EHR Finance Team Lead

EHR Finance Team Lead

Location: Swift Square One
Job type: Specified Purpose

Overview of role:

The Finance Team Lead will play a pivotal role in supporting the Cúram Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation across UPMC Ireland. You will report to the EHR Business Stream Lead. This position ensures that all components of the finance functions are accurately designed, tested, and transitioned into the new EHR environment to support accurate financial management, regulatory compliance, and financial sustainability. This role provides strategic and tactical leadership for the Finance workstream, ensuring alignment with clinical operations, financial systems, and overall programme goals. The individual will act as a subject matter expert (SME) in finance and ERP-EHR integration to ensure a smooth, efficient, and sustainable transformation of finance functions. This is an ideal opportunity for a finance expert who understands the intersections of finance, clinical operations, and health IT systems.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

General Accountabilities

You will have responsibility for delivering the Finance workstream within UPMC Ireland. You will implement the programme within the project scope and governance, including identification of your workstream’s stakeholders. You will establish your project team and allocate responsibilities. You will collaborate with the other business, clinical and technical workstream leads where required.
For the workflows to be deployed, you will be responsible for the end-user experience, the finance modules, milestone tracking, and reporting workstream status and issues, risks and benefits. You will lead the decision-making process towards the resolution of issues impacting your workstream alongside the Business Stream Lead.

Team Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Serve as the primary liaison to finance staff, ensuring system design meets finance documentation and workflow needs.
• Leads finance engagement sessions, adoption planning, and go-live readiness efforts.
• Recommend policy changes and process improvements related to finance use of the system to drive efficiencies and improve outcomes.
• Coordinate a cross-functional finance implementation team across finance and accounting teams during the transition.
• Facilitate regular workgroup meetings, track milestones, document decisions, and escalate risks.
• Act as a liaison between finance staff and the EHR implementation team.
• Support development of training materials and assist with education for finance and other relevant end-users.
• Provide hands-on support during go-live and stabilisation phases, ensuring continuity of finance operations and rapid issue resolution.
• Collaborate with the training team to ensure finance staff and other relevant users are adequately trained on finance workflows within Meditech and associated applications.
• Support the planning and delivery of handover training to the future EHR BAU team members.
• Collaborate with finance governance to support ongoing optimization and training needs.

Workflow & System Design:

• Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for finance-related functions in MEDITECH including general ledger (GL), accounts payable (AP), fixed assets, cost accounting, budgeting, and financial reporting.
• Collaborate with MEDITECH analysts and operational leaders to design and validate finance workflows within MEDITECH Expanse.
• Review system functionality related to finance functions.
• Ensure operational workflows translate effectively into financial processes such as charge capture, revenue recognition, and cost allocation.
• Support the integration of clinical workflows with financial processes to ensure financial integrity and optimised workflows alongside financial policy and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with revenue cycle, clinical and technical teams to support end-to-end financial integrity across modules.

Implementation Support, Data Validation & Testing:

• Oversee financial system configuration, data migration validation (e.g., GL accounts, cost centers, historical data), and integration with existing or planned enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms where applicable.
• Lead testing activities for finance modules, including integrated and user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Identify and troubleshoot issues in collaboration with IT, finance, and clinical teams.
• Ensure finance modules are integrated with other financial systems (e.g., ERP, Claimsure) to support seamless service delivery and documentation.
• Validate statutory, management and operational reporting requirement delivery for Finance functions.
• Facilitate standards development processes and actively engages clinical SMEs in design and optimization discussions.
• Support go-live readiness and stabilization efforts, including real-time issue resolution and workflow adjustments.
• Support the identification of appropriate hardware solutions to finance users in their operational settings.

Documentation & Governance:

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date project documentation, including current state/future state maps, risk/issue logs, decision registers, benefits registers, and change logs.
• Support governance processes by preparing materials for the Business Design Forum and senior management meetings.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for finance readiness, adoption, and post-go-live performance.
• Assist in documenting lessons learned and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements related to finance, clinical safety and digital health.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in healthcare financial operations.
• Minimum 2 years of experience supporting or leading system implementations (preferably MEDITECH or similar ERP/EHR platforms).
• In-depth knowledge of healthcare finance models, and compliance standards.
• Strong project coordination, stakeholder engagement, and change management skills.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills with the ability to work across clinical and operational teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with MEDITECH Finance modules (e.g., GL, AP, FA) or other equivalent major EHR systems (e.g., Epic, Oracle Health).
• Certification such as CA/ACA, CPA, or project management credentials (e.g., PMP).
• Experience with clinical-to-financial workflows and revenue recognition.
• Knowledge of clinical decision support, change management methodologies (e.g., Prosci, ADKAR), and regulatory requirements (e.g., documentation standards, medication safety protocols).

UPMC is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

At UPMC we provide a total rewards program that is not only market competitive, but fair and provides growth opportunities for all our colleagues.

Compensation – Competitive pay for the work employees do – base pay, performance related pay and premium pay where applicable.

Benefits – Fully paid maternity and paternity leave for new parents. Competitive Pension Plan, company funded Death in Service Benefit x 3 times. Critical Illness cover for all employees up to the age of 66.

Performance and Recognition – Rewards for performance that supports the goals and mission of UPMC through our annual ACES programme.

Work-Life Balance – Enhanced annual leave up to a maximum of 27 days. Flexible working opportunities to support you to work around external family commitments.

Development and Career Opportunities – Opportunities for each employee to reach their career goals through continued learning and/or advancement.

About UPMC

UPMC is a renowned multinational academic medical centre committed to delivering people-focused care that’s close to home. Headquartered in Pittsburgh and affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC shapes the future of health through clinical and technological innovation, research and education. UPMC expands its expertise globally, bringing world-class care across continents through its UPMC International division — an owned and operated network of hospitals and ambulatory care centres in Italy, Ireland and Croatia. UPMC International brings new access to the signature specialty services of UPMC Hillman Cancer Centre, UPMC Sports Medicine and others to more people in more places around the world.

In Ireland UPMC has provided high-quality healthcare in the South East since 2006. UPMC’s operations in Ireland now include UPMC Whitfield Hospital in Waterford, UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic in Dublin, UPMC Kildare Hospital in Clane, and UPMC Aut Even Hospital in Kilkenny. Outpatient care is available at the UPMC Carlow Outreach Centre, UPMC Hillman Cancer Centre radiotherapy locations in Waterford and Cork, UPMC The 4th Practice in Mallow, and across UPMC Sports Medicine Clinics in Dublin, Waterford, Limerick, Tipperary, Cork, and Mayo. UPMC has also established a nationwide Concussion Network. UPMC's Global Technology Operation Centre is based in Kilkenny.