Financial Business Analyst

Project Description

Position: Financial Business Analyst

Duration: 1 Year (Contract Position, Benefits Not Provided)

Hourly Rate: $77 W2

SCDHHS is the State Medicaid Agency for South Carolina. The overarching project is focused on the replacement of the State s Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS).

The replacement of the MMIS (RMMIS) program will be incremental and modular in nature with a focus on configurable and scalable integrations, which allow for more flexibility and reduces time and cost necessary to respond to federal and state enhancements.

The sub-project this position will work on is Accounting and Finance which deals with the payment of medical, pharmacy, dental and MCO payments as well as other financial processing through the State SAP solution, SCEIS.

The current payment process involves payment processing in the current legacy MMIS, and processing through a variety of non-integrating and manual processes. A key strategy of the RMMIS project is to remove these inefficiencies and transition all Medicaid payments to the State of SC SAP solution, SCEIS.

This position will represent the department s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in the Accounting and Finance sub-project by providing expertise in business analytics and draw from experience in previous financial SAP implementations.

Job Description

The Accounting and Finance Business Analyst will work with the RMMIS Project Director and the implementation vendor to ensure the claim solutions are coordinated with the Accounting and Finance solution. This position will serve as the CFO representative on the Accounting and Finance sub-project.

This analyst will also provide leadership expertise in the following areas:

• Accounting Standards
• SCEIS

Duties include:

• Serve as subject matter expert, ensuring project meets the goals and objectives of the business owner, the agency Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
• Coordinate related business transformation activities needed with the CFO and other key staff
• Coordinate project tasks and activities with the project manager
• Provide project scheduling support as needed
• Build positive relationships with team members and vendor staff
• Participate in financial and claims business design sessions within assigned modules and work streams
• Advocate and lead business analysis in support of the Accounting and Finance project and its related impacts to the Medicaid claims payments

• Provide updates on status and issues to the CFO
• Participate in scheduled operational meetings and routine team leads meetings
• Participate in cross-functional meetings and produce business designs that integrate functionality across modules

• Provide recommendations of appropriate resources if necessary to ensure assignments are completed within given time and budget.

Required Skills

• Verbal Communication Skills (6 Years)
• Written Communication Skills (6 Years)
• Claims Payment and Financial systems (6 Years)
• Experience in major SAP financial implementations (6 Years)
• Financial (6 Years)