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Description

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Accenture's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

Job Description


Systems Integration Consulting professionals are responsible for delivering large-scale, complex programs that marry processes with technology to help our clients achieve high performance.

Healthcare Processes professionals are involved in the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions. This capability also includes the payment of those services through commercial and nonprofit insurers and self-funding governmental agencies.

Healthcare Provider Operations professionals develop and deliver business solutions supporting the business operations that keep a hospital running outside the scope of clinical care including medical records management, patient revenue cycle, facility management.

Healthcare Delivery professionals design/develop or operate processes that comprise the clinical aspect of providing care to patients; including hospital departments, clinical services, and other functions that are integral to the patient journey.

Key responsibilities may include:

* Supervising process and functional design activities
* Creating functional requirements as an input to application design
* Developing and testing detailed functional designs for business solution components and prototypes
* Supervising application build, test, and deploy activities
* Planning and executing data conversion activities (e.g., test data)
* Driving test planning and execution
* Willingness to travel up to 100% to meeting client requirements

Qualifications

Basic Qualification:

* At least 1-4 years work experience in a healthcare provider environment as a clinician
* At least 1-4 years work experience with Epic implementations or upgrades to include one or more of the following modules: Ambulatory, ASAP, Clin Doc, Op Time, Orders, Pharmacy, Rx
* Undergraduate degree

Preferred Skills:


* Certification in any of the Epic modules listed above is preferred
* Epic upgrade experience is also preferred
* Understanding/knowledge of implementation methodology
* Ability to build strong relationships with clients

Professional Skills:


* Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
* Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
* Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
* Desire to work in an information systems environment

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job
Systems Integration

Primary Location
USA-CA - San Francisco

Other Locations
USA-AZ -Phoenix, USA-CA - Sacramento, USA-WA - Seattle, USA-CA - Palo Alto, USA-CA - El Segundo

Organization
Consulting

Schedule
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Description

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Job Description

Consulting professionals at Accenture belong to one of three workgroups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting or Technology Consulting. These workgroups enable us to deliver the increasingly specialised skills that clients demand while providing our people with varied career opportunities.

Our management consultants have the opportunity to work and collaborate with colleagues from across the full spectrum of consulting activity: identifying and creatively solving complex problems, designing and re-engineering critical processes, and fundamentally transforming the way a company operates. Our management consultants are more than just theorists - they turn theory into action. Acting as trusted advisors to our clients, they work directly with FORTUNEŠ Global 500 companies across many different industry sectors. They concentrate on getting a holistic view of a client's business and industry environment and use their expertise and critical thinking skills to design and deliver realistic, achievable business strategies and solutions that address key client priorities.

Much of the work we do is at the cutting edge of innovation and thinking. We involve our consultants in publishing and sharing this knowledge as thought leadership to benefit clients, industry and fellow colleagues.

Healthcare Process professionals are involved in the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions. This capability also includes the payment of those services through commercial and nonprofit insurers and self-funding governmental agencies.

Healthcare Payer Operations professionals design and implement solutions to support healthcare payer business operations including managing the entity, developing the market, managing healthcare delivery, patient transactions, and core business processes.

As a Management Consulting Manager, you will be at the core of shaping and delivering business transformation projects to respond to our clients' business challenges. You are likely to lead a range of activities from identifying client value creation opportunities to project managing the business solution implementation.

Responsibilities include:

Shape and Deliver Business Transformation Projects
? Identifying and prioritising client value creation opportunities based on research and analysis activities and an understanding of client visions, performance gaps, and needs.
? Shaping and leading the business solution implementation: defining and supervising business architecture, process design and development activities, developing capabilities and performance measurements/KPIs.
? Developing implementation plans and leading teams to execute project deliverables to schedule, budget and performance goals. Managing project financials. Assessing and managing risk throughout the project lifecycle and making adjustments as needed. Ensuring planned business outcomes are achieved.

? Directing business pilots and client deployment activities.
? Designing the projects overall communication strategy and approach to the desired change journey.

Client Relationship Development and Management
? Managing key client stakeholder relationships and communications at all stages of the project. Facilitating complex meetings, presentations and workshops to build client commitment for the change.
? Cultivating follow-on opportunities at clients and developing compelling business case/proposals to new business opportunities.

