Financial Analyst

Premier Health Group; Clifton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Premier Health Group is seeking an FP&A Analyst with a strong foundation in healthcare finance to support a rapidly growing multi-entity platform. The role will drive FP&A, operational analytics, and strategic finance initiatives with exposure to executive leadership.

The ideal candidate has expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and pro forma modeling, and understands payer mix, collections, and procedure-level economics. Hybrid work in Clifton, NJ.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• 2–4 years of experience in healthcare finance.
• Strong understanding of payer mix, reimbursement models, and revenue cycle.
• Experience with procedure-level or service line financial analysis.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain budgets, forecasts, and cash flow models.
• Support monthly close and multi-entity P&L reporting.
• Analyze budget vs. actual performance and identify key drivers and variances.
• Assist in developing standardized reporting cadence and outputs.
• Build and maintain operational reports and dashboards to track KPIs across sites and service lines.
• Identify trends and elevate insights to finance and leadership.
• Support financial diligence and underwriting for acquisitions.
• Prepare ad hoc analyses and scenario planning for leadership.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Payer mix

Healthcare finance

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting

Job description

Location: 999 Clifton Avenue, Clifton, NJ (Hybrid)

Department: Finance

Reports To: Director of Finance

Position Summary

We are seeking a FP&A Analyst with a strong foundation in healthcare finance to support a rapidly growing multi-entity healthcare platform. This role will drive FP&A, operational analytics, and strategic finance initiatives, with direct exposure to executive leadership.

The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in FP&A, including budgeting, forecasting, and pro forma modeling, along with an understanding of healthcare financial drivers such as payer mix, collections, and procedure-level economics.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain budgets, forecasts, and cash flow models
• Support monthly close and multi-entity P&L reporting
• Analyze budget vs. actual performance and identify key drivers and variances
• Assist in developing standardized reporting cadence and outputs

Operational Analytics

• Build and maintain operational reports and dashboards to track key performance indicators across sites and service lines
• Ensure consistency and accuracy of operational data used in financial reporting and analysis
• Identify trends and variances in operational performance and elevate insights to finance and leadership

Strategic Finance & M&A

• Support financial diligence and underwriting for acquisitions
• Assist leadership in evaluating new service lines and growth initiatives
• Build pro forma models based on operational and revenue assumptions
• Analyze service line performance, strategic initiatives and growth opportunities
• Translate acquisition and integration performance into inputs for ongoing forecasting and deal diligence

Ad-Hoc

• Support ad hoc financial and operational analyses as needed to inform business decisions
• Build quick-turn models and scenario analyses to support time-sensitive leadership requests
• Prepare presentation-ready schedules and materials for executive, board, and lender requests
• Partner with operations, accounting, and clinical leadership to source data and validate assumptions

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• 2–4 years of experience, healthcare finance preferred
• Strong understanding of payer mix, reimbursement models, and revenue cycle
• Experience with procedure-level or service line financial analysis
• Advanced proficiency in Excel

What We're Looking For

• Can take an assignment from concept through completion without requiring constant direction
• Knows how to research and troubleshoot problems independently
• Can take an incomplete data set or loosely defined problem and determine how to move forward

Compensation

$80,000–$100,000 base salary, depending on experience and qualifications.

What Success Looks Like

Within the first several months, the Analyst should own recurring budgeting and forecasting, multi-entity P&L reporting, operational dashboards, and variance analysis with limited supervision — given the objective, the data, and initial direction, then figuring out how to get to the finished product.