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Director Governmental Reporting
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston
Job Description
At Houston Methodist, the Director Governmental Reporting is responsible for ensuring that Houston Methodist meets all internal and external financial and governmental reporting requirements. Requirements include Medicare cost reports, Federal Tax Returns Health and Human Services (HHS)/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reporting, Federal and State Charity Reporting, Federal tax reporting including income tax and payroll reporting and filings, and state 1115 waiver reporting. This position directs monthly net revenue and accounts receivable valuation and is also responsible for governmental policy review and research.
The Director position responsibilities include overseeing the activities of the department staff, ensuring quality, productivity, functional excellence and efficiency to accomplish strategic and operational objectives. In addition, this position is accountable for employee engagement, adequate staffing levels, budget development and compliance, staffing decisions such as hiring and terminating employment, coaching and counseling employees on work related performance, and developing and implementing policies and procedures to ensure a safe and effective work environment. This position also ensures training, monitoring and operations initiatives are implemented which secure compliance with ethical and legal business practices and accreditation/regulatory/government regulations.
PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business/job duties as assigned. Houston Methodist reserves the right to revise job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.
- Directs, develops and implements strategic and operational/high-level projects and processes either through independent/highly autonomous work or through the facilitation of work teams to enable the effective and efficient completion of objectives.
- Oversees management of and ensures development for staff to meet overall objectives in terms of quality, service and cost-effectiveness. Provides timely guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas needed to accomplish a task or solve a problem. Directs management responsibilities of selection, scheduling, supervision, retention, and evaluation of employees.
- Meets or exceeds threshold goal for department turnover and/or system metrics on employee engagement indicators.
- Provides leadership and communication to maintain a competent and engaged employee group by conducting regular department meetings to review policies and procedures and operational matters, rounding on all employees, completing performance appraisals, conducting new hire feedback sessions, coaching/corrective counseling, and providing recognition/commendations to achieve desired outcomes.
- Identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one's area and other areas, teams, departments, and units to achieve business goals. Drives the promotion of teamwork within and between departments; participates and/or leads and facilitates department process improvements as needed.
- Partners effectively with internal and external parties.
SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Oversees department operations, designated projects, schedules and activities as needed to ensure that goals or objectives are accomplished within the prescribed time frame. Sets priorities and functional standards, giving direction to staff as necessary to ensure the best possible delivery of service and high customer/patient satisfaction.
- Drives department service standards and activities to impact department and/or system score for patient/customer-based satisfaction, through role modeling and fostering accountability. Serves and actively participates on various entity committees as a voice for the department.
- Prepares the annual budget for presentation to the system Board of Directors.
- Responsible for Federal Tax Return filing, and all tax related matters as well as charity reporting and understanding charity reporting regulation.
QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Ensures a safe and effective working environment; monitors and/or revises the department safety plan and/or any specific accreditation/regulatory required safety guidelines. Responsible for staff maintenance of credentials and competencies, per accrediting/licensing agency and/or department guidelines as applicable.
- Employs a proactive approach in the optimization of safe outcomes and information systems by monitoring and improving the department workflow and enhancing operations, using peer-to-peer accountability and identifying solutions via collaboration. Implements process improvements utilizing tools such as lean principles. Role models situational awareness, using teachable moments to improve safety.
- Responsible for employee compliance to policies and procedures and performs associated actions upon non-compliance (i.e., licensure/certification compliance, focal point review requirements, disaster plan, in-services, influenza immunization, wage and hour, standard hours, timely termination submission, timely timecard approval, etc.).
- Identifies and makes recommendations for standard information systems and improvements by which all budget data will be accumulated, shared and summarized.
- Directs the preparation of monthly contractual allowance reserves for all hospitals to ensure proper valuation of patient accounts receivable.
FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Develops and manages department operational and capital budgets, approvals, and ongoing maintenance of the department(s), ensuring operation in a cost-effective manner. Proactively identifies and plans for capital needs related to current equipment and future department projects. Ensures staffing plans and schedules meet department needs that reflect understanding of the importance of cost-effectiveness.
- Creates department strategies to achieve financial target and staffing needs, through optimizing productivity, supply/resource efficiency, minimizing incidental overtime and overtime percentage, and other areas according to department specifications.
- Directs the coordination, review and filing of corporate income tax returns, corporate information returns, unrelated business income tax returns, corporate state tax returns and corporate payroll tax returns.
- Directs and reviews the filing of Federal and State Charity Report.
- Directs the coordination, review and filing of Medicare and Medicaid cost reports and associated audits by the fiscal inter-mediatry. Also directs re-opening requests and appeals.
- Directs the coordination, review and filing of state 1115 waiver requirements.
GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Identifies and implements innovative solutions for practice or workflow changes to improve department, entity or system operations by leading unit projects and/or other department/system-directed activities. Proactively leads task forces and committees. May represent HM at assigned community or professional organization meetings.
- Drives change initiatives, maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusts effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements or cultures. Partners effectively with stakeholders as appropriate.
- Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management. Completes and updates My Development Plan (MDP) on an ongoing basis. Conducts conversations with staff on their development and MDP.
- Stays up to date and makes recommendations regarding federal and state regulations and the impact on Houston Methodist. Serves as subject matter expert regarding financial impact to operational initiatives.
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business/job duties as assigned. Houston Methodist reserves the right to revise job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.
EDUCATION
WORK EXPERIENCE
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- Bachelor's degree in accounting
- Master's degree preferred
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Five years of progressively responsible experience in accounting, of which two years must have been in a people management role
- Healthcare experience preferred
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Company Information
Company: Houston Methodist Hospital
Location: Houston
Location: Houston