Practice Building
? Participating in practice building activities (e.g. conference participation, thought leadership development, market offering development, recruiting).
? Identify and begin developing expertise in specific practice specialty areas to drive firm recognised expertise development.
? Providing coaching and mentoring to analysts and consultants

Qualifications

? [Deep skills in Care Management, Claims, Enrollment & Billing, Healthcare Payer Operations, Pharmacy Benefit Management, Provider Networking]
? Ability to meet travel requirements, when applicable
? [Include years of experience]
? [Include required degree/education]
? [MBA qualification useful]

Professional Skill Requirements
? Solid financial acumen and financial analysis and diagnosis skills.
? Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
? Adept at using experience and knowledge of industry, geographic and technology trends to assess and shape business solutions.
? Effective leadership and management skills with a proven ability to mobilise and energise project teams to deliver results.
? Strong executive level relationship building skills.
? Ability to create and deliver high-impact communications to senior audiences (written and oral) and facilitate complex discussions.

[Optional general training message:]
All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialisation. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programmes at every level to help you acquire and build specialised skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with team-mates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Job
Business Analysis

Primary Location
USA

Organisation
Consulting

Schedule
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Description


Location: Negotiable

Organization: Health and Public Service

The Health & Public Service operating group serves health organizations, government agencies, institutions and nonprofit organizations worldwide providing a broad range of consulting, technology, system integration and business processing services.

Job Description

Consulting professionals at Accenture belong to one of three workgroups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting or Technology Consulting. These workgroups enable us to deliver the increasingly specialized skills that clients demand while providing our people with varied career opportunities.

Our management consultants have the opportunity to work and collaborate with colleagues from across the full spectrum of consulting activity: identifying and creatively solving complex problems, designing and re-engineering critical processes, and fundamentally transforming the way a company operates. Our management consultants are more than just theorists - they turn theory into action. Acting as trusted advisors to our clients, they work directly with FORTUNEŠ Global 500 companies across many different industry sectors. They concentrate on getting a holistic view of a client's business and industry environment and use their expertise and critical thinking skills to design and deliver realistic, achievable business strategies and solutions that address key client priorities.

Much of the work we do is at the cutting edge of innovation and thinking. We involve our consultants in publishing and sharing this knowledge as thought leadership to benefit clients, industry and fellow colleagues.

Responsibilities of the Revenue Capture Charge Capture CDM Subject Matter Advisor may include:

* Conduct charge capture assessment activities, including
* Interviews, outcomes analysis, process flows analysis
* Chart Audit reviews
* Direct clinical observations
* Develop respective leading practice recommendations to support identified findings

* Develop and implement process flows and policies/procedures to ensure timely and appropriate capture of all chargeable services
* Includes developing working relationships with revenue producing departments, Finance, IT, and HIM to establish charge capture mechanisms and ensure orderly and timely recording of revenue
* Design training material and conduct training sessions

* Develop and implement Charge Reconciliation processes for interface reconciliation and leading practice order/charge reconciliation processes for ancillary departments
* Build tools (reports and scorecard) for monitoring charge capture key performance indicators and recommend key metrics
* Analyze Charge Description Master (CDM) to ensure it meets compliance standards
* Provides technical expertise related to maintenance of CDM
* Conduct detailed line-item review
* Identify need for addition, modification or deletion of charge codes
* Confirm all codes required for billing and reporting are current per annual and quarterly code set updates (AMA and CMS)
* Review ancillary system item files to ensure linkages are accurate (e.g. supplies, pharmacy)
* Develop policies and procedures to monitor consistency of charges throughout hospital

* Conduct chart audits comparing documentation to the itemized bill to the UB-04
* Identify coding issues
* Recommend solution and implement corrective action to prevent future rejections/denials and to insure accurate and expedient reimbursement
* Establish a Chart Audit Program (both concurrent and retrospective)

* Calculate financial metrics for all revenue related opportunities
* Ability to travel 100%

Qualifications

Basic
Qualifications:


*
1 year of clinical experience including chart audits and revenue cycle processes experience

*
5 years of experience in billing and documentation systems and in general accounting principles

*
1 year of experience with OPPS and NCCI edits

*
Bachelor's degree

Preferred Skills:


*
Charge Description Master experience

*
Degree in Nursing or Medical Records Coding

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with team-mates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job
Industry Specific

Primary Location
USA-GA - Atlanta

Organization
Consulting

Schedule
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Description

Workforce: Management Consulting

Organization: Supply Chain Management - Sourcing and Procurement

Locations: Location Negotiable

Accenture is one of the leading providers of management consulting services worldwide with more than 15,000 consultants in 49 countries. Our management consultants create, design and build new business models and help our clients integrate and operate them. You'll have the opportunity to turn theory into practice and shape strategies right through from inception to execution. How? By acting as a trusted advisor in identifying and creatively solving complex problems, designing/restructuring critical processes, and fundamentally transforming the way a company operates, in order to help them become a high-performance business. Our suite of services deliver tangible business outcomes for our clients and are built on both industry and business expertise.

