Financial Analyst Senior

Job Summary

As a Senior Financial Analyst, this role serves as the finance partner to clinical and operational leaders, providing financial, utilization, and performance analysis to support informed decision‑making across clinical operations. The position is responsible for transforming complex financial and operational data into meaningful insights that support strategic, operational, and financial objectives.

The Senior Financial Analyst conducts advanced analysis of trends, variances, and drivers impacting clinical performance, with a strong focus on cost management, resource utilization, and operational efficiency. This role requires a deep understanding of healthcare finance and clinical workflows, enabling the analyst to proactively identify risks, opportunities, and improvement initiatives.

Acting as a trusted advisor, the Senior Financial Analyst collaborates closely with clinical leaders, operational teams, and finance partners to evaluate performance, support business planning, and develop financially sound recommendations aligned with organizational goals. The role also plays a key part in communicating complex financial concepts in a clear, actionable manner to leaders at all levels of the organization.

Essential Functions

• Performs advanced statistical, cost, utilization, and financial variance analyses to assess clinical and operational performance and identify improvement opportunities.
• Provides financial decision support to clinical and operational leaders, including analysis related to productivity, staffing, cost management, and operational initiatives.
• Partners with assigned clinical areas as a trusted finance advisor, evaluating financial implications of operational decisions and offering data‑driven recommendations.
• Supports budgeting, forecasting, and initiative planning by analyzing trends, risks, and key performance drivers impacting clinical operations.
• Develops clear, accurate financial analyses, reports, and presentations that translate complex data into actionable insights for leaders at all levels.
• Applies sound judgment and advanced analytical skills to resolve complex or non‑standard financial and operational issues.
• Ensures financial and utilization data accuracy and consistency through validation, reconciliation, and variance explanation.
• Contributes to cross‑functional initiatives and, as appropriate, supports knowledge sharing or mentoring within the analyst team.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's Degree Accounting, finance, business administration, economics, statistics or related field

Preferred

• Master's Degree in Business or finance
• 3 years of relevant experience Finance, accounting or related work Required
• Formal or informal leadership experience
• LIC-Certified Public Accountant (CPA) - STATE_MI State of Michigan

About Corewell Health

As a team member at Corewell Health, you will play an essential role in delivering personalized health care to our patients, members and our communities. We are committed to cultivating and investing in YOU. Our top-notch teams are comprised of collaborators, leaders and innovators that continue to build on one shared mission statement - to improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope. Join a nationally recognized health system with an ambitious vision of continued advancement and excellence.

How Corewell Health cares for you

• Comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health, and work/life balance goals. Learn more here.

• On-demand pay program powered by Payactiv

• Discounts directory with deals on the things that matter to you, like restaurants, phone plans, spas, and more!

• Optional identity theft protection, home and auto insurance, pet insurance

• Traditional and Roth retirement options with service contribution and match savings

• Eligibility for benefits is determined by employment type and status

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Corewell Health grants equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, genetic information, marital status, height, weight, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected category.

An interconnected, collaborative culture where all are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work, is vital to the health of our organization. As a health system, we advocate for equity as we care for our patients, our communities, and each other. From workshops that develop cultural intelligence, to our inclusion resource groups for people to find community and empowerment at work, we are dedicated to ongoing resources that advance our values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. We invite those that share in our commitment to join our team.

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