FP&A Analyst Senior

Location & Schedule

Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center, Columbia, MD 21044 – Day Shift, Full‑Time

About the Role

The FP&A Analyst Senior partners with local operational leaders to develop the entity’s annual budget and near‑term forecasts, monitor performance against plan, and provide decision‑ready insights that reflect local drivers and constraints. The role translates centrally provided templates, standards, and assumptions into local plans and narratives, and supplies local commentary for downstream reports.

Responsibilities

• Lead the local budgeting process with department managers (volumes, rates, FTE/labor, non‑payroll spend) using central templates and timelines.
• Produce monthly variance analysis and performance‑review materials for local leadership; recommend corrective actions.
• Maintain a rolling near‑term forecast (e.g., monthly/quarterly) for locally controllable lines; quantify risks/opportunities.
• Partner with operations to evaluate business cases and capital requests; provide local financial inputs and sensitivity analyses, including mid‑month variance tracking and monthly operational improvement targets.
• Prepare local management reports/KPIs (productivity, volumes, unit costs) consistent with central definitions.
• Support special projects (service expansions, program changes) with specific modeling and scenario analysis.
• Ensure local data quality and flag exceptions to central Finance for master data or rules fixes.
• Prepare local and consolidated reporting elements such as Labor Expense reports, Labor Productivity LUC reports, and volume reports.
• Coordinate with the Controller’s Office on local accounting‑related tasks when required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field (required).
• Master’s Degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field (preferred).
• 5+ years of experience in financial analysis, accounting, or a related field (required).
• One year of relevant education may be substituted for one year of required work experience, or one year of relevant professional‑level work experience may be substituted for one year of required education.

Skills & Abilities

• Translate operational trends into financial impact.
• Prioritize competing local deadlines.
• Communicate insights clearly to non‑finance leaders.
• Understanding of local service‑line economics, labor productivity metrics, and volume/price/mix drivers.
• Experience with enterprise budgeting/forecasting tools, spreadsheet modeling, and BI dashboards.
• Collaborate with clinical and operations leaders; coordinate local consolidated reporting components.
• Navigate rapidly changing situations, remain flexible, continuously learn, and recover quickly from setbacks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with emphasis on confidentiality, tact, and diplomacy.
• Strong attention to detail; self‑directed to ensure data integrity and accuracy.
• Work seamlessly within diverse teams to provide patient‑centered care and achieve collective goals.
• Assist colleagues in understanding and adhering to compliance procedures; proactively identify and mitigate low‑level compliance risks.
• Make decisions guided by general instructions and practices; influence department strategy and address moderately complex problems.
• Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook).

Compensation

Salary range: $41.00 per hour – $65.60 per hour. Compensation will be commensurate with equity and experience for roles of similar scope and responsibility.