Manager of Special Projects - Accounting

Job Title: Manager of Special Projects - Accounting
Department: Operations – Integration Strategy and Ops 

About the Role:

The Manager of Special Projects - Accounting role will play a key role in Astrana’s growth strategy and be instrumental in leading our M&A integration and implementation efforts as well as supporting other operational initiatives and projects. S/he will be responsible for the successful planning and execution of Accounting department specific activities to enable us enter into new markets and grow.

The position reports to the Chief Accounting Officer with a dotted line to the Group Vice President of PMO and Integrations. The Project Manager will work on multiple growth and operational initiatives including growth in new market, payor contract launches/conversions, new service line implementations, government/regulatory approval/compliances and other special projects. In this role, the Project Manager will partner and collaborate closely with the market leaders, Contracting, Credentialing, Compliance, Configuration, Integration teams and other related stakeholders to achieve project goals. Help document process for future efficiency and focus on improvement strategies in alignment with organizational goals.

The successful Project Manager must be able to quickly adapt to projects of different size and complexity, able to plan, develop, organize, monitor, risk mitigate and successfully integrate accounting activities on all assigned projects by utilizing best practice project management techniques. Focus on efficiently building by conducting process improvements in the designated functional area. 

What you’ll do:

• Work with Accounting leadership to develop and implement department specific project plans, including timelines, scope and resources, to ensure operational efficiency and project success.
• Work with Integration team to understand special project pipeline. Plan and coordinate activities to execute on contact related deliverables on time to meet special project needs
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure all operational and project components are executed according to plan, including accounting, payor and market related activities.
• Be an integral part of onboarding any growth initiatives
• Create funds flow and other accounting artifacts, develop project plans, schedule meetings, track/manage accounting related updates
• Communicate progress to stakeholders both in writing and verbally
• Put together audience specific presentations and report out on progress with regular agreed upon cadence.
• Provide operational coordination of the day-to-day execution of the Contract management, including schedule adherence, regulatory compliance, change management, technical and quality compliance
• Conduct follow-ups on off-track/lagging projects and coordinate task force to bring tasks back on track in order to meet operations and special projects goals.
• Flag risks/issues proactively and work collaboratively with stakeholders to provide solution by developing strategies and action plans to resolve issues and mitigate risks.
• Escalate risks and issues as appropriate for timely resolution and mitigation
• Build sound professional relationships with key stakeholders.
• Serve as primary contact to for department specific queries on all ongoing and upcoming projects
• Build Contract specific templates that will be required for operations and future growth projects
• Develop, track and measure applicable KPI’s and other leading indicators department specific goals are met
• Continuously review integration processes and plans and perform “post-mortems” or other similar activities as appropriate and make recommendations for areas of improvement to the leadership team
• Initiate and work on department specific process improvement initiatives
• Manage any special and/or ad-hoc projects related to Accounting department and/or another strategic initiative
• This individual must unquestionably be highly organized, process-oriented, and self-motivated.
• Develop and maintain strong working, professional relationships with
  executives, Diligence, Integration Team, other cross functional teams for successful project delivery

Key Deliverables and Performance Goals:

• Positive impact to Astrana Health team and client experience with implementati