Strategic Financial Analyst

Atlantic Health System; Morristown (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlantic Health System is seeking a Strategic Finance Analyst to partner with Service Line and Institute leadership, delivering rigorous financial analysis to guide program development, operations, and long-range planning.

This role develops business cases, performs financial assessments, and creates proforms outlining volumes, costs, reimbursements, staffing impacts, and overall financial performance, while translating data into actionable insights for decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial performance, identify trends, variances, risks, and opportunities, and provide actionable recommendations to evaluate service line performance and physician hospital contribution margin.
• Collaborate with service line partners to understand operational drivers and translate complex financial information into meaningful insights.
• Evaluates operational efficiency, identifies cost-saving opportunities, and supports business cases for new initiatives.
• Support development and execution of annual service line budgeting including gathering inputs and aligning budget targets.
• Increase the relevance and impact of service line marketing touchpoints by maintaining incremental service line specific volume ROI models.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of business processes, data sets, and clinical knowledge of operations to extract transform and analyze financial data.
• Communicate complex financial and operational information clearly, concisely, and accurately through written reports, presentations, and verbal discussions.
• Regularly exercises discretion and judgment in the performance of essential job functions.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job description

Strategic Finance Analyst – Service Lines

The Strategic Finance Analyst serves as a strategic financial partner to Service Line and Institute leadership, providing comprehensive analytical support that informs program development, operational decision-making, and long-term planning. This role plays a critical part in evaluating and advancing clinical, operational, and strategic initiatives by developing detailed business cases, performing financial assessments, and creating proforms that clearly outline expected volumes, costs, reimbursements, staffing impacts, and overall financial performance. The analyst discovers trends and provides actionable insights driving business strategies and operations across the service lines.

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial performance, identify trends, variances, risks, and opportunities, and provide actionable recommendations to evaluate service line performance andphysician hospital contribution margin.

• Collaborate with service line partners to understand operational drivers and translate complex financial information into meaningful insights.

• Evaluates operational efficiency, identifies cost-saving opportunities, and supports business cases for new initiatives.

• Support development and execution of annual service line budgeting including gathering inputs and aligning budget targets.

• Increase the relevance and impact of service line marketing touchpoints by maintaining incremental service line specific volume ROI models.

• Maintain a thorough understanding of business processes, data sets, and clinical knowledge of operations to extract transform and analyze financial data.

• Communicate complex financial and operational information clearly, concisely, and accurately through written reports, presentations, and verbal discussions.

• Regularly exercises discretion and judgment in the performance of essential job functions.

• Perform other duties as assigned.