Financial Analyst

Rural Staffing Services•Port Townsend, WA

18d•Remote

About The Position

Jefferson Healthcare is seeking an experienced Financial Analyst to join their growing and evolving Financial Planning & Analysis team. This role goes beyond traditional reporting, focusing on understanding the 'why' behind financial performance, identifying drivers of revenue changes and variances, and ensuring data accuracy. The analyst will be responsible for investigating discrepancies and following them to their source. The position offers an opportunity to improve processes, enhance reporting, ask critical questions, and support leaders in making better decisions. The ideal candidate will have at least three years of healthcare financial analysis experience, with a strong understanding of hospital revenue, reimbursement, budgeting, forecasting, and operations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Economics, Statistics, or a related field
Minimum three years of progressively responsible financial analysis experience in a healthcare environment
Healthcare budgeting experience
Financial forecasting experience
Financial modeling experience
Variance analysis experience
Knowledge of healthcare financial operations and reimbursement methodologies
Understanding of gross and net patient revenue
Understanding of contractual adjustments and payors
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
Experience with financial reporting and business intelligence applications
Strong reconciliation and data-validation abilities
Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills
Ability to interpret complex financial, operational, and statistical data
Ability to communicate financial information clearly to both financial and non-financial audiences
Ability to organize and manage multiple projects and priorities
Strong attention to detail and accuracy
Ability to work with considerable independence
Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
Ability to work successfully in a primarily remote environment while remaining engaged with the team

Nice To Haves

SQL proficiency
Ability to independently query, extract, and join data from multiple sources
Ability to validate results, reconcile inconsistencies, and troubleshoot discrepancies
Ability to trace questionable information back to its source
Experience in Critical Access Hospital operations
Experience in rural or community healthcare
Experience with Medicare Cost Report
Experience with Position control
Experience with Labor productivity
Experience with Financial components of workforce management
Experience with Healthcare reimbursement methodologies
Experience with Infor / Infor CloudSuite
Experience with Strata / StrataJazz
Experience with Symplr Workforce or Outcomes Analytics
Experience with Tableau
Experience with Power BI
Experience with Epic
Experience with other healthcare financial or business intelligence platforms
Certified Healthcare Financial Professional (CHFP / HFMA)
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
Comparable healthcare finance or accounting certification
Master's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or a related field

Responsibilities

Developing, maintaining, and enhancing financial reports, dashboards, scorecards, and business intelligence tools
Supporting annual operating and capital budgets
Developing financial forecasts and supporting long-range financial planning
Performing budget-to-actual variance analysis
Identifying financial and operational trends, risks, and opportunities
Analyzing gross and net patient revenue
Understanding contractual adjustments, payors, reimbursement, and the operational drivers behind financial performance
Preparing routine and ad hoc analyses for executive leadership, service-line leaders, and department managers
Developing financial models supporting ROI, business planning, capital investments, and organizational growth
Evaluating the financial performance of departments, service lines, strategic initiatives, and investments
Supporting position control and labor productivity analysis
Partnering directly with department leaders to explain financial results, expectations, key drivers, and opportunities
Translating complex financial information into clear and actionable information for non-financial leaders
Reconciling and validating financial and operational data
Identifying inconsistencies or data-quality issues and tracing problems back to their source
Working with data from multiple financial, operational, and business intelligence systems
Maintaining consistent reporting definitions, assumptions, methodologies, and documentation
Helping improve reporting accuracy and financial business processes
Managing multiple priorities independently while recognizing what requires further investigation versus normal variance or noise