Manager Financial Planning & Analysis

At Children’s Nebraska, our mission is to improve the life of every child through exceptional care, advocacy, research and education. As the state’s only full-service pediatric healthcare center, we provide comprehensive, holistic care to our patients and families—from primary and specialty care to behavioral health services and everything in between. Dedicated to a People First culture, we foster an environment with joy, belonging, wellbeing, learning and growth. Turn your passion into purpose and make a difference where it matters most. Children's is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer including veterans and people with disabilities.

A Brief Overview
Serves as the leader of the Financial Planning team to support leadership in strategic and tactical decision making and guide future business performance through financial reporting, analysis, insights, recommendations and guidance. May serve as the lead financial liaison for multiple business units. Builds strong working relationships and collaborates with a wide range of stakeholders. Oversees all the daily operations and functions of the Financial Planning team.

Essential Functions

Defines operational standards for providing financial support to operational leaders, organizes these activities to achieve optimum service delivery, setting high performance objectives for the team. Holds self and others accountable to meet stated objectives, outcomes, goals, timetables, and commitments, adhering to standards even in the face of unforeseen circumstances. Leads a team of finance business partners to deliver high quality solutions, identify opportunities to facilitate organizational improvement and success, and develops, recommends, and executes related strategies.

Financial Support, Reporting & Analytics  

• Responsible for accurate and timely internal financial reporting. 
• Analyzes actual results against budgets and forecasts, performs variance analysis to explain changes in performance, and makes recommendations for improvements. 
• Analyzes financial data to identify trends, anomalies, and deviations, and recommends strategies for improvement to increase efficiency, accuracy, and profitability. 
• Identify and communicate to senior leadership financial risks and strategies to mitigate such risks. 
• Researches, analyzes and synthesizes data from multiple sources into business information to support enterprise initiatives and objectives. 
• Supports executive leadership on ad hoc analyses, special projects and board meeting preparation. 
• Responsible for development and distribution of reports and dashboards for leadership to support decision-making and communicating financial insights. 
• Develops and delivers presentations to leadership.

Financial Stewardship • Leads business-partnering role with leaders to deliver positive results 

• Responsible for the development and operationalizing the enterprise financial stewardship program, including flex targets, variance commentary, and reporting to drive optimal financial performance. 
• Responsible for financial management and productivity reporting programs, including communicating financial results, metrics and actual to target variances. 
• Leads process of gathering variance commentary and supporting operational leaders in developing and implementing improvement opportunities. 
• Research and pursue best practices for metrics, tools, processes, etc. to increase overall engagement and enable stakeholders to better manage the financial performance of their business. 
• Develops and delivers financial education to organizational leaders

 Business and Strategic Planning 

• Supports leadership in evaluating strategic objectives. 
• Develops financial models and analysis to be used in the strategic planning process and development of business plans including but not limited to pro-formas, ROI, NPV, and IRR. 
• Performs and leads what-if analyses, as well as analyzes the financial impact of changes in business and new business opportunities/acquisitions.

Budget, Forecasting, and Projections 

• Leads annual and flex budget and planning cycles in partnership with the Budget Program Manager. 
• Develops, recommends, and provides input to budget and forecast assumptions, targets, and projections (volume, revenue, expense, UOS, and FTEs) 
• Develops and recommends budget assumptions, targets, and projections. 
• Leads discussions with operational leaders and stakeholders to develop budget targets for their business units. 
• Analyzes projections with respect to various operating strategies, targets and other metrics or objectives. 
• Analyzes actual results to understand variances, revising proje