Growth Finance Analyst — De Novo & M&A (Unlimited PTO)

Cornerstone Caregiving; Waco (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornerstone Caregiving is seeking a Strategic Finance Analyst to support de novo, acquisition, pricing, and growth-investment analysis. Reporting to the Manager of Strategic Finance, this role will maintain financial models, support market and deal analysis, and help translate operational and market data into the growth decisions leadership acts on.

The Strategic Finance Analyst will play a key role in improving the accuracy, efficiency, and scalability of the company’s growth analytics while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related quantitative field.
• 0–3 years of experience in corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, FP&A, or corporate development.
• Strong financial modeling skills including IRR, payback, and DCF.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with high attention to detail.
• Ability to synthesize large, multi-location datasets into clear, decision-ready analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for executive and sponsor audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects under deadline pressure.
• Ability to handle confidential and highly sensitive financial information responsibly.

Responsibilities

• Support and help maintain the de novo economic model, updating ramp, breakeven, payback, and IRR assumptions.
• Assist with white-space analyses to quantify addressable demand and identify high-return markets.
• Maintain the market prioritization framework and update scoring inputs.
• Track actual de novo performance against underwriting and recalibrate ramp assumptions by cohort.
• Assist with financial diligence—revenue and payer-mix quality, caregiver wage and turnover economics, billable-hour trends, client concentration, add-backs, and working capital.
• Support valuation work, including DCF and comparable-transaction models.
• Maintain the acquisition pipeline model, tracking targets, multiples, capital requirements, and expected contribution to EBITDA plan.
• Support post-close synergy tracking and look-back analysis against original underwriting.
• Help monitor bill-rate-to-pay-rate spread and flag underperforming offices.
• Support margin expansion initiatives—scheduling efficiency, overtime reduction, caregiver utilization, and overhead leverage.

Skills

Financial modeling

Excel

Analytical thinking

Data synthesis

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related quantitative field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

DCF / valuation modeling

Job description

Cornerstone Caregiving is seeking a Strategic Finance Analyst to support de novo, acquisition, pricing, and growth-investment analysis. Reporting to the Manager of Strategic Finance, this role will maintain financial models, support market and deal analysis, and help translate operational and market data into the growth decisions leadership acts on.

The Strategic Finance Analyst will play a key role in improving the accuracy, efficiency, and scalability of the company’s growth analytics while