[Remote] Senior Financial Analyst
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. St. John's Health is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst who will design and support data collection, analysis, and reporting to provide leadership with accurate information for decision-making. The role involves financial data analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and process improvement to support operational excellence and enhance community care.
Responsibilities
- Help to establish costing methodologies, flexible budgeting and decision support. Act as a lead on analyzing financial information to support strategic decisions and operation improvement projects, provide information to assist senior management in making financial, operational, or policy decisions, and function as a primary finance interface with all departments as it relates to deriving costing methods
- Serve as a resource for internal departments requiring assistance with financial and accounting matters. Suggest ways to improve efficiencies and work to enhance the usefulness of the data. Educate and assist with the identification of financial issues
- Design, prepare and maintain detail/worksheets necessary to support financial presentations and development of other communications as necessary
- Interpret data, analyze results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports. Develop and/or implement databases, data collection systems, data analytics, and other strategies to optimize statistical efficiency and quality
- Develop and maintain institutional and industry knowledge to identify key business costs, target analyses, and interpret and communicate data in a usable way
- Ensure accuracy of units of service for each service line
- Produce labor/ staffing metrics for each service line
- Own the cost accounting analysis process, including data preparation, review, and reporting
- Assist with annual revenue budget, manage and monitor expenses, analyze budget allocation and variance for hospital departments based on statistics
- Analyze transactions, prepare journal entries and assist with monthly closes and audits. Help coordinate year-end audits and assists with workpaper preparation for auditors as needed
- Provide support for annual budget of variable revenue and expenses
- Prepare financial proformas for product/ service analysis
- Lead software implementations / conversions related to decision support
- Work with internal customers to identify opportunities for improvement
- Establish KPIs to measure the effectiveness of operational decisions
- Locate and define new process improvement opportunities
- Advise leaders on appropriate costing based on financial data
- Train team members and clients as needed
- Communicate thoroughly and proactively with all stakeholders to ensure project success. Use superior written and verbal communication skills to provide the Finance and Admin teams with the information needed to make decisions
- Use graphs, infographic and other methods to visualize data. Structures large data sets to find usable information
- Possess the ability to self-direct and work independently in order to be a prepared collaborator in projects and decision-making processes
- Treat all colleagues, vendors, patients, families, and others with care and respect in accordance with the SJH code of conduct
- Assist other Accounting department staff with special projects
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or equivalent
- 2+ years working as a financial analyst in a hospital system
- At least 2 years cost accounting or financial analysis experience
- Strong familiarity with both financial analysis and cost accounting
- Experience handing data requests, running reports, validating data, and manipulating data in Excel
- MBA or other Finance-related Master's degree preferred
- Experience with SQL and/or Cerner report experience
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