The professionals in our Supply Chain Management service line work with clients across a broad range of industries to develop and implement supply chain operations strategies that enable profitable growth in new and existing markets. Committed to helping clients achieve high performance through supply chain mastery, we combine global industry expertise and skills in supply chain strategy, sourcing and procurement, supply chain planning, manufacturing, product lifecycle management, fulfillment, and service management to help organizations transform their supply chain capabilities.

For more information on our Supply Chain Practice - http://accenture.com/Global/Services/By_Subject/Supply_Chain_Mgmt/default.htm

Management Consulting professionals focus on strategy and take responsibility for organizational change and business transformation. Supply Chain Management professionals help clients develop strategies and operating models integrating planning, sourcing, procurement, product design, manufacturing and fulfillment functions within an organization, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain. Supply Chain professionals design and implement strategies that transform buying and selling with differentiating product evaluations, standardization, utilization, sourcing and procurement strategies, processes, technologies, organizations and end-user behaviors.

Key responsibilities may include:

*
Analyzing and validating quality of the data collected to support supply chain assessments and strategic sourcing, product and service utilization based on evidence based practice and industry trends, procurement-to-payment processes, and fulfillment programs

* Assist with the development of specific solutions to address and prioritize opportunities for cost savings and process improvements
* Supervise process design activities
* Assist with the development of capabilities and key performance measurements/KPIs
* Develop and implement tracking and reporting tools for monitoring actual to proposed improvements
* Facilitate and support the use of value analysis processes to identify and implement value creation opportunities for clients
* Prepare the client for implementation (planning, tools, communications, training and measurement)

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

* Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Clinical Lead (Physician, Nurse, Pharmacy, Lab, Radiology)
* Minimum of 2 years of experience in Healthcare Operational Consulting, Materials Management or Supply Chain Category Lead Role with sourcing/administrative responsibility for a highly complex/supply-intensive healthcare division.
* Minimum of 4 years of business and personnel management experience in healthcare or a related field
* Minimum of 4 years of experience with current Microsoft Office suite of products: notably Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook
* Bachelor's Degree Required

Preferred Skills/Qualifications

* Experience in one or more of the following: Procurement Process Development, Procurement Transformation, Supplier Relationship Management, Procurement Performance Optimization, Strategic Sourcing, Procure to Pay, Outsourcing - Procurement, Procurement Diagnostics and Strategic Planning
* Strong aptitude, ability, motivation and interest in performing quantitative analysis within a business environment
* Ability to critically think and create solutions based on evidence based industry standards and practices.
* Hands-on experience in multiple relational database platforms such as Access.
* Ability to validate and derive insight from large amounts of data from diverse sources
* Strong experience in collecting, manipulating, interpreting and cleansing data from multiple and diverse sources
* Familiar with financial data contained in systems such as General Ledgers, Accounts Payable, Purchase Orders or Freight Payments
* Master's Degree (including MBA) preferred
* eProcurement Source to Pay tools (e.g., SAP SRM, Ariba)
* Ability to travel 80%-100%

Professional Skill Requirements

* Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
* Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
* Desire to work in non-standard, complex and challenging environment
* Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Job
Supply Chain Management

Primary Location
USA-IL - Chicago

Other Locations
USA-OH - Cleveland, USA-PA - Philadelphia, USA-MI - Southfield, USA-TX - Houston, USA-NY -New York, USA-NJ - Florham Park, USA-MA - Boston, USA-GA - Atlanta, USA-VA - Reston, USA-DC - Washington, DC

Organization
Consulting

Schedule
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Description

Organization: Application Outsourcing


Location: Palo Alto, CA

People within Application Outsourcing are responsible for the day-to-day provision of long-term outsourcing services to one or several clients. As part of our Application Outsourcing team, you could be helping to provide the programming, management and maintenance services needed to implement and support installations of both custom and packaged application software

Our AO resources can expect to:

