Financial Analyst at Rural Staffing Services in Port Townsend, Washington, United States

Job description

• Financial Analyst
• Jefferson Healthcare | Port Townsend, Washington
• Primarily Remote | Full-Time | Financial Planning & Analysis
• Salary: $67,470.14 – $101,205.23 annually, depending on experience
• This search is being supported by Rural Staffing Services® (RSS).
• If your background aligns with this opportunity, please apply directly through this Rural Staffing Services® posting.
• RSS will review qualified candidates, connect with those whose experience aligns with the position, and coordinate next steps with Jefferson Healthcare.
• Please do not contact Jefferson Healthcare directly regarding this opening. Applying through RSS ensures that you are considered as part of the search we are supporting and gives our team the opportunity to guide you throughout the process.
• Jefferson Healthcare is looking for an experienced Financial Analyst who understands that healthcare finance is about much more than producing reports or explaining what happened last month.
• This person will help leaders understand why something happened.
• Is what we are seeing a meaningful operational change—or simply normal fluctuation?
• And when something does not add up, this analyst will be expected to follow the question all the way back to its source.
• The Financial Planning & Analysis team at Jefferson Healthcare is continuing to grow and evolve, creating an opportunity for someone who enjoys not only analyzing financial performance, but also building better processes, improving reporting, asking good questions, and helping leaders make better decisions.
• The strongest candidates will bring at least three years of healthcare financial analysis experience and already understand the fundamentals of hospital revenue, reimbursement, budgeting, forecasting, and operations.
• Technical ability matters.
• But so does how you think.
• The strongest fit for this team will be someone who is:
• Curious
• Dependable
• Collaborative
• Self-directed
• Analytical
• Comfortable taking ownership
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Willing to ask thoughtful questions
• Able to work without a high degree of structure
• Interested in understanding the story behind the numbers
• Comfortable partnering directly with leaders throughout an organization
• Motivated to improve systems and processes rather than simply work within them
• Jefferson Healthcare's FP&A team is still relatively new, and its processes continue to evolve.
• For the right person, that is part of what makes this opportunity exciting.
• There is room to think.
• Room to build.
• Room to improve.
• And room to help shape how financial planning and analysis continues to support the organization.
• This may be one of the most important qualities Jefferson Healthcare is looking for.
• They want someone who notices.
• That doesn't make sense.
• And then investigate.
• Ask questions.
• Validate the information.
• Find where the discrepancy originated.
• Understand whether it represents a real operational issue.
• And follow it all the way through to resolution.
• This is not simply a role for someone who completes the assigned analysis and moves on to the next spreadsheet.
• It is for someone who wants to understand why.
• This position is primarily remote, but remote does not mean disconnected.
• The Financial Analyst will need to be highly self-directed while remaining responsive, collaborative, and actively engaged with the FP&A team and leaders across Jefferson Healthcare.
• Managing your own workload
• Prioritizing competing requests
• Communicating proactively
• Asking for context when needed
• Following issues through without extensive supervision
• Building relationships with people you may primarily work with virtually
• The team also values spending intentional time together, which is why travel to Port Townsend is expected at least once annually for planned team building, with travel and lodging covered.
• Behind every healthcare budget, forecast, reimbursement assumption, staffing decision, service-line analysis, and operational variance are real healthcare services being delivered to real people.
• Strong financial analysis gives healthcare leaders the ability to see what is happening sooner.
• To understand why.
• To make adjustments.
• To invest wisely.
• To use resources responsibly.
• And ultimately, to preserve and strengthen healthcare services for the community they serve.
• The Financial Analyst will help Jefferson Healthcare make those connections.
• If you love healthcare finance, enjoy solving complicated problems, are naturally curious about data, and want your work to contribute to a community-focused healthcare organization, we would love to learn more about you.

