[Hiring] Senior Consultant, Healthcare Finance @Sellers Dorsey

Role Description

Sellers Dorsey is seeking a Senior Consultant, Healthcare Finance who will support the Directors, Associate Directors, and Engagement Managers in ensuring the timely and effective delivery of healthcare finance consulting services. As the Senior Consultant, Healthcare Finance, you will focus on supporting project teams in developing and implementing business practices and health care financing/quality improvement initiatives. You will be responsible for assisting in the development and implementation of financial modeling, data analytics, and processes that direct service delivery and client satisfaction. You will also work to improve standardization at critical project junctures, providing detailed analysis.

This position will work in a team environment to develop processes and analysis that serve to enable project teams to deliver value to our clients while ensuring that projects run efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

• Create models and projections, using multiple data sources, communicating assumptions in the models as well as potential shortcomings.
• Communicate additional data or information needs for discussion with the project teams.
• Interpret Medicaid State Plan Amendments to recreate or reverse engineer existing supplemental payment models.
• Interpret and research State regulations, rules, and SPAs to recreate models/programs/payment estimates.
• Quickly analyze existing Excel models to recreate or duplicate programs from the previous year’s methodology.
• Recreate complex calculations including IGT and tax models, from limited information from PDFs, rules, and other information.
• Answer detailed questions from CMS related to models, calculations, and numbers included with Preprint submission.
• Train and communicate current program details to new team members or onboard new employees.
• Create data requests tailored to project and client needs.
• Review received files for quality and completeness and provide feedback as necessary.
• Serve as primary in cleaning, organization, and linking of multiple sources of data to establish a comprehensive source of client data.
• Assist in the sales lifecycle by participating in assessments, calculating high-level financial estimates to guide early stages of project development.
• Serve as primary in the creation of dynamic financial models, utilizing client data to develop creative and effective solutions tailored to the client’s needs.
• Proactively monitor CMS and state Medicaid policy and regulation development.
• Advise on technical components of client deliverables, including PowerPoint presentations or one-page documents.
• Assist in completion of preprint, waiver, and other required documentation.
• Prep Project Management teams for client engagements with in-depth demonstrations of data deliverables.
• Create and maintain firmwide resources that assist in the sales process.
• Assist in development of firmwide training opportunities covering a variety of healthcare finance topics.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Advanced degree in Public Policy, Public Administration, Public Health, Health Administration, business, economics, Mathematics, Accounting or MBA Statistics preferred.
• CPA certification and/or advanced training in actuarial science is preferred.
• 7-10 or more years of progressively responsible work experience in a technical capacity in health or human services policy research, consulting and/or in a healthcare service delivery environment.
• Experience primarily in a technical capacity such as data analytics, claims analysis, financial analysis, or similar.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Advanced Excel required.
• Expertise with Medicaid preferred.
• Advanced experience in federal or state government or private healthcare industry preferred.
• Experience with SQL, SAS or other data language preferred.
• Expertise in healthcare billing, claims work, or other healthcare data related field preferred.

Requirements

• Excellent oral and written communication skills including relaying complex technical terms in an easy to understand manner.
• Strong capacity to research, analyze, and interpret financial data drawn from multiple healthcare related sources.
• Ability to interact professionally with clients and other outside audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills required.
• Ability to work effectively independently and in teams.
• Deliver services on several projects simultaneously.
• Time management skills.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
• Employment with Sellers Dorsey is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Benefits

• The anticipated salary range for candidates is $95,800/year to up to $130,000/year.
• Eligible to participate in the annual Corporate Incentive Plan (CIP) that can range to up to 9% of annual salary.
• Eligible to enroll in group healthcare plans that offer medical, dental, and vision.
• Insurance plans offering short term disability, long term disability, and basic life.
• Enrollment in Sellers Dorsey’s 401k plan provided they meet plan requirements.
• Flexible Time Off that allows employees to use what they need.
• 16 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Paid time off for qualifying medical leave.
• Up to 12 weeks of combined paid parental and bonding leave.

Company Description

Sellers Dorsey is a healthcare impact strategy firm focused on improving care access, quality, and outcomes for our nation’s most vulnerable populations. We work with providers, managed care organizations, state entities, and others, to design, implement, fund, and optimize sustainable programs that deliver maximum impact to underserved communities. Built on decades of experience in Medicaid, our team includes former state Medicaid directors, healthcare policy experts, health plan execs, and hospital leaders who know how to navigate the complexities of the system and find creative, impactful solutions that drive the greatest impact for the individuals and communities that need it most.