Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ascension is a nonprofit Catholic health system seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support financial analytics, reporting, budgeting, and strategic planning. The role provides quantitative decision support to leadership, performs accounting and reconciliation activities, and delivers actionable insights across organizational initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Financial Analytics & Reporting: Extract internal source data to perform statistical, cost, and operational financial analyses, engineering actionable reports to guide core business decisions
- Budgeting & Planning: Facilitate end-to-end budget preparation and strategic financial planning processes across organizational initiatives
- Management Consulting: Serve as an internal financial advisor across all leadership levels, providing quantitative decision support for strategic initiatives, policies, and operational procedures
- Systems Integration & Reconciliation: Load final budget spreads into designated financial software systems and execute comprehensive data reconciliations to ensure ledger accuracy
- Accounting Fundamentals & Close: Apply robust accounting knowledge to execute month-end close processes, ledger reconciliations, and foundational financial operations
- Data Analytics & Communication: Leverage strong analytical skills to manipulate complex data, interpret findings clearly, and deliver insights with executive presence to cross-functional leaders
- Educational & Professional Foundation: Bring a strong baseline of technical accounting expertise, supported by a Bachelor's degree (highly preferred)
Skills
- High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required
- Apply robust accounting knowledge to execute month-end close processes, ledger reconciliations, and foundational financial operations
- Leverage strong analytical skills to manipulate complex data, interpret findings clearly, and deliver insights with executive presence to cross-functional leaders
- Bring a strong baseline of technical accounting expertise, supported by a Bachelor's degree (highly preferred)
Benefits
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Various health insurance options & wellness plans
- Retirement benefits including employer match plans
- Long-term & short-term disability
- Employee assistance programs (EAP)
- Parental leave & adoption assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Ways to give back to your community
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