The Financial Analyst Sr provides advanced, system level financial and decision support analytics to enterprise finance leadership, executive stakeholders, and cross functional teams. This role focuses on enterprise performance, standardization, and strategic decision-making across the health system. Applies advanced knowledge of healthcare finance, decision support systems, and enterprise data structures to translate complex, multi-entity information into actionable insights that support financial sustainability, operational performance, and long-term system strategy.
Essential Functions:- Lead and deliver system-level financial and operational analyses, including service line performance, productivity, cost, margin, and volume trends across hospitals and entities.
- Provide advanced analytical support for departmental and service line budget development, including modeling assumptions, validating inputs, and ensuring consistency across the system.
- Support enterprise financial planning, forecasting, and strategic initiatives through integrated financial and operational analytics.
- Partner with Finance leadership, operational leaders, and clinical stakeholders to translate complex data into actionable insights and recommendations.
- Create, manage, and validate enterprise-level datasets, synthesizing data from multiple financial and operational systems.
- Develop and present system-level reports, dashboards, and analyses for executive and governance audiences.
- Analyze budget-to-actual and performance variances, identify key drivers, and communicate implications to leadership.
- Act as a steward of enterprise financial and operational metrics, supporting standard definitions, data quality, and reporting consistency.
- Promote continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance decision support processes, automation, and reporting efficiency.
- Provide informal mentorship to Financial Analyst Accountant(s) and support other system-level initiatives as assigned.
Qualifications- Bachelor's Degree Business, Finance, Healthcare Administration, or other related field.
- 5 years of progressive experience in financial analysis, decision support, or healthcare analytics.
- Experience in a health system or multi-entity healthcare environment.
- Experience with decision support and ERP systems (e.g., Strata, PeopleSoft or comparable platforms).
- Vizient ODB (benchmarking) experience preferred.
- Productivity or Operational Improvement experience preferred.
Skills and Abilities:- Advanced financial modeling, trend analysis, and performance reporting skills.
- Strong ability to communicate complex analytics to executive and operational audiences.
- Expert knowledge of healthcare finance, budgeting, and cost control principles.
