and with the right context, our diagnostic insights can inspire actions that transform lives.
At a Glance
Quest Diagnostics is the world’s leading provider of diagnostic information services
Generated 2018 revenues of approximately $7.53 billion
Publicly trades common stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: DGX). More in Investor Relations
Ranks as a component of the S&P 500
Touches the lives of 30 percent of American adults each year
Serves about half of the physicians and hospitals in the U.S
Access to approximately 90% of U.S. insured lives
Engages workforce of about 46,000 employees dedicated to putting patients first every day
More than 6,600 patient access points, the most extensive network in the U.S.,
including phlebotomists in physician offices and more than 2,250 of our own
patient service centers
A medical and scientific staff of more than 600 M.D.s and Ph.D.s
Logistics capabilities, that include approximately 3,750 courier vehicles and 25 aircraft that collectively make tens of thousands of stops daily
Offers physicians a test menu that is industry leading in breadth and innovation. Our test menu ranges from routine biological tests to complex and specialized molecular and gene-based testing as well as anatomic pathology
Provides a broad range of solutions for employers, including workplace drug testing for employers and government agencies; the Blueprint for Wellness employee wellness service; and risk assessment services for the life insurance industry
Publishes original research in peer reviewed publications, at medical and scientific conferences, and as a public service. Quest Diagnostics Health Trends reports examine trends in diseases based on the company’s United States database. Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index (DTI) reports examine trends in workplace drug testing, and have been considered a benchmark for U.S. workforce drug positivity trends since 1988
Recognition
Named to Fortune Magazine's 2019 World's Most Admired Companies list in the Health Care industry category of "Pharmacy and Other Services" for the third consecutive year
Among FORTUNE® Magazine's 2018 Fortune 500® companies
Ranked on the Forbes® 2018 Global 2000
Ranked on the “Barron’s 500” list of top-performing large companies for 2017
Named a member of the Dow Jones® Sustainability World and North America indexes since 2004 (DJSI World) and 2005 (DJSI North America). The Dow Jones Sustainability World Index represents the top 10% of the leading sustainability companies out of the biggest 2,500 companies in the Dow Jones Global Total Stock Market Index
Earned a place on the annual Newsweek Green Rankings, for the fourth consecutive year on the 2017 U.S. list
Consistently named one of the best places to work in U.S. business journal rankings, including Forbes® 2018 America's Best Large Employers
Achieved Cancer Gold Standard™ accreditation from the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, recognizing our important actions to reduce the cancer risk of employees and their families
Received a rating of 100 from the Human Rights Campaign on the 2018 Corporate Equality Index, earning the distinction of being a "Best Place to Work for LGBT Equality"
Named a DiversityInc Noteworthy Company for the second consecutive year in 2018
Read more about awards and honors.
Read more about our Reputation Honors and Corporate Social Responsibility programs.
Products and Services
Diagnostics information services
Clinical trials
Healthcare IT
Wellness & risk management
Drug Screening
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Operations
Headquarters in the U.S.: 500 Plaza Drive, Secaucus, New Jersey 07094
Approximately 2,200 patient locations and dozens of clinical laboratories throughout the U.S.
In addition to the U.S., Quest Diagnostics operates clinical laboratories in laboratory facilities in Gurgaon, India; Heston, England; Mexico City, Mexico; and San Juan, Puerto Rico
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IndustryHealthcare
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No. of EmployeesApproximately 45,000
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