* Incorporate skills which support the programming, management and maintenance services required to implement and support new installations or maintain and improve existing legacy systems for our clients.
* Receive ongoing training to build and extend professional, technical and management skills in all areas
* Enjoy our comprehensive and generous benefits package

The Business Analyst (Rx) designs, configures, and tests software products for the EpicCare Rx application supported by a High Performance Team (HPT). Their primary responsibility is to review high-level designs, complete detailed design, construct enhancements where appropriate, coordinate vendor releases, execute tests for those releases/enhancements, and migrate changes to production. Business Analysts (Rx) are also required to provide production support and resolve problem tickets for those applications to which they are assigned. Business Analysts (Rx) are expected to develop deep technical and functional skills in support of the applications supported by the HPT. They are also expected to cross-train so that no single Business Analyst (Rx) is solely knowledgeable in any one application. The Business Analyst must be certified in Epic Rx. Will require shift work and pager duty and off hours and weekend work if required, as this is a 24 x 7 support team.

Roles and Responsibilities

Analysis & Detailed Design

ˇ Analyze user requirements

ˇ Work with the Application Architect to develop detailed designs that conform to application architecture guidelines

ˇ Create functional and technical specifications

ˇ Perform root cause analysis on all production support related issues

ˇ Design application modifications and new functionality as appropriate

ˇ Deepen functional understanding of customer's business issues

Application Configuration and Support

ˇ Develop and modify configurations that meets design requirements

ˇ Create and maintain all necessary documentation and training materials for application changes

ˇ Create and maintain all necessary documentation for projects

ˇ Provide production support for applications 24hrs a day, seven days a week when assigned as a contact

- Team Lead and Application Architect will act as secondary support and will carry pagers. Individual Business Analyst (Rx) may carry pagers and will be called at home if a job fails after normal business hours

ˇ Conduct code related peer reviews; resolve issues

ˇ Respond to user/operator requests and inquiries, as appropriate

ˇ Deepen technical understanding of application environment across all applications supported by the HPT

ˇ Document coding issues and resolutions

Testing

ˇ Determine test approach for unit testing stage for releases/enhancements

ˇ Develop test plan and test scripts for unit testing stage

ˇ Execute unit test

ˇ Verify unit test results

ˇ Prepare cycle test environment for user acceptance test (UAT) when necessary

ˇ Assist in UAT process with business customers

ˇ Obtain sign-off from business customers on UAT

ˇ Resolve testing issues and correct defects

ˇ Document any testing issues and resolutions

Continuous Improvement

ˇ Adhere to methodology and process standards

ˇ Provide input to new process development

ˇ Ensure systems meet functional and technical standards

ˇ Identify improvements for processes, standards, deliverables, etc.

ˇ Develop reusable materials

ˇ Continually increase knowledge of client's business

Production Implementation

ˇ Update Change Control schedule with upcoming production releases

ˇ Initiate and complete hardware/software request

ˇ Obtain approval for hardware/software request from Team Lead

ˇ Verify hardware/software request executed and components moved to production

ˇ Initiate and complete Turnover Package Process when necessary

ˇ Monitor production of recently migrated components

Team Collaborator

ˇ Assist and train other software developers, as needed

ˇ Participate in cross training initiatives

ˇ Assist the Team Lead in estimating and scoping

ˇ May have responsibility for individual project work planning and scheduling as delegated by the Team Lead

ˇ Communicate with users/clients

ˇ Provide timely work request status to Team Lead

- Provide Team Lead with required documentation on all incoming work requests

- Escalate issues to Team Lead when required

ˇ Update work request tracking tool with required information

- Provide status updates as warranted, once per week minimum

- Provide project lifecycle updates as necessary

ˇ Update time sheet on a daily basis, accurately reflecting proper task workload

ˇ May have responsibility of ownership of team processes

ˇ Contribute to the development of training materials for new processes developed by the team

Qualifications

Basic
Qualifications:


* Certified in Epic Rx
* Doctor of Pharmacy degree required
* Minimum of 4 years experience in a support, post implementation role

Professional Skill Requirements

* Clinical or Health & Life Science experience is an advantage
* EpicCare Inpatient or Ambulatory Implementation or support experience preferred
* Epic Beacon Oncology certification strongly preferred
* Proven ability to work independently and as a team member
* Ability to be flexible and work analytically in a problem-solving environment

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job
Design, Development & Implementation

Primary Location
USA-CA - Palo Alto

Organization
Outsourcing for Accenture Clients (Services)

Schedule
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