Senior Finance Analyst

Overview

A Senior Finance Analyst role is available to serve as a key business partner to operations, providing financial insight and support to drive growth, efficiency, and accountability across the state. This position reports to the Senior Director of State Operations in California.

The role involves understanding and communicating the "story behind the numbers," ensuring financial data translates into actionable insights for operational decision-making. Responsibilities include overseeing financial processes such as variance analysis, ROI evaluation on marketing and growth initiatives, reimbursement tracking, denial management, contractual oversight, revenue cycle management monitoring, NDA reporting, and RFP compilation.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic finance partner to the California market leadership team, supporting business planning, operational reviews, and performance optimization.
• Lead financial analysis and provide insights on revenue, expenses, and margin drivers, including variance explanations, ROI assessments, and operational trend reviews.
• Translate contract terms and assumptions into clear operational expectations and daily targets (e.g., productivity, staffing models, unit delivery, billing rules).
• Monitor contract-level execution to identify early risks and produce contract-specific performance metrics such as cost per unit and margin erosion.
• Support remediation, renegotiation, or exit decisions related to contracts.
• Develop systems and processes to monitor and communicate expectations and daily targets.
• Oversee revenue capture, contractual reserves, reimbursement accuracy, and denial rate monitoring to ensure revenue realization and financial integrity.
• Collaborate with revenue cycle teams to ensure billing processes and payer relationships support sustainable revenue streams.
• Develop and manage market-level budgets and forecasts, aligning assumptions and targets with operations and central finance.
• Build and maintain tools to enhance visibility into key financial and operational performance metrics.
• Provide financial oversight for cost reporting, market-level KPIs, and ad hoc analyses.
• Supervise program data analysts to ensure timely and accurate contract deliverables.
• Assist in evaluating growth initiatives, service line expansions, and capital investments by providing ROI and payback analyses.
• Participate in evaluating and responding to RFPs.
• Build strong working relationships with operational leaders to ensure financial information is clear, relevant, and actionable.
• Support implementation of financial systems, process improvements, and internal controls to enhance reporting accuracy and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business required; MBA or related advanced degree preferred.
• 6–10 years of progressive finance or accounting experience, preferably with exposure to healthcare, IDD, or Medicaid-based organizations.
• Proven ability to partner with operations, translating financial data into meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Strong understanding of healthcare reimbursement, contractual adjustments, and denial management.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis in behavioral health or healthcare environments.
• Analytical thinker capable of working with large datasets and synthesizing complex information into clear, actionable insights.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and financial modeling; familiarity with ERP or BI tools is highly desirable.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across finance and operations.
• Experience in private equity or exposure to PE-backed environments is preferred.
• Proactive, hands-on leader with a bias for action and continuous improvement.

Location

• California (statewide operations focus)