Senior Financial Analyst - Hospice

BrightSpring Health Services

Are you a numbers aficionado, critical thinker and want to drive business success while helping patients get compassionate care they need and deserve? Hospice Finance focuses on the organization's financial management strategies and execution to effectively and efficiently serve the most patients possible. If this piques your interest, read more below and apply today!

The Senior Financial Analyst will serve as a major finance contributor over an assigned region and/or business line, will be a key partner to operational leaders by helping to define, and drive all financial analysis and reporting for their assigned business. The successful candidate will be seen as a driver of results within the business, across disciplines (census growth, revenue rate, labor management, cost model optimization, billing collections and capital expenditures)
• Drive Business Performance: More than reporting the numbers, the Sr. Financial Analyst is responsible for monitoring key performance metrics and recommending action to improve operational performance across many areas. Specifically:
  o Modeling of each agency's financials - Model the optimal financial performance for each agency, monitor performance against the model/benchmarks, so that leaders can drive change at the field level where gaps exist
  o Monthly Core Cost tracking and control - On a weekly and monthly basis, monitor material operating model expenses and deliver insights on where and how to improve. Supports company efforts to drive an environment of fiscal management across every level of the organization and ensure all agencies have the information needed to remain in line with approved operating plans and budgets
  o Labor Management - On a weekly and monthly basis, review staff model, contract labor, productivity, and worked hours compared to planned hours to identify areas where staffing needs to be addressed
• Accounting Close Support - Review key revenue and expense activity and accruals during month end close in order to identify issues and work with accounting team to correct before numbers are finalized
• Standardized Reporting - To support their businesses, ensure all reporting is produced timely and provides valuable information to understand current business trends, and utilizes reporting to identify focus areas - addressing with operations and other functions as needed.
• Forecast - Develop projections, driven by key operational metrics analyzed in partnership with operations partners, and present forecast to senior leadership regularly. Provide flash updates on metrics and corresponding revenue and EBITDA each monthly review cycle
• Budget - Create annual operational budgets for each site/location within the assigned business, assessing run rates, growth plans, staffing needs/requests, and regulatory impacts. Present budgets to leadership within operating segment and to Sr. Leadership
• Ad hoc analysis / projects - As a valuable resource to a business unit, various analytical initiatives will be assigned. These include rate/volume variance analyses, wage increase valuation, proforma development for new business, union negotiation analysis and other operational reporting projects that may arise

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Data Science
• CPA/CFA or MBA preferred
• Three to five years of relevant experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to use complex reporting processes, systems, and report writing tools
• High attention to detail, timeliness, and accuracy
• Experience in budgeting, and forecasting
• Experience with development of variance and trend financial analysis
• Highly proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite applications (Excel and Powerpoint); experience with Oracle ERP, Power BI and Workday/Adaptive FP&A software a plus
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Ability to effectively and professionally communicate (verbal and written) with all levels of personnel both internal and external to the company
• Knowledge of current industry trends, standards, and practices

Personal Attributes

• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a dynamic environment
• High degree of sensitivity and discretion in working with confidential information
• Must be team oriented