Financial Analyst
Job Location:
Charlottesville, VA - USA
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Job Summary
- These positions can be remote
- Client required Health system/hospital experience
- Perform monthly quarterly and annual financial variance analysis evaluating actual results against budgeted forecasted and historical trends.
- Conduct hands-on general ledger review and cost-center tracking to ensure accuracy in transaction posting account coding and revenue/expense allocations.
- Support month-end close activities by analyzing operational metrics preparing accrual inputs and performing balance sheet/income statement reconciliations.
- Assist department managers and operational leaders with daily financial inquiries purchasing approvals and budget tracking.
- Contribute directly to the annual operating and capital budget preparation processes across assigned departments or health system units.
- Build maintain and refine rolling financial forecasts headcount models and multi-year projection spreadsheets.
- Evaluate operational business cases return-on-investment (ROI) proposals and capital expenditure requests.
- Develop dynamic scenario models to assess the financial impact of operational changes volume shifts or policy adjustments.
- Extract clean and model complex financial datasets from enterprise platforms using business intelligence and data visualization tools (e.g. Qlik Power BI Tableau).
- Generate routine and ad-hoc financial reporting packages executive dashboards and operational KPI scorecards.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual data collection streamline spreadsheet workflows and eliminate reporting defects.
Stakeholder Collaboration & Compliance
- Partner with non-financial operational managers department chairs and administrative leadership to explain financial performance and variance causes.
- Ensure all budgeting reporting and operational finance practices comply with university policies state regulations and U.S. GAAP/GASB standards.
- Support internal and external audit requests by gathering financial schedules supporting documentation and analytical commentary.
- Enterprise Systems: Hands-on proficiency using enterprise ERP systems specificall Oracle PeopleSoft Financials (alongside familiarity with Workday Financials Oracle Cloud or SAP)for transaction inquiries ledger analysis and journal processing
- FP&A & Budgeting Software: Direct experience working with financial planning toolsspecifically Workday Adaptive Planning or Anaplanfor budget entry forecast updates and scenario modeling.
- Business Intelligence & Data Visualization: Experience utilizing reporting software such as Power BI or Tableau to build analytical reports and visual dashboards.
- Advanced Spreadsheet Modeling: Mastery of Microsoft Excel (e.g. Advanced Formulas XLOOKUP/INDEX-MATCH Pivot Tables Power Query scenario managers and financial modeling standards).
- Education: Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics Business Administration or a quantitative discipline.
- Experience: Minimum of 24 years of progressive experience in financial analysis operational accounting budgeting or corporate/higher education FP&A.
- Minimum 2 years of financial analysis experience specifically within a health system hospital or academic medical center environment.
- ERP today is Peoplesoft
- Client required Health system/hospital experience
- Analytical Capability: Advanced analytical and data-modeling skills with a proven track record of synthesizing large complex financial datasets into clear narrative reports.
- Technical Mastery: High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and hands-on experience using enterprise ERP and reporting systems.
- Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex financial concepts to non-financial operational partners.
- Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate or Excel Expert certification
- Prior experience working within a higher education institution academic medical center healthcare system or public sector agency.
- Practical familiarity with Workday Financials Workday Adaptive Planning or Business Intelligence
- Fundamental understanding of public sector accounting standards (GASB) and fund accounting principles.
- Familiarity with continuous process improvement (CPI) techniques (e.g. Lean Root Cause Analysis) to streamline financial workflows.
Required Skills:
Education: Bachelors degree in Human Resources Business Administration Data Analytics Information Systems or a related field required Masters degree in Data Analytics Business Intelligence or a related discipline is a plus an equivalent combination of education and experience may also be considered Experience: 3 years of experience in a people analytics HR systems or business analyst role within a mid-size organization Experience with reporting and analytics tools such as Workday Prism Power BI or other business intelligence platforms Experience in HR data structures processes and key metrics across the employee lifecycle (e.g. talent acquisition engagement attrition performance) Strong understanding of core HR processes and data domains (e.g. headcount turnover diversity performance compensation) Experience gathering and documenting business requirements for HR technology initiatives (Workday preferred) Experience in gathering documenting and translating business requirements into system or reporting solutions Experience working with HRIS platforms (e.g. Workday) and analytics tools (e.g. Workday Prism Power BI) for data management and analysis. Experience in a global or multinational environment.
Required Education:
Bachelors degree in Human Resources Business Administration Data Analytics Information Systems or a related field requiredMasters degree in Data Analytics Business Intelligence or a related discipline is a plus an equivalent combination of education and experience may also be considered
