Job Description

Our client is a leading national food and nutrition services company exclusively dedicated to serving more than 600 hospitals and healthcare systems. Our client has been named one of Modern Healthcare's "Top 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare" for the past five years, and Training Magazine's Top 125 organizations for the past six consecutive years.

Job Summary

Primary responsibilities of the Lead Financial Analyst will include oversight of the preparation of the Monthly Operations Review data, annual budget process, and monthly forecasting for the assigned system. Additionally, the manager will be responsible for monitoring internal control, and performance metric reporting for the system.

Job Responsibilities

• Manages the preparation of monthly analysis of revenue, cost of goods sold, labor and operational expenses against forecast, budget and prior year, providing explanations and business solutions to help mitigate any costs or risks at the units.
• Analyze financial performance against key business metrics and document pertinent financial highlights that will enable management to determine progress against budgets.
• Serve as a point of contact for client inquiries and reporting, providing clear and concise financial updates as needed.
• Identify issues with billing, collections and financial processing within the unit and propose mediation.
• Validate dashboard data and ensure accuracy of data in comparison to general ledger.
• Support month end closing process and perform variance analysis of key drivers of results.
• Perform analytics and establish benchmarks for key drivers of existing business.
• Support budgeting and forecasting processes as needed.
• Perform ad hoc analysis as needed. Understand and follow company rules and regulations.
• Perform all other duties as assigned and required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting required.
• MBA or CPA preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of progressive FP&A experience.
• Work well with people, aggressively anticipate impacts of workload/issues to team deadlines and have a very positive work attitude including willing to work some longer hours during peak periods.
• Advanced Excel skills, ability to work with lookups and pivot tables.
• Experience with SAP, Essbase and dashboard development preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Access, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Strong organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated to learn new concepts and participate in new projects.
• 10-20% travel, as needed

Compensation: $100,000 - $105,000 plus $10,000 bonus

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