Senior Financial Analyst (Hybrid/Remote)

JOB SUMMARY
The Senior Financial Analyst will design and support data collection, analysis, and reporting to provide St. John’s
Health (SJH) leadership with accurate information upon which to base decisions. Functioning as an internal
consultant, will provide profitability, reimbursement, cost accounting, and productivity support as well as assisting in
preparing benchmarking and budget data and reports and long-term financial forecasts to drive quality and operational excellence,

strengthen and support our workforce, and enhance the breadth and depth of care for the community.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Financial data analysis and reporting

• Help to establish costing methodologies, flexible budgeting and decision support. Act as a lead on analyzing

financial information to support strategic decisions and operation improvement projects, provide information to assist
senior management in making financial, operational, or policy decisions, and function as a primary finance interface
with all departments as it relates to deriving costing methods.

• Serve as a resource for internal departments requiring assistance with financial and accounting matters.

Suggest ways to improve efficiencies and work to enhance the usefulness of the data. Educate and assist with the
identification of financial issues.

• Design, prepare and maintain detail/worksheets necessary to support financial presentations and

development of other communications as necessary.

• Interpret data, analyze results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports. Develop and/or

implement databases, data collection systems, data analytics, and other strategies to optimize statistical efficiency
and quality.

• Develop and maintain institutional and industry knowledge to identify key business costs, target analyses,

and interpret and communicate data in a usable way.

• Ensure accuracy of units of service for each service line.
• Produce labor/ staffing metrics for each service line.

Collaboration, communication, and teamwork

• Communicate thoroughly and proactively with all stakeholders to ensure project success. Use superior

written and verbal communication skills to provide the Finance and Admin teams with the information needed to
make decisions.

• Use graphs, infographic and other methods to visualize data. Structures large data sets to find usable

information.

• Possess the ability to self-direct and work independently in order to be a prepared collaborator in projects

and decision-making processes.

• Treat all colleagues, vendors, patients, families, and others with care and respect in accordance with the

SJH code of conduct.

• Assist other Accounting department staff with special projects.

JOB REQUIREMENTS
Minimum Education
Required: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or equivalent.
Preferred: MBA or other Finance-related Master’s degree preferred.

Minimum Work Experience
Required: At least 2 years cost accounting or financial analysis experience, strong familiarity with both financial analysis and
cost accounting. Experience handing data requests, running reports, validating data, and manipulating data in Excel.
Preferred: 2+ years working as a financial analyst in a hospital system. Experience with SQL and/or Cerner report experience.

FUNCTIONAL DEMANDS
Working Conditions
Healthcare office setting. Partial or mostly remote work possible. Must be able to travel on-site for orientation,
training, and at regularly scheduled times as determined by Director of Finance. Be able to work under pressure
for prolonged periods, meet deadlines, and maintain accuracy of all work products.

Physical Requirements
Six to eight hours of sitting per day. Six or more hours per day of computer use.

Direct Reports: None

Reports to: Director of Finance

Internal & External Contacts
All employees, providers, department managers, governmental agencies, vendors and the public.

Presentation Skills

• Gives effective presentations in a variety of formal and informal settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, inside

and outside the organization, with peers, direct reports, and leaders

• Able to present complex data in an engaging and understandable manner.

Systems Thinking

• Take a broad perspective to understanding how things work
• Able to see the connections, interdependencies, and relationships between departments, strategy, people, and

processes