Responsibilities

• As Financial Analyst, you will work across financial, operational, labor, and clinical information to help Jefferson Healthcare understand performance and make informed decisions.
• Developing, maintaining, and enhancing financial reports, dashboards, scorecards, and business intelligence tools
• Supporting annual operating and capital budgets
• Developing financial forecasts and supporting long-range financial planning
• Performing budget-to-actual variance analysis
• Identifying financial and operational trends, risks, and opportunities
• Analyzing gross and net patient revenue
• Understanding contractual adjustments, payors, reimbursement, and the operational drivers behind financial performance
• Preparing routine and ad hoc analyses for executive leadership, service-line leaders, and department managers
• Developing financial models supporting ROI, business planning, capital investments, and organizational growth
• Evaluating the financial performance of departments, service lines, strategic initiatives, and investments
• Supporting position control and labor productivity analysis
• Partnering directly with department leaders to explain financial results, expectations, key drivers, and opportunities
• Translating complex financial information into clear and actionable information for non-financial leaders
• Reconciling and validating financial and operational data
• Identifying inconsistencies or data-quality issues and tracing problems back to their source
• Working with data from multiple financial, operational, and business intelligence systems
• Maintaining consistent reporting definitions, assumptions, methodologies, and documentation
• Helping improve reporting accuracy and financial business processes
• Managing multiple priorities independently while recognizing what requires further investigation versus normal variance or noise
• Accounting
• Revenue Cycle
• Data Analytics
• Clinical Informatics
• Human Resources
• Supply Chain
• Operational leadership
• Executive leadership

Requirements

• For this particular search, healthcare financial analysis experience is important.
• There is a significant learning curve associated with hospital revenue, reimbursement, payors, contractual adjustments, and healthcare operations.
• A minimum of three years of progressively responsible financial analysis experience in a healthcare environment.
• Candidates should already understand the fundamentals of healthcare finance and be capable of getting up to speed quickly within the organization.
• Required
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Economics, Statistics, or a related field
• Minimum three years of progressively responsible financial analysis experience in a healthcare environment
• Healthcare budgeting experience
• Financial forecasting experience
• Financial modeling experience
• Variance analysis experience
• Knowledge of healthcare financial operations and reimbursement methodologies
• Understanding of gross and net patient revenue
• Understanding of contractual adjustments and payors
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Experience with financial reporting and business intelligence applications
• Strong reconciliation and data-validation abilities
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to interpret complex financial, operational, and statistical data
• Ability to communicate financial information clearly to both financial and non-financial audiences
• Ability to organize and manage multiple projects and priorities
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work with considerable independence
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Ability to work successfully in a primarily remote environment while remaining engaged with the team
• SQL proficiency is highly preferred.
• This role works directly with information coming from multiple systems.
• Query data
• Extract data
• Join information from multiple sources
• Validate results
• Reconcile inconsistencies
• Troubleshoot discrepancies
• Trace questionable information back to its source
• will bring tremendous value to the team.
• Jefferson Healthcare is especially interested in someone who is comfortable getting into the data rather than relying entirely on someone else to provide the answer.
• Not every item below is required.
• However, Jefferson Healthcare would be particularly interested in candidates with experience in one or more of the following:
• Critical Access Hospital experience
• Rural or community healthcare
• Medicare Cost Report
• Position control
• Labor productivity
• Financial components of workforce management
• Healthcare reimbursement methodologies
• Infor / Infor CloudSuite
• Strata / StrataJazz
• Symplr Workforce or Outcomes Analytics
• Tableau
• Power BI
• Epic
• Other healthcare financial or business intelligence platforms
• Certified Healthcare Financial Professional (CHFP / HFMA)
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
• Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
• Comparable healthcare finance or accounting certification
• A master's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or a related field is also preferred, but not required.

Skills

Required

• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Reconciliation and data-validation
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Work with considerable independence
• Written, verbal, and presentation skills

Preferred

• SQL
• Infor / Infor CloudSuite
• Strata / StrataJazz
• Symplr Workforce or Outcomes Analytics
• Tableau
• Power BI
• Epic

Benefits

• Salary: $67,470.14 – $101,205.23 annually, depending on experience
• Employment: Full-Time | 1.0 FTE | 40 hours per week
• Schedule: Day shift | No weekends
• Work Arrangement: Primarily Remote
• The Financial Analyst will work remotely while remaining actively engaged and collaborative with the Jefferson Healthcare team.
• Jefferson Healthcare expects travel to Port Townsend, Washington, at least once annually for planned team building.
• Travel and lodging for the planned annual visit are covered.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and additional employee benefits offered by Jefferson Healthcare.