Financial Systems Analyst

The Financial Applications Analyst provides application support for RVH's financial business applications, with a primary focus on Meditech Financials, ensuring systems operate effectively, efficiently, and securely while producing accurate and reliable financial data and reporting.

The incumbent partners with Finance, Regional Digital Health (RDH), operational leaders, and regional partner hospitals to analyze business needs, recommend workflow and system enhancements, and support software upgrades and improvements. Responsibilities span the full application lifecycle, including analysis, design, testing, implementation, training, and ongoing support.

Through a commitment to service excellence, innovation, continuous improvement, and collaboration, the Financial Applications Analyst supports both RVH and regional initiatives while ensuring financial systems evolve to meet changing organizational needs.

The successful candidate will exhibit the core values of Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre: Inspire Trust, Be Kind, Be Bold, Do Great Things, and Team Up.

This position supports both RVH and regional partner hospitals and may work remotely or on-site in accordance with RVH's Working Remotely Policy.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary application support to users at RVH and our regional partners. Support is for the financial business applications, including Meditech Financials (Billing & Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Pharmacy Materials Management, Fixed Assets, General Ledger).
• Provides support, advice, and coordinates training to end users throughout the health centre and regional hospitals
• Identifying system and operation changes, tests, and implementation of new features of software to end users.
• Advising staff in operational functions including problem definition, correction and documentation.
• Optimize application features & functionality to meet end user requirements & facilitate workflow processes.
• Liaise with application vendors support personnel as required to resolve issues.
• Maintain user access and security tables for financial applications.
• Maintain menus, dictionaries, and general ledger chart of accounts for the financial applications in both test and live environments.
• Co-ordinate implementation and conversion testing of new or upgraded modules associated with financial applications.
• Analyze, validate, & prioritize user requests for system enhancements.
• Develop functional specifications & assist vendor with system enhancements.
• Responsible for accuracy of entries transferred from other Meditech and Non-Meditech Financial applications.
• Responsible for GL report writing and maintenance of reports in Meditech, as well as coordination of reports with Decision Support or Clinical Business Analytics team members.
• Work closely with the Clinical Informatics and Applications Group to maintain standards for process and documentation and data integration, and to support the users of regional partner hospitals.
• Participate in ad hoc and ongoing committees such as RVH’s change advisory board, location setup working groups, MIS and data quality working groups.

Education:

• University undergraduate degree in accounting/business or computer related field.
• CPA designation

Experience:

• 5 years of working experience at a senior accountant/analyst (or equivalent) level
• Two years’ experience in a client service role, applying accounting and Ministry guidelines an asset.
• Experience in a healthcare setting with Meditech software is an asset.
• Experience implementing, maintaining, updating and testing financial systems/software an asset

Competencies:

• In depth knowledge of business and accounting requirements, OHRS standards, and processes
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (excel) required.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team.
• Demonstrated effective oral and written communication skills with all levels of staff and external parties.
• Strong analytical, organization and problem-solving skills.