Senior Consultant - Finance and Operations

Overview

This role focuses on providing expert support in hospital finance with an emphasis on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, cost reporting, and supplemental payment programs such as DSH, IME, and GME. Responsibilities include delivering technical analysis, developing and validating financial models, performing advanced data analytics, collaborating with cross-functional teams, supporting client communications and project management, and contributing to business development efforts. The position requires at least 7 years of relevant experience, deep knowledge of Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, strong Excel and analytical skills, and the ability to clearly translate complex regulatory and financial concepts. Success is measured by the accuracy and quality of reimbursement analyses, client satisfaction, effective collaboration, and meaningful contributions to financial reporting, compliance, and practice growth. More information can be found towards the end of the job description.

 

Job Summary

Working with clients, the Senior Consultant provides expertise to help organizations through healthcare-related research, technical assistance, grant writing, policy analysis, strategic planning, procurements, program development, quality improvement, financial and reimbursement strategies, operational support, evaluation, product development and a range of other tasks. As an experienced expert within the firm, the Senior Consultant is responsible for client services, project management, and supporting the firm’s efforts to develop business through participation in the competitive and/or non-competitive proposal development process.

Responsibilities

Work Performed

• Client management
  • Meets with clients and colleagues to understand requirements.
  • Gathers and organizes information about the issue to be solved or the procedure to be improved.
  • Analyzes data to identify and understand issues to be addressed.
  • Presents findings to internal colleagues, and clients.
  • Provides advice, implementation plans, and/or suggestions for improvement, according to project objectives.
  • Evaluates client needs, as warranted, and adjusts as appropriate.
  • Ensures that all deliverables are high-quality in all aspects (content, grammar, presentation, etc.).
• Serves as a subject matter expert on projects.
• Project management
  • Undertakes internal and external short-term and/or long-term project management to address identified issues and needs.
  • Develops and documents tools, analysis, frameworks, tracking tools, road maps, dashboards, and/or other approaches to manage a variety of large and small projects.
• Business development
  • Supports firm business development activities to expand funded work from existing clients and/or new clients.
  • Develops and maintains a pipeline of future work
  • Participates in competitive and/or non-competitive proposal development and submission.
• Leadership
  • Leads and manages teams, provides developmental feedback, and advances internal initiatives.
  • Serves as a mentor for other staff members, as requested.
• Performance metrics
  • Ensures performance meets or exceeds HMA expectations in the following areas:
    • Billable hour target attainment.
    • Manages to budget/project caps established at the outset or assists in negotiating additional fees.
    • Meets quality and operational standards.
    • Participates in internal activities related to business strategies, forecasts, adoption of new technologies/platforms/approaches, and other process improvements.
• Completes administrative requirements of the role in a punctual manner, including training, reporting, timesheets, expense reports, forecasting, and all other time-sensitive administrative duties.
• All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education/Training

Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Public Health, or a related discipline is required. Equivalent work experience in lieu of a bachelor’s degree, although not desired, may be determined as acceptable. A Master’s degree in a related discipline is strongly preferred.

 

Experience

At least 5 years of progressively increasing prior experience in work involving publicly-funded healthcare including, but not limited to policy, administration, operations, compliance, research, consulting, or evaluation.

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong project management skills.
• Solid time management skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to multi-task