Assistant Director of Finance

Duties & Responsibilities

• Reviews and coordinates plans, activities, programs, practices and operations within the department to determine if operational functions are best servicing needs.
• Maintains document flow from health care setting financial units for timeliness, completeness and accuracy.
• Initiates and implements standard operating procedures and new accounting systems to simplify workload and improve flow of accounting and finance.
• Monitors operational procedures in compliance with authorized systems; implements changes necessary to stave off deterioration of their effectiveness and recommends and guides the installation of improved procedures for efficient operation of current health care setting financial systems.
• Provides general supervision including the general direction and review of staff personnel, and determines critical document flow points, and recommends solutions to affect resolution of stoppages or delayed processing.
• Engages in the development and maintenance of staff personnel at a level to fulfill operational needs of finance, accounting and systems requirements.
• Prepares special studies and analysis relevant to finance and accounting matters.
• Develops and maintains a system of reports for the guidance of NYC Health + Hospitals financial management and health care setting controllers in the operation of authorized financial and accounting systems and supervises on a current basis all financial data books, ledgers, records and reports needed to account for and record the results of operations and assets of the System and its subsidiaries.
• Participates in staff conferences, attends various meetings with key personnel of other NYC Health + Hospitals offices and outside agencies.
• Performs other related duties, as directed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related discipline with an emphasis on accounting and financial systems; and two (2) years of responsible-level experience in fiscal management or administration with an emphasis on financial systems, management information and controls, one (1) year of which must have been in a responsible administrative or managerial capacity.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in disciplines, as listed in “1” above; and three(3)years of experience, as described in “1” above, one (1) year of which must have been in a responsible administrative or managerial capacity.

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