Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager

Summary

BRG's Integrated Health Solutions (IHS) practices help healthcare providers, payers, and investors to improve margins, clinical and operational performance, and long-term strategic positioning. Our teams bring together consultants with backgrounds in clinical and business operations, hospital leadership, medicine, nursing, economics, process engineering, and data science. Over the past decade, we have assessed and implemented nearly $1 billion in cost savings and revenue improvement for our clients. As the practice continues to grow, robust internal operations are essential to scaling delivery, maintaining quality, and supporting our consulting professionals.

Description

The Financial Planning and Senior Manager ("the Sr. Manager") will be the key finance partner for BRG's IHS practices and their community leaders with respect to a wide variety of accounting, planning and financial management topics associated with the healthcare practices and their matters. This position may be based in Washington DC, Dallas, Chicago, or Emeryville CA.

The Sr. Manager will be part of BRG's finance organization with direct accountability to the Financial Planning and Analysis Department with dotted line reporting to the IHS Practice Leader. The Sr. Manager will provide close support to the leaders of individual practice groups in the IHS practice and to other key experts charged with practice financial management.

Responsibilities

The Sr. Manager will either take the lead on or be heavily involved in all the following:

• Engagement pricing and setup: Develop or review pricing for nonstandard and complex engagements, including fixed-fee arrangements, and partner with engagement teams at inception to ensure appropriate financial setup.

• Engagement financial oversight: Monitor engagement progress and financial performance, including independent contractor use, and conduct regular reviews with engagement and practice leaders to identify barriers, address risks, and inform revenue forecasts.

• Revenue recognition: Support appropriate revenue recognition for nonstandard and complex engagements in coordination with FP&A and Controllers.

• Budgeting and forecasting: Manage operational and corporate budgeting, budget controls, and periodic reforecasting; maintain revenue and other financial projections to meet practice and corporate requirements.

• Reporting, analytics, and tools: Continue developing and implementing recurring financial and operational reporting, dashboards, and analytical processes that support practice management and business strategy. Maintain tools and train engagement leaders to promote consistent adoption and use.

• Financial and management reporting: Support internal and external reporting, including actionable variance analysis and recommendations to improve cost efficiency and profitability.

• Utilization and profitability: Calculate and report monthly and year-to-date available staff utilization to service-line leaders, and support practice profitability calculations used in compensation processes.

• Strategic planning and growth: Develop multiyear financial projections, business cases for practice expansion, and ad hoc models and analyses to support operational and strategic decisions.

• Team management: Supervise and develop one Senior Financial Analyst based in New York City, providing direction, setting priorities, and overseeing the quality and timeliness of deliverables.

Qualifications

The Sr. Manager will require sophisticated abilities to work in a matrix. The Sr. Manager must earn and retain the confidence and respect of practice leaders while working closely and transparently with corporate units to deliver centralized services to the healthcare community, ensure the firm discharges its compliance obligations and to support effective and efficient management of the firm.

• CPA, MBA or equivalent advanced degree or credential (for example CFA) preferred.
• Minimum of 7-10 years of professional financial experience grounded in operationally focused financial management, which could include planning, analysis, strategy and budgeting roles, business division financial controller experience, or other roles providing close financial support for leadership with P&L responsibilities.
• Experience in a matrixed environment and/or professional services business (or other project-oriented business reliant on significant revenue-generating individuals) is a significant positive but not required. While not necessary. exposure to and understanding of the economic and/or management consulting industry would be a significant positive.
• Willingness and ability to build complex models and analyses.
• Excellent communication and written/verbal presentation skills. Able to participate actively in business decisions speaking from an analytical, data-driven and accountability-oriented vantage point with the ability to offer strategic insights and recommendations.
• Experience with and solid understanding of US GAAP.
• Experience must include participation in, understanding of and respect for enterprise control and governance processes.
• Able to juggle multiple projects and competing requirements, often under deadlines, in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Salary Range: $160,000 to $195,000

Candidate must be able to submit verification of his/her legal right to work in the U.S., without company sponsorship.