Senior Provider Compensation Analyst & Financial Insights

LCMC Health; United States; On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job description

Your job is more than a job Senior Financial Analyst, Provider Compensation LCMC Health Physician Group (LHPG) New Orleans, LA

Are you an experienced healthcare finance professional who enjoys solving complex compensation and operational challenges? LCMC Health is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, Provider Compensation to play a key role in the design, administration, analysis, and reporting of provider compensation programs across our growing physician enterprise. This is a highly visible role that partners with Finance, Clinic Operations, Human Resources, Payroll, and physician leadership to ensure provider compensation is accurate, data-driven, and aligned with organizational goals. The ideal candidate brings a strong background in physician practice or clinic finance, advanced analytical skills, and the ability to translate complex compensation plans into meaningful financial insights. If you enjoy working at the intersection of healthcare operations, provider productivity, financial performance, and compensation strategy, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact across one of the region's leading health systems.

What You'll Do

• Provider Compensation Analysis
  Develop, maintain, and validate provider compensation calculations in accordance with approved compensation plans and contractual terms.
  Build sophisticated compensation models that incorporate base salary, productivity incentives, quality incentives, guarantees, administrative stipends, and other compensation components.
  Analyze provider productivity, compensation, and financial performance using metrics such as wRVUs, professional revenue, collections, compensation per wRVU, and related benchmarks.
  Perform scenario modeling and financial analysis to evaluate proposed compensation changes.
  Support annual compensation planning, budgeting, forecasting, and provider true-up processes.
• Financial Analysis & Reporting
  Prepare recurring provider compensation, productivity, and financial performance reports for leadership.
  Analyze actual compensation results against budgets, forecasts, contractual expectations, and historical trends.
  Identify variances, unusual trends, calculation discrepancies, and opportunities for improvement.
  Provide actionable financial insights that help leaders understand key drivers of provider compensation expense and clinic performance.
  Support provider-level, service-line, and clinic-level financial analysis.
• Data Validation & Reconciliation
  Reconcile compensation calculations to payroll records, productivity reporting, source systems, and financial statements.
  Validate provider roster information, compensation terms, productivity measures, and other critical inputs.
  Investigate discrepancies across payroll, finance, operational, and provider productivity data.
  Maintain comprehensive documentation and audit-ready support for all compensation calculations.
• Provider Compensation Administration
  Review employment agreements, compensation plans, exhibits, and amendments to identify key financial terms.
  Maintain compensation schedules, assumptions, and supporting documentation.
  Support provider onboarding, compensation changes, contract renewals, and terminations.
  Respond to compensation-related inquiries and provide clear explanations of compensation calculations and methodologies.
  Assist with internal and external audit requests.
• Process Improvement
  Identify and implement opportunities to streamline provider compensation calculations and reporting processes.
  Develop standardized reporting tools, controls, templates, and documentation.
  Partner with operational and finance teams to continuously improve data quality, reporting accuracy, and process efficiency.

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of healthcare finance experience, preferably in physician practice, ambulatory, or medical group finance.
• Strong financial analysis, modeling, and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including pivot tables, lookup functions, complex formulas, and financial modeling.
• Experience reconciling large, complex datasets and identifying data discrepancies.
• Ability to interpret contractual terms and translate them into accurate financial calculations.
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to manage confidential financial information.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex financial concepts to both finance and operational leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in physician/provider compensation, medical group finance, clinic operations, or healthcare consulting.
• Working knowledge of physician productivity and compensation metrics, including wRVUs.
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, payroll reconciliation, or compensation planning.
• Experience using Power BI, Power Query, SQL, or other business intelligence and analytics tools.
• Familiarity with healthcare financial, HR, payroll, or provider productivity systems.
• Experience supporting a multi-site physician practice or ambulatory care network.

Why Join LCMC Health?

This position offers the opportunity to help shape and standardize provider compensation across LHPG while supporting innovative physician and academic compensation models. You'll work closely with executive leadership and operational partners to drive financial transparency, provider engagement, and organizational growth. If you're an experienced healthcare finance professional with a strong clinic finance background and a passion for data-driven decision-making, we'd love to hear from you.

WORK SHIFT: Days (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community. Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary

Your extras Deliver healthcare with heart. Give people a reason to smile. Put a little love in your work. Be honest and real, but with compassion. Bring some lagniappe into everything you do. Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care. See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective. Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other. Love what makes you, you - because we do You are welcome here. LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

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About LCMC Health One-of-a-kind care comes from one-of-a-kind people. At LCMC Health, our people are the magic ingredient that makes our care so extra-extraordinary. We are compassionate, driven, and dedicated to bringing a little something extra to healthcare and to the people of New Orleans and beyond. If you’re the kind of person who believes that our community deserves the best and that healthcare needs a little more heart, we want you to be a part of our family. From medical roles to administrative positions, every person on our team plays a part in our mission: to provide health, care, and education beyond extraordinary. Let’s make every day extraordinary, together.