Strategic Enterprise Decision-Support Leader

Washington University in St. Louis; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation & holidays

Health insurance

Metro U-Pass transit

403(b) Retirement plan

Wellness programs

Caregiver leave

Tuition benefits

Job summary

Washington University in St. Louis is seeking a senior analyst for decision support and FP&A to develop and assess business cases across health-system and university operations.

You will size opportunities, forecast demand, construct pro forma financials, and quantify ROI in a complex matrix environment. Your role includes data validation across Workday and EHR data environments, building driver-based models, and presenting actionable insights to leadership to inform Cabinet and Board

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a quantitative field.
• Seven years of experience in decision support, FP&A, strategy or management consulting, healthcare finance, business analytics, or higher education administration.
• Experience with market and service-line sizing, capital project business cases, or program economics in a complex matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Support development of decision-ready business cases, including sizing, forecasting, ROI/NPV, and break-even analysis.
• Own the analytical mechanics of business cases: baseline construction, drivers, scenarios, sensitivities, and source of key assumptions.
• Source, validate, and integrate data across enterprise systems and reconcile discrepancies before leadership review.
• Establish consistent assumptions, modeling conventions, templates, and documentation standards across the portfolio.
• Review and quality-check deliverables for accuracy, methodology, and defensibility.
• Partner with academic, clinical, medical school, and admin leaders to frame questions and identify metrics.
• Translate technical analysis into concise materials and recommendations for enterprise councils and Board discussions.

Skills

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

Financial Modeling

Data Analytics

Oral Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, statistics, data analytics, engineering, or a related quantitative field

Advanced degree (MBA, MHA, MPP, MPH, MS in a quantitative field, or similar)

Tools

Workday

Epic/Clarity

ERP systems

Job description

Washington University in St. Louis is seeking a senior analyst for decision support and FP&A to develop and assess business cases across health-system and university operations.

You will size opportunities, forecast demand, construct pro forma financials, and quantify ROI in a complex matrix environment. Your role includes data validation across Workday and EHR data environments, building driver-based models, and presenting actionable insights to leadership to inform Cabinet and Board