Financial Analyst | Corporate Finance | Full Time

General Summary

Under the leadership of the Director of Finance, Budget & Forecast, the Financial Analyst supports Henry Ford Health’s system-wide budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes. This role assists with financial analysis, data validation, reporting, planning tools, and recurring budget and forecast activities.

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

• Supports Henry Ford Health’s system-wide annual operating budget, forecasting, and related financial planning processes.
• Maintains and updates financial planning models, templates, databases, reporting structures, and system tools used to support budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis.
• Participates in testing, validation, maintenance, and user support activities within Axiom and other financial planning applications.
• Affords assistance in the development, distribution, and maintenance of budget guidance, planning assumptions, instructions, timelines, templates, and other materials used by finance partners and operational leaders.
• Affords assistance in the development, validation, and reconciliation of annual key volume targets in partnership with system strategy, operational stakeholders, and finance leadership.
• Develops, validates, reconciles, and maintains financial and operational datasets from multiple source systems, including general ledger, budget, forecast, volume, labor, and other operational data sources.
• Performs financial analyses, variance analysis, rollforwards, and decision-support work to evaluate financial performance, budget changes, forecast updates, operational initiatives, and planning assumptions.
• Summarizes financial, operational, and system data into clear analysis, explanations, and presentation materials for department leadership, management, and senior leadership review.
• Affords assistance in preparing executive-level presentations, board materials, System Finance Committee materials, budget approval packages, financial summaries, and other leadership reporting.
• Supports monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting packages by compiling, reviewing, analyzing, and explaining key financial and operational information.
• Works with finance and operational stakeholders to investigate significant or unusual variances, identify drivers of performance, and support resolution of data or reporting issues.
• Reviews financial systems, planning tools, and reporting outputs to support accuracy, data integrity, consistency, and compliance with financial reporting controls.
• Identifies and supports opportunities to streamline budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and data management processes through automation, standardization, improved tools, and better use of available technology.
• Develops and maintains documentation for recurring processes, system workflows, reporting procedures, planning tools, and department responsibilities.
• Supports implementation of new financial planning tools, reporting solutions, process improvements, and system enhancements, including testing, validation, user support, and change management activities.
• Provides analytical and technical support to finance users, including reviewing data submissions, assisting with reporting questions, troubleshooting basic planning tool issues, and helping users understand financial planning processes.
• Collaborates with team members and department leadership to maintain recurring budget and forecast processes, track key deliverables, coordinate timelines, and support completion of department priorities.
• Participates in meetings, workgroups, committees, and special projects related to budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, operational performance, system reporting, and process improvement.
• Ensures work is performed in accordance with internal controls, financial reporting expectations, organizational policies, and established department standards.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required Education & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Minimum of 0-5 years of experience in Finance or related field.
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Office, specifically Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.

Preferred Experience

• Internship, coursework, or work experience in finance, accounting, healthcare administration, business analytics, economics, or a related field.
• Exposure to budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, or financial reporting processes.
• Experience preparing financial analysis, reports, presentations, or summaries for review by others.
• Experience working with financial, operational, or business datasets.
• Exposure to healthcare finance, hospital operations, or large complex organizations preferred.
• Interest in process improvement, automation, financial systems, and data-driven decision support.

Preferred Technical Skills

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables, lookups, and data organization.
• Exposure to Power Query, Power BI, or other data transformation and reporting tools preferred.
• Exposure to budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, or financial reporting systems preferred; Axiom, Strata, or PeopleSoft experience a plus.
• Basic financial analysis, modeling, and scenario analysis skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify data inconsistencies or reporting issues.
• Ability to work with large datasets and reconcile information from multiple sources.
• Interest in using technology, automation, and improved tools to streamline recurring finance processes.

Additional Information

Organization: Corporate Services
Department: Corporate Finance
Shift: Day
Job Union Code: Not Applicable