Senior Functional Analyst Jobs

Come work as a Senior Functional Analyst with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)!

VCH is seeking an individual with modern cloud-based HCM implementation experience to join our team. You will be leading the group to implement the journey and guide stakeholders during the transformational journey from our current highly customized HCM on-prem system to a modern cloud-based HCM as well as to sustain the application going forward. You will be a key expert during the implementation and will work closely with our clients to understand heir business needs and configure the HCM platform to align with business objectives and strategies.

As a Senior Functional Analyst with Vancouver Coastal Health you will

• Identify opportunities to further take advantage of the system and keeps up to date with new and upcoming functionality.
• Be the primary point of contact for the designated business area users (Employee Engagement/Human Resources, Scheduling & Timekeeping, Finance, Payroll, Supply Chain, Accounts Payable and Revenue Services, etc) across Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and Providence Health Care (PHC), the Senior Functional Analyst is the acknowledged expert in the designated Business Systems’ modules and drives continuous process and system improvement to align with business objectives.
• Be responsible to provide leadership and coordination for ensuring that functional Business Systems issues are resolved effectively and in a timely manner and continually looks for opportunities to maximize usage of the system to ensure on-going business process improvement.
• Provide functional leadership and assistance to executive leaders to strategic planning and implement business objectives.
• Ensure established operating standards and policies are adhered to.
• Report to the Manager, Decision Support, the Senior Functional Analyst leverages business and technical knowledge to ensure that assigned business systems effectively support business strategies, objectives, processes and practices for an assigned business area.
• Configure system changes affecting system processing and changes to common data elements shared across modules, writes queries to pull information from the system and conducts system audits to ensure data integrity.
• Provide work direction to IMIS team members to address technical issues and works with other corporate departments as well as counterparts in other business areas to mitigate risk around shared elements and critical system dependencies.
• Work with users to troubleshoot system problems, test system solutions, establish clear lines of communication and ensure clear visibility to critical functional issues.

Education & Experience

• Masters’ Degree in a related discipline supplemented by related Information Systems courses, plus a minimum of eight (8) years’ recent, related experience within a large complex organization with an emphasis on business systems and reporting an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Extensive experience with complex Business systems, project planning and control are essential.

Knowledge & Abilities

• Superior writing and presentation skills, including the ability to comprehend complex issues and related data/information and present information in concise meaningful ways and in a non-technical and non-financial manner.
• Advanced knowledge of broad scope of computerized Business Systems such as PeopleSoft, Kronos, Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management (HRCM).
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to negotiate and influence others, superior organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize workload to meet deadlines, ability to work under pressure and multi-task without direct supervision, physical ability to perform the duties of the job
• Advanced knowledge of relational and multidimensional databases and strong Structured Query language (SQL) skills.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• Knowledge and experience working with complex computer based business and data systems, data integrity process check and internal controls.
• Advanced knowledge of business principles and practices in Employee Engagement/Human Resources, Scheduling & Timekeeping, Finance, Payroll, Supply Chain, Accounts Payable and Revenue Services, etc.
• Strong computer and financial business systems skills including demonstrated ability to productively use spreadsheet, word processing, presentation and database applications.
• Customer focused with an ability to facilitate and encourage co-operation among diverse groups and skillsets.

As per the current Public Health Orders (Long Term Care/Seniors Assisted Living Provincial Health Officer Order and the Health Sector Order), as of October 26, 2021, all employees working for Vancouver Coastal Health must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Proof of vaccination status will be required.

WHY JOIN VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH?

VCH is a world class innovator in medical care, research and teaching, delivering service to more than one million BC residents. At VCH, we embrace thinking boldly, taking smart risks, and 'going first' when we believe it will lead to the best possible outcomes for patients and their families. We invite you to join us in creating healthy lives in healthy communities by showcasing our passion for care, connection to the communities we serve and our culture of teamwork that makes VCH a great place to work.

• Wellness supports, including counselling, critical incident and innovative wellness services are available to employees and their immediate families
• Award-winning recognition programs to honour staff, medical staff and volunteers
• Grow your career with employer-paid training and leadership development opportunities
• Access to exclusive discount offers and deals for VCH staff
• Comprehensive health benefits package, including MSP, extended health and dental and municipal pension plan

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to our goals of creating a great place to work and delivering exceptional care. We acknowledge and accommodate unique differences and ensure special measures are in place so that all prospective and current employees are given an opportunity to succeed.

We are committed to building a representative workforce and encourage applications reflecting diversity of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization or ancestry, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Vancouver Coastal Health is proud to be recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers in 2023.

Only short-listed applicants will be contacted for this posting.

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Thank you for your interest in Vancouver Coastal Health.