Senior Financial Analyst

Position Highlights:

• Position: Senior Financial Analyst
• Hourly Pay Range: $35.16 - $54.50. The hourly pay rate offered is determined by a candidate’s expertise and years of experience, among other factors.
• Location: Arlington Heights, IL or Warrenville, IL
• Full Time
• Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am - 4:30pm
• Hybrid Role: onsite expectations 3 days per week (Tues-Thurs)

Job Summary:

Builds strong relationships throughout Endeavor Health and provides moderately to highly complex support for operational teams. Serves as a subject matter expert to Leadership while providing expert advice on financial matters.  Learns and utilizes all key financial systems. Provides guidance and training to analysts and others within the organization on financial analysis, data extraction techniques, budgetary considerations, and recommends best practices on pulling, refining, and analyzing data. This position will increase the flow of information across the organization by identifying opportunities to build standardized reports and dashboards.  Supports and interacts with leaders and senior management using key analysis and recommendations, as well as ad hoc reporting. Conducts and leads special projects and ad hoc requests for Finance leadership.

This position will support developing financial plans/proformas for new programs and expansions, specifically in healthcare, alongside team management.

What you will do:

Analytical & Budget Responsibilities:

• Leads the distribution of data and reports across the System. Meets with various departments to educate, explain, and discuss opportunities for improvement, and ensures integrity of the data.
• Develops and maintains proformas and complex financial models to support decision-making for business issues and healthcare services. Responsibilities include gathering data, creating assumptions, performing scenario analysis, and validating against actuals to estimate costs, revenues, and other financial metrics for forecasting future performance. 
• Builds strong relationships across the System, including senior management.  Effectively uses information to provide analysis and recommendations that strengthen these relationships and ultimately improve operational performance.
• Partners with department leaders to develop and support initiatives using financial information and key analysis.
• Helps clinical and administrative teams to evaluate and improve budget-to-actual differences by evaluating activity, develop and recommend strategies to improve budget performance, monitor team’s progress and create a feedback loop where teams can provide updates on their process and challenges they encounter.  
• Serves as a liaison and subject matter expert with operational managers to advise on projects, cash flows and related financial matters.
• Prepares and delivers various written and/or financial reports/presentations for analysis and projects to management.

Financial Systems and Reporting Responsibilities:

• Analyze financial data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement. Collaborate with clinical and administrative teams to gather necessary data and insights. Assist management in interpreting financial information and finding data solutions to support decision-making.
• Prepare regular reports and presentations to communicate financial performance and projections to senior management and other stakeholders.
• Learns, utilizes, and coaches others on key financial systems.  Actively involved in the implementation of new systems and ensures all reporting needs and functionality are incorporated.  Ensures the integrity of these financial systems is accurate and updated on a timely basis.
• Provides guidance and training to analysts on financial modeling, data extraction techniques, budgetary considerations, and recommends best practices on pulling and refining data. 
• Effectively uses databases to gather, sort and extract data necessary for the proper tracking of key initiatives.
• Leads the distribution of standardized reports to aid in the overall understanding and assessment of business performance.  Seeks out opportunities to build dashboards for senior management that give daily, weekly, quarterly and annual views of key operational statistics.
• Prepares ad hoc reporting, using financial, statistical, or patient visit data sources.  Provides technical and informational assistance, as well as guidance, to others on the use of these sources.

Other Responsibilities:

• Exhibits a positive, open-minded, and proactive attitude, setting an example for staff. Demonstrates enthusiasm for embracing and facilitating change. Takes ini