Review and analyze workload data and reports to verify accuracy of data, identify trends, and analyze variances; performing audits and analysis of financial structure, cost structure, and patient database to maintain and improve data; analyzing biweekly payroll records, supply utilization, equipment depreciation, allocation structures, contracts, and all other costs used in medical center functions; developing and using established analytical tools and studies to gather information; developing site-specific assumptions for account base and cost model; analyzing comparisons of utilization; performing cost reviews; analyzing variances; compiling and analyzing financial data; researching, identifying, and implementing corrections to financial and workload capture structures; identifying and developing data for MCA use, identifying resources used to support varied levels of program operations; maintaining a high level of integrity of MCA data. I understand and use various VISTA packages, including but not limited to Fileman, Event Capture, and MCA Extract Manager. Downloads data from the VISTA, VSSC, MCAL, Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW), MCA data cubes, Austin Information Technology Center (AITC), ARC, and other data sources. Formats the data for review, processing, and reports distribution, using Excel, Access, Microsoft Word, Power Point or other applicable software.

Review and analyze workload data and reports in order to verify the accuracy of the data, identify trends, and analyze variances in order to make recommendations and prepare reports for VISN, facility, and MCA staff. Perform audits and analysis of MCA financial structure, cost structure, and patient database to maintain and improve data integrity. Develop analytical tools to identify, format, and reduce data for analysis, to provide information to management in an easily recognized format, or to assist other analysts. Analyze biweekly payroll records, supply utilization (pharmaceuticals, prosthetics, food provisions, etc.), equipment depreciation, allocation structures, contracts, and all other costs used in medical center functions. Develop and use established analytical techniques and precedent studies to gather narrative or statistical information. Research, identify, and implement required corrections to financial and workload capture structures by establishing appropriate interfaces in the database. Perform system tests and validation processes to ensure that the system is properly functioning after each programming change. Verify that budget volumes, costs, relative value units, and standards reflect variable and fixed costs for the medical center.

Serve as the Administrative Officer for Logistics Services at the VASTLHCS. Responsible for the administrative management of the Logistics service line. Assist the chief and assistant chief with strategic planning, creating and maintaining statistical data for decision making purposes, developing and monitoring cost effective programs, developing policies as appropriate and developing methods and tools to scientifically evaluate program activities and effectiveness. Serve as the administrative resource for personnel management actions, maintaining competency folders, monitoring mandatory training needs, and serving as the timekeeper for Logistics Service. Serve as a Contracting Officer Representative (COR), monitoring contracts and certifying invoices for payment. Compile Clinical Product Review Committee (CPRC) requests, prepare agenda, and record minutes from CPRC meetings.

Provide budgetary, acquisition, and inventory support to the AO and ACOS, Medicine Service. Compute funding requirements for contracts, equipment, and supply using a range of budgetary, acquisition and supply principles, concepts and methodologies to forecast and compute need to intervene in response to fluctuations in rates for contracts, i.e., Base and Option Year(s), contractor equipment cost, and equipment/supply usage and cost, availability of established suppliers, alternative sources and other similar conditions. Prepare recommendations for procurement of equipment/material. Prepare annual input for acquisition planning for well-established levels and types of standard equipment and expendable supplies necessary to support admin functions. Prepare/maintain equipment request listing(s) for the Service, verifying with each program the items listed are still current and accurate. Analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual contract and supply expenditures and schedules to determine funds usage requirements and execution of budget plans for assigned supplies and each formal contract, using a wide range of acquisition and budgetary principles, concepts, and methodologies to evaluate status of funds available. Analyze, coordinate, and control management of assigned fund control points for the Service. Advise AO when original obligations require additional funds to support patient care services. Provide draft budget call projections for the Service annually. Maintain contract status log for all formal contracts; provide monthly status report to the AO. Implement federal and agency program for control and inventory, return and reutilization of equipment. Use established methods to maintain CMRs. Assist with physical inventory on an annual basis all CMRs, working directly with appropriate medical center staff and vendors to ensure equipment and/or instruments are repaired/replaced/disposed of as needed.