Sr. Financial Analyst

Mission Healthcare•San Diego, CA

5d•$95,000 - $115,000•Onsite

About The Position

Mission Healthcare is the largest home health and hospice company in the western United States, operating in seven states. The company's mission is to care for its people by providing a comprehensive array of services across the healthcare continuum. Mission Healthcare operates under core values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellence, and Service (CARES). Joining the team offers the opportunity to impact patient lives daily and grow a career in a culture of collaboration, compassion, and commitment. The company is expanding its mission family. Mission Healthcare provides competitive benefit packages to support employee well-being. Benefits available to all eligible employees include a 401(k) retirement savings plan, mileage reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), paid vacation, sick leave, holidays, and tuition reimbursement. Additional benefits for employees scheduled 30+ hours per week include medical, dental, and vision insurance, Flexible Spending & Health Savings Accounts, disability, life, and AD&D insurance, and pet insurance. The pay range is $95k-$115k, depending on experience. The schedule is Monday-Friday, 8 am-5 pm, and the location is San Diego, CA.

Requirements

Serves as a critical strategic and operational finance leader embedded directly within the Hospice service line.
Responsible for driving financial performance, budgeting, and corporate reporting for hospice operations.
Acts as a trusted advisor to clinical, regional, and business development leadership.
Functions as a premier finance partner to the sales and business development teams, providing proactive sales enablement, ROI evaluations on marketing initiatives, territory profitability analysis, and pipeline insights.
Completely owns the end-to-end commission and incentive compensation lifecycles—ensuring that sales enablement strategies align perfectly with accurate payouts, growth metrics, data integrity, and healthcare compliance guidelines.
Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or Excel for dashboard creation and data visualization.
Understanding of HIPAA guidelines for data security and confidentiality.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the home health and hospice industry.
Familiarity with healthcare compliance regulations.
Experience with CRM systems for sales and referral tracking.

Responsibilities

Partner with clinical directors, regional vice presidents, and corporate leaders to provide strategic financial guidance, manage hospice Revenue & OPEX budgets, and support program expansions.
Own and maintain robust financial models to drive the annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning processes for hospice programs and branches.
Run ad-hoc scenario analyses to evaluate the financial impact of changes in patient volumes, regulatory reimbursement models, Medicare cap limitations, and operational changes.
Oversee the financial tracking and forecasting of clinical and administrative personnel expenses, optimizing direct care labor hours and headcount planning in alignment with HR and payroll.
Provide dedicated financial support to the sales and business development teams, tracking referral pipelines, conversion rates, and account executive productivity to identify growth opportunities.
Analyze geographic market trends, provider referral patterns, and account-level profitability to guide sales leadership in territory planning and resource allocation.
Evaluate the financial return on marketing spend, community outreach initiatives, and business development programs to maximize admissions growth efficiency.
Oversee and optimize the end-to-end calculation, validation, and submission of hospice admissions, sales, and clinical incentive/commission plans to accounting and payroll.
Model proposed changes to commission and sales incentive structures to evaluate their projected impact on admissions volume, rep retention, and total corporate spend.
Ensure all incentive and commission processes uphold strict regulatory compliance standards specific to healthcare and hospice regulations, ensuring complete transparency and data auditability.
Lead the development, analysis, and presentation of monthly performance trends and variance reports (e.g., Actuals vs. Target admissions, revenue, and spend) for senior leadership.
Deliver accurate, timely, and actionable financial and operational KPIs (such as Average Daily Census, Cost per Patient Day, and Admissions volumes) to drive strategic decision-making.
Design and maintain dynamic dashboards using BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Excel) to effectively communicate hospice financial health, sales pipeline data, and commission metrics.
Lead efforts to reconcile CRM (sales/referral), billing, and financial system discrepancies through detailed analysis, driving collaboration with data owners to ensure data quality and consistency.
Uphold strict confidentiality and safeguard sensitive financial, commercial, and protected health information (PHI) in compliance with HIPAA guidelines.