What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Reporting Analyst position at Ardent Health?
**This is an onsite role located in Brentwood, TN.
Ardent Health is a leading provider of healthcare in growing mid-sized urban communities across the U.S. With a focus on people and investments in innovative services and technologies, Ardent is passionate about making healthcare better and easier to access. Through its subsidiaries, Ardent delivers care through a system of 30 acute care hospitals, 24,000 team members and more than 280 sites of care with over 1,800 affiliated providers across six states.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Financial Reporting Analyst is a role designed to collaborate across accounting, decision support, and finance teams. This position will support all hospital-based service lines across the enterprise, ensuring financial performance monitoring, reporting accuracy, and data-driven decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Assists in the preparation of budgets for hospital-based service lines in coordination with market finance and accounting teams.
- Monitors financial performance of facility contracts for internal Monthly Operating Review (MOR) reporting.
- Evaluates financial performance of current vendor partners against budget and prior-period trends, analyzing variances.
- Develops and maintain dashboards for on-call and medical directorship expenditures.
- Collaborates with internal decision support teams to create analytical data packages supporting RFP data needs across service lines.
- Builds and maintains KPI dashboards for hospital-based service lines.
- Works with decision support and clinical IS teams to generate ad hoc reports aiding in operational staffing and site-of-service decision-making.
- Supports internal executives on confidential due diligence to assess financial considerations related to new hospital-based service line ventures.
Qualifications
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, or a related field.
- 2 years of experience in hospital accounting, decision support, or finance.
- Master’s degree, preferred.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Familiarity with hospital-based physician service lines.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, including pivot tables, formulas, and analytical functions, preferred.
- Familiarity with EPIC Cogito, Power BI, or similar Business Intelligence (BI) platforms, preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills preferred.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work collaboratively across teams, preferred.
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