Senior Financial Planning Analyst

Overview

CommonSpirit Health is a nonprofit Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. It was created in February 2019 by Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health. With its national office in Chicago and a team of over 150,000 employees and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians, CommonSpirit operates more than 2,000 care sites from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen -- both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

Responsibilities

Job Summary:

The Senior Financial Planning Analyst works collaboratively with all members of the Finance Division to assist in the achievement of system objectives. The Senior Financial Planning Analyst assists the finance management team, in all areas of dashboard reporting, financial analysis, productivity analysis and support, long-range financial planning, operating and capital budgeting, and related activities in support of all strategies, initiatives and operational elements. Provides general direction, technical assistance and support to CHI Health management in the implementation and execution of strategic and operational initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing consultative support in the areas of financial analysis and planning, with emphasis on assigned operational areas.

• Assists in forecasting financial needs, including pro forma financial statements, break-even analysis, cash flow projections, ratio analysis, cash planning, capital planning, resource utilization, and evaluation of financing alternatives.

• Responsible for the coordination and preparation of the routine Analytical Review of operational activity which is based on a sound financial analysis, including budget vs. actual comparisons as well as benchmarking, but also incorporates operational insight in close cooperation with the affected operational personnel.

• Participates in the creation of an instrument panel of key statistics, ratio and data for use by the Senior and Executive Leadership teams.

• Provides training and support to financial analyst I and financial analyst II members of the Finance Division.

• Provides advice, counsel, suggestions for operational improvement, support and accountability of financial operations to leadership.

• Facilitates communication and acts as a point of contact between managers at the assigned areas and members of the Accounting & Finance Department.

• Provides support in the process of gathering the common statistics in an accurate/timely fashion in support of other financial, planning and operational activities and initiatives.

Qualifications

Bachelors Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance or closely related field

Preferred

3-5 years experience in general accounting or finance

Masters degree and/or a CPA license