Financial Analyst II-Accounting

Summary:

We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytically driven Financial Analyst II to join our team. The position will provide decision support, costing, and financial analysis to key decision makers throughout CHRISTUS Health. You will be instrumental in maintaining and enhancing our costing and decision support systems while collaborating with stakeholders across departments.

In this position, you will work with large, complex datasets - often over multiple millions of records - to develop insights into the data and solve complex problems. The ideal candidate is a strong team player who collaborates effectively across functions yet is also self-motivated and comfortable working independently. You should have a sharp analytical mindset, enjoy solving complex problems, and be skilled at navigating granular data to uncover trends, patterns, and improvement opportunities.

The position will report to the Manager of Analytics and will work with stakeholders on a regular basis to complete necessary analysis, reports, and dashboards.

This position is responsible for supporting and ensuring the integrity of the costing and decision support tool, maintaining and reconciling data loads and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Performs statistical, cost, and financial analysis of data
• Prepares and presents findings
• Ensure data interfaces and data loads run successfully and are validated for monthly and daily reporting.
• Perform cost-benefit analyses and recommend process improvements
• Analyze actual compared to standard costs for ongoing expenses and identify opportunities and risks
• Develop knowledge and skill with other business systems to ensure coordination and assist with backup responsibilities as needed.
• Work with finance users to understand the scope of work, priorities, and requirements for development
• Complete special projects as requested by manager.
• Contribute to system design and integration recommendations for improvement.
• Perform all tasks related to solution testing and document the outcomes.

Requirements:

Education:

• • Bachelor degree in Accounting, Finance, MIS, CIS or Computer Science preferred.

Experience:

• • 2+ years financial analysis or related experience
  • Healthcare or hospital industry experience strongly preferred

Skills:

• • Ability to work as a team player in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while comfortable working independently
  • Knowledge of accounting and finance principles
  • Strong attention to detail with proven ability to perform with a high degree of accuracy
  • Excel skills - Sumifs, Pivot Tables, Lookups
  • Preferred experience in costing/decision support systems, Strata Jazz or equivalent
  • Preferred experience in PowerBI - integrating multiple data sources, DAX Formulas, large data sets
  • Preferred experience in SQL - writing complex queries, joins, subqueries

Work Type:

Full Time