TENTATIVE

Occ. Code 0297950

DIRECTOR, HEALTH INSTITUTION FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION, M-4        

New York State Department of Civil Service

Classification Standard

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF CLASS

            The one position in this title series is responsible for centralized oversight of all fiscal operations including revenue and expenditure budgets for four State‑ operated Veterans Homes and Helen Hayes Hospital.  The incumbent of this position works collaboratively with facility fiscal staff developing and implementing sound fiscal policies, monitoring the fiscal status of facilities, overseeing revenue forecasting, and developing plans to correct revenue shortfalls and over-expenditures.

            This position is located at the Department of Health (DOH). 

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS

DIRECTOR, HEALTH INSTITUTION FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION:  director level; one position class; directly supervises the central billing office for the four nursing homes, and may serve as the Chief Financial Officer for a facility during the transition of fiscal officers.

RELATED CLASSES

Directors, Financial Administration, plan, direct, and coordinate agency budgeting, expenditure control, finance and business administration activities to ensure that financial resources under the jurisdiction of the agency are managed properly and in accordance with a variety of laws and regulations.

ILLUSTRATIVE DUTIES

Develop and monitor the implementation of institutional budgets.

• Direct the preparation of the institutional revenue budget by facilities.
• Propose changes in the central revenue budget to the Director of Institutional Management.
• Participate in the development and execution of institutional expenditures budgets.
• Act as a liaison for the institutional program with DOHs Fiscal Management Group on budget issues.
• Direct financial audits and assure the implementation of audit recommendations.

Develop monthly institutional revenue reports and year end forecasts.

• Design monthly institutional reports which will include statistical data and revenue and expense operating results.
• Design automated systems capable of what if analyses and forecast operating results.
• Monitor actual performance versus budget and produce variance analysis.

Assure patient care revenues are maximized.

• Supervise the development of institutional costs reports and approve them prior to submission.
• Assure adequate billing procedures are followed.
• Review business office collection policies directing changes or recommending revised legislation or regulations.
• Assure that institutional finance staff are trained in current cost reporting and billing practices and that state of the art financial management of revenue generation and billing is maintained at each facility.
• Oversee and coordinate collection efforts involving the Attorney Generals office and other agencies, as needed.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Open Competitive:  A Bachelor's Degree in accounting and nine years of post-graduate experience in health care facility fiscal management. This experience must have included a combination of experience in both a 100 + bed hospital setting and a 100 + bed skilled nursing facility, in which three years of the experience must have been as the Chief Fiscal Officer.

Date:  7/09

NOTE: Classification Standards illustrate the nature, extent and scope of duties and responsibilities of the classes they describe.  Standards cannot and do not include all of the work that might be appropriately performed by a class.  The minimum qualifications above are those which were required for appointment at the time the Classification Standard was written.  Please contact the Division of Staffing Services for current information on minimum qualification requirements for appointment or examination.