Healthcare Finance & Performance Analytics Manager

Huron•Washington, DC

1d•$198,000 - $258,000•Remote

About The Position

Huron’s Healthcare Financial Advisory Services team supports healthcare organizations facing financial pressure, operational complexity, and changing reimbursement models. The team helps healthcare leaders understand their financial position, prioritize high-impact decisions, stabilize operations, and improve financial performance by combining healthcare industry experience with financial, operational, and technology capabilities. The Healthcare Finance & Performance Analytics Manager will help develop and scale financial diagnostics, performance analytics, and technology-enabled solutions for hospitals and health systems. The role analyzes complex financial, clinical, and operational data to reconcile results, identify and quantify performance drivers, and communicate findings as clear actions for healthcare executives. The position supports capabilities connecting financial performance to operational and clinical drivers, repeatable diagnostics for net patient service revenue and operating expenses, and a technology-enabled NPSR valuation solution. It requires healthcare finance expertise, advanced analytical capabilities, executive communication skills, and the ability to work independently through complex and ambiguous business questions. Travel varies by project, and candidates may live anywhere in the contiguous 48 states near a major airport.

Requirements

7–12+ years of experience in healthcare finance, financial planning and analysis, reimbursement, net revenue, performance management, decision support, revenue cycle finance, healthcare consulting, or a relevant combination of these areas.
Strong understanding of hospital and health system financial statements, operating models, and financial performance drivers.
Knowledge of net patient service revenue concepts, including gross-to-net revenue, contractual allowances, reserves, bad debt, accounts receivable, yield, and payer and service mix.
Experience reconciling financial results, conducting variance analysis, building financial bridges, and identifying underlying performance drivers.
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience with large or complex financial datasets, such as general ledger, claims, billing, and accounts receivable data.
Ability to connect financial performance with operational and clinical activity and assess the financial implications of changes in volume, utilization, capacity, labor, reimbursement, and cost.
Strong Microsoft PowerPoint, written communication, and executive-level presentation skills.
Ability to synthesize complex analysis into clear, concise, actionable recommendations for senior leaders.
Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, exercise sound judgment, and develop defensible conclusions from incomplete information.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across finance, operational, analytical, and technical teams.
Willingness to travel as needed based on project requirements.

Responsibilities

Analyze hospital and health system financial performance, including net patient service revenue, gross-to-net revenue, contractual allowances, reserves, bad debt, accounts receivable, yield, and payer and service mix.
Reconcile financial results across general ledger, claims, accounts receivable, cost accounting, and operational data sources.
Build financial bridges and variance analyses that distinguish timing, accounting, methodological, and data effects from changes in underlying operating performance.
Identify and quantify financial, clinical, and operational performance drivers, including labor, capacity, throughput, pharmacy, supply, payer, and service-mix factors.
Develop independent, well-supported financial and operational conclusions from incomplete business questions.
Translate complex analyses into executive-level findings covering what happened, why it happened, what is controllable, recommended actions and owners, and expected financial impact.
Develop executive-ready presentations, financial models, written recommendations, and other deliverables for CFOs, controllers, revenue cycle leaders, and operational executives.
Create repeatable financial diagnostic processes spanning data intake and validation, driver identification, financial quantification, and recommended action.
Translate analytical methods into defined requirements for data, calculation logic, validation rules, outputs, and reporting.
Collaborate with healthcare finance experts, data analysts, product leaders, and technical teams to turn financial methodologies into scalable technology-enabled solutions.
Support development of financial performance intelligence capabilities connecting reconciled financial outcomes to their operational and clinical causes.
Contribute structure, financial discipline, and practical judgment to client engagements and internal solution development.