Senior Healthcare Consultant
About The Position
Our Senior Healthcare Consultant helps healthcare organizations improve how they operate and deliver care. In this role, you’ll support healthcare clients primarily through our labor productivity benchmarking practice, which leads to operational and clinical efficiency initiatives. You will also be collaborating closely with project teams and contributing data-driven insights that lead to practical, actionable recommendations. Plante Moran is one of the nation’s largest audit, tax, consulting, and wealth management firms, known for its world-class culture and consistent recognition as one of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For.” The firm operates on a “Workplace for Your Day” model, emphasizing flexibility and balance while maintaining a principally in-person approach for individual and collective development. Plante Moran is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, striving to create an inclusive environment where all staff members have equitable opportunities to succeed and feel a sense of belonging.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting, healthcare, or related field
- 2+ years of experience in a health system or hospital setting preferred
- Ability to travel frequently throughout the region, including approximately 50% overnight travel
- Advanced proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, Power Query, complex formulas) with strong interest and aptitude in data analysis and data modeling
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-demand client environment
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship, with the exception of qualified candidates who are bilingual in either Japanese and English or Chinese and English
Nice To Haves
- Prior consulting experience a plus
Responsibilities
- Leverage an accounting background to support labor productivity benchmarking analyses, including labor expense review, variance analysis, and interpretation of staffing productivity metrics
- Assist in delivering strategic solutions for healthcare clients with a focus on operational and clinical efficiency
- Develop and maintain Excel and Power BI based benchmarking models and tools (e.g., staffing grids, productivity dashboards, variance templates) to support repeatable client deliverables
- Analyze labor expense and staffing data (payroll, hours, volumes, and budget) to identify drivers of productivity performance and improvement opportunities
- Validate and reconcile client-provided data for benchmarking (e.g., mapping accounts, normalizing pay codes, ensuring consistent definitions) to ensure accurate and comparable results
- Work collaboratively with project teams to execute engagement objectives, develop work plans, coordinate across workstreams, and perform detailed analyses
- Support the development of recommendations by synthesizing quantitative and qualitative findings
- Build and maintain strong client relationships while participating in networking and business development activities
- Collaborate with other services such as healthcare finance, reimbursement and revenue cycle team members to support insights, reporting, and decision-making
Benefits
- Robust benefits package
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Flexible Time Off
- Various pre-determined holidays
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible benefits plans
- Business-related travel expense, lodging, and meal reimbursement for business-related use
- Pension plan (for eligible administrative and paraprofessional staff)
- Discretionary bonus plan (for eligible staff)
- Option to elect health insurance for some contingent staff positions
- Limited paid sick time for some contingent staff positions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
