Senior Financial Analyst

MedStar Health; Somerville (MA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to provide financial analysis, reporting, and support for strategic projects. This role involves preparing financial statements, maintaining analytic models, and collaborating with management to drive key decisions. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and relevant experience in financial analysis.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in a financial analysis role.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong financial and revenue analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist with financial statement preparation and analysis for strategic projects.
• Maintain financial analytic models and provide reports to senior leaders.
• Support operational variance analysis for Clinical and Non-Clinical areas.

Skills

Analytical skills

Customer problem resolution

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Organization skills

Judgment

Financial analysis

Excel skills

PowerPoint skills

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field

Tools

StrataJazz Financial Planning

Workday

Excel macros

Job description

The Opportunity
The Senior Financial Analyst assists in preparing statistical reports and assists with financial statement preparation while supporting financial analysis of strategic projects and ad hoc analysis as required. In addition, the Senior Financial Analyst supports operational and administrative decisions affecting finance, budget preparation and monitoring, budget analysis and projection.
Essential Functions:
-Maintain or modify all financial analytic models in use.
-Interprets financial information by consolidating, studying, and analyzing data.
-Train junior analysts and sometimes review their work
-Prepares and presents analyses, forecasts, and recommendations to senior business and finance leaders that support and drive key business, strategic, and investment decisions.
-Interpret results of financial analysis procedures.
-Supervise project budget and all financial issues for all projects.
-Support the Finance Leader on projects as needed
This position supports the VP of Finance of Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (BWFH), as well as integrated Finance of the MGB Academic Medical Center (AMC) Division. The Senior Financial Analyst will:
- Provide operational variance analysis for Clinical and Non-Clinical areas. The Senior Financial Analyst will build an understanding the operating results for assigned AMC areas of responsibility.
- Present monthly performance updates to assigned Hospital Senior Vice Presidents.
- Work with VP of Finance in the development, maintenance, and enhancement of the departmental reporting packages for various levels of Hospital leadership, including the AMC CFO.
- Work closely with hospital management and local finance staff on issues surrounding operating/capital budget development, reporting, and special projects.
- Assist in the coordination and development of the annual operating budget process.
- Analyze proposed operating budget requests; coordinate questions for discussion and participate in negotiation of budget issues with management; make recommendations to management regarding proposed spending.
- Collaborate with colleagues across the AMC division to ensure aligned and consistent reporting practices and support to division leadership.
- Work with accounting, patient care management, human resources, and the finance team to understand and evaluate financial performance and major financial issues facing the organization.
- Develop, analyze and prepare a variety of regular and ad hoc reporting analyses and projects for issues related to management inquiries and initiatives. Compile financial schedules and participate in special projects as requested.
- Evaluate the relationships between hospital volume and the impact on department operations and monthly operating expenses.
- For areas of responsibility, prepare monthly variance analysis, cost per unit analysis, and periodically assist in the review of reports on budget related issues and special projects.
- Leverage multiple systems such as StrataJazz Financial Planning, StrataJazz Decision Support, EPIC, Tableau, Position Control, and Workday to perform Hospital financial analytics.
- Design and maintain accurate records and databases.

Education and Experience

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics or related field.

• 3-5 years of experience in a financial analysis role.

• Use of StrataJazz Financial Planning or Decision Support, Workday, and ability to create Excel macros are a plus but not required.

Other Skills

• Excellent analytical and customer problem resolution skills.

• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.

• Must be extremely well organized to handle multiple tasks simultaneously under sometimes tight deadlines

• Take-charge ability and excellent judgment in determining and leveraging resources.

• Exceptional judgment and discretion in interacting with management on sensitive fiscal and confidential issues.

• Strong financial and revenue analysis skills.

• Strong Excel, PowerPoint and Access skills.

• Ability to work effectively in teams.

• Ability to work independently with operating managers on issues such as cost per unit analysis, forecasting and variance analysis.

Working Model Required

• Remote requires stable secure, quiet, compliant work station
• M-F Eastern Business Hours required.

Mass General Brigham Incorporated is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.