What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Financial Analyst position at Hearst Health?
Position Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Senior Financial Analyst is a key contributor to Homecare Homebase’s finance transformation. Reporting to the Director of FP&A, this role supports the evolution of HCHB’s forecasting, planning, and performance management capabilities as the company transitions to a modern SaaS business model.
The successful candidate will be highly analytical, system-savvy, and intellectually curious, combining modeling and forecasting expertise with an ability to interpret operational performance, connect financial outcomes to business drivers, and enable disciplined, data-driven decision making. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence how HCHB measures success, allocates resources, and drives profitable growth.
Key Responsibilities
Transformation & Performance Enablement
Homecare Homebase (HCHB), a Hearst Health company, is the leading provider of enterprise software and solutions for home-based care. Our mission is to empower exceptional care for every patient, every time, everywhere.
HCHB is transforming its financial and operational capabilities to support a modern SaaS growth strategy—one that combines scale, innovation, and financial discipline. Our **CARES values—Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, Excellence, and Service—**guide how we work every day and define the culture of our finance organization: transparent, analytical, and focused on enabling our teams and customers to succeed.
Compensation & Benefits
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Senior Financial Analyst is a key contributor to Homecare Homebase’s finance transformation. Reporting to the Director of FP&A, this role supports the evolution of HCHB’s forecasting, planning, and performance management capabilities as the company transitions to a modern SaaS business model.
The successful candidate will be highly analytical, system-savvy, and intellectually curious, combining modeling and forecasting expertise with an ability to interpret operational performance, connect financial outcomes to business drivers, and enable disciplined, data-driven decision making. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence how HCHB measures success, allocates resources, and drives profitable growth.
Key Responsibilities
Transformation & Performance Enablement
- Partner with the Finance leadership to advance HCHB’s finance transformation roadmap, including Oracle EPM implementation, standardized reporting, and enterprise performance dashboards.
- Build and maintain a driver-based rolling forecasting model that integrates revenue, expense, and capital planning across SaaS and services lines of business.
- Develop deeper scenario and whit-if modeling capabilities to evaluate performance under varying business and market conditions.
- Support analytics for the Saas transition, including ARR bridges, renewal and retention modeling, and migration pacing.
- Help design Balanced Scorecard metrics linking operational KPIs (ARR per FTE, NRR, retention, Rule of 40, NOI growth, etc.) to financial outcomes.
- Participate in monthly forecasting and business review cycles, ensuring consistency of key metrics across product, revenue, and cost centers.
- Own components of the annual operating plan, long-range plan, and rolling forecasts with dynamic updates based on latest assumptions and trends.
- Prepare variance analyses, scenario models, and sensitivity testing to guide leadership decisions.
- Build and maintain complex financial models for pricing, product investments, and capital project evaluation (ROI, IRR, payback).
- Implement advance forecasting techniques such as regression modeling, cohort analysis, and Monte Carlo simulation to strengthen predictability and risk evaluation.
- Development of standardized templates for monthly performance packs and board materials, driving consistency and accuracy across FP&A deliverables.
- Partner with accounting during close to ensure forecast alignment, accurate accruals, and data integrity.
- Engage directly with Product, Engineering, Revenue Operations, and G&A leaders to interpret results, identify improvement levers, and translate operational data into actionable financial insights.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering on capitalized software tracking and project ROI measurement in alignment with ASC 350-40 guidelines.
- Partner with Sales and Customer Success to analyze revenue retention, contraction, and churn indicators, developing early-warning dashboards and predictive analytics for customer health.
- Serve as a trusted finance liaison who helps functional leaders understand their budgets, targets, and cost structures.
- Support automation and analytic initiatives (Power BI, Oracle EPM, SmartView) to enhance reporting speed, accuracy, and self-service,
- Streamline forecasting and reporting processes by documenting workflows, identifying redundancies, and helping establish scalable operating rhythms.
- Support data governance by maintaining clear data lineage and ensuring metric consistency across systems.
- Contribute to continuous FP&A capability building through automation, benchmarking, and forecasting process improvement across the Hearst Health portfolio.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA preferred.
- 4–7 years of progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience, ideally within SaaS, healthcare technology, or high-growth enterprise environments.
- Advance proficiency in financial modeling, rolling forecast creation, scenario planning, and whit-if analysis.
- Expertise with modern FP&A systems (Oracle EPM, SmartView, Anaplan, Adaptive, Power BI).Strong understanding of SaaS metrics (ARR, NRR, CAC, churn, lifetime value) and financial frameworks (ROI, IRR, payback, margin analysis).
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, maintain accuracy under tight deadlines, and drive process automation.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to simplify complex data for executive audiences.
- Analytical Rigor: Builds models that drive insight and decision making.
- Strategic Agility: Thrives in a dynamic, evolving environment; embraces new tools, processes, and operating models.
- Business Partnership: Builds credibility and trust with functional leaders through transparency, responsiveness, and insight.
- Systems Mindset: Leverages technology and automation to scale analytical capability.
- Integrity & Accountability: Upholds the highest standards of accuracy, confidentiality, and ethical conduct.
Homecare Homebase (HCHB), a Hearst Health company, is the leading provider of enterprise software and solutions for home-based care. Our mission is to empower exceptional care for every patient, every time, everywhere.
HCHB is transforming its financial and operational capabilities to support a modern SaaS growth strategy—one that combines scale, innovation, and financial discipline. Our **CARES values—Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, Excellence, and Service—**guide how we work every day and define the culture of our finance organization: transparent, analytical, and focused on enabling our teams and customers to succeed.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive base salary and annual performance bonus
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) with company match
- Flexible hybrid work environment and generous PTO
- Ongoing professional development and continuing education opportunities
- Exposure to Hearst Health’s enterprise finance network and career pathways