Cost Management, Consultant

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Role: Cost Management, Consultant

Team: Financial Decision Support

Location: US, Remote

Travel: <20%, US

**This position is currently not eligible for visa sponsorship**

The Cost Management Consultant will oversee implementations of Health Catalyst’s new Activity Based Costing product (PowerCosting) at large health systems and provider organizations.  This individual will be the main contact for Health Catalyst client sponsors and product end-users. The position requires close collaboration with the Client Engagement Lead, the Technical Implementation team and the client financial and operational work teams.

What you'll own in this Role:

• Responsible for the overall project management and success of deployments for the PowerCosting product suite. They will interact with the client’s Finance, Operations and Clinical teams on a regular basis throughout the engagement. 
• Must be a subject matter expert in cost accounting principles and healthcare operations. The role needs to be able to guide clients and the Health Catalyst technical implementation team during the assessment and deployment phases of the project.
• Owner of project timelines, tasks and goals.
• Provides end-user training and acts as the point person for managing software issues and troubleshooting during the implementation of the PowerCosting suite.
• Acts as the primary point of contact between the client and the PowerCosting product development team during the deployment, tracking issues and logging enhancement requests.
• The ideal candidate has experience in the following major areas:
  • Proven executive account management experience, ideally in a health care related industry. Can successfully interact, persuade, motivate, and handle objections at an executive level. Can build relationships at every level and show success at achieving high client satisfaction.
  • Healthcare cost accounting experience, strongly preferred, in order to facilitate cost management discussions.
    • The Lead will need to educate and guide client teams to make pragmatic decisions during the implementation including, but not limited to chart of account groupings, overhead and re-classification rules, and selecting appropriate drivers of resource utilization depending on the clients’ unique situation.
  • Demonstrated project management experience, including a strong attention to detail. 
  • Proven experience in health care operations both clinical and technical. 

What you bring to this Role:

• Exceptional interpersonal, communication, relationship building, organization, and time-management skills.
• Working knowledge of complex cost accounting rules and processes.
• Ability to build, bridge communication and work in a cross functional team of technology, clinical, and administrative resources.
• Proven ability to adjust quickly in a dynamic environment, applying best practices in clinical and agile technology program management.
• Detail-oriented, efficient, organized, resourceful, and highly productive.
• Possess analytical problem-solving skills.
• Anticipates and manages conflict resolution.

Education & Relevant Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in a finance, operations and/or cost accounting role within healthcare system or provider organizations.
• At least 3 years’ program or project management experience.
• Experience in building motivated, collaborative, and productive development/implementation teams.
• Hands on experience/participation in the implementation of cost accounting system(s) in a healthcare environment, either from the vendor or client perspective (strongly preferred).
• Experience with project management tools (preferred).
• Working knowledge of Slack or other modern communication tools (preferred).
• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting (preferred).

Information Security and Compliance Responsibilities:

• Maintain compliance with training directives required by the organization pertaining to Information Security, Acceptable Use Policy and HIPAA Privacy and Security.
• Adhere to and comply with the organizations Acceptable Use Policy.
• Safeguard information system assets by identifying and reporting potential and actual security events to the organizations Security and Compliance Officers.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed in this job function.  They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, and indeed additional responsibilities may be assigned by Health Catalyst.

Studies show that candidates from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for roles if they don’t have 100% of the qualifications shown in the job posting. While each of our roles have core requirements, please thoughtfully consider your skills and experience and decide if you are interested in the position. If you feel you may be a good fit for the role, even if you don’t meet all of the qualifications, we hope you will apply. If you feel you are lacking the core requirements for this position, we encourage you to continue exploring our careers page for other roles for which you may be a better fit.

At Health Catalyst, we appreciate the opportunity to benefit from the diverse backgrounds and experiences of others. Because of our deep commitment to respect every individual, Health Catalyst is an equal opportunity employer.