Financial Analyst Senior - Decision Support Services
About The Position
The Financial Analyst Senior provides advanced, system-level financial and decision-support analytics to enterprise finance leadership, executive stakeholders, and cross-functional teams. The role focuses on enterprise performance, standardization, and strategic decision-making across the health system. It applies advanced knowledge of healthcare finance, decision-support systems, and enterprise data structures to turn complex, multi-entity information into actionable insights that support financial sustainability, operational performance, and long-term system strategy. The position leads system-level analyses and supports budgeting, financial planning, forecasting, strategic initiatives, executive reporting, and governance reporting. It also serves as a steward of enterprise financial and operational metrics, promoting consistent definitions, data quality, and reporting practices. The role provides informal mentorship to Financial Analyst Accountant(s) and supports other system-level initiatives as assigned.
Requirements
- 3–5 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, such as Strata, PeopleSoft, or comparable platforms.
- Advanced financial modeling, trend analysis, and performance reporting skills.
- Ability to communicate complex analytics to executive and operational audiences.
- Expert knowledge of healthcare finance, budgeting, and cost-control principles.
Responsibilities
- 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 system-wide consistency.
- 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 by 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.
- Steward enterprise financial and operational metrics by supporting standard definitions, data quality, and reporting consistency.
- Identify opportunities to improve decision-support processes, automation, and reporting efficiency.
- Provide informal mentorship to Financial Analyst Accountant(s) and support other system-level initiatives as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
