Healthcare Financial Advisory Manager – Decision Support & Cost Accounting

About the role

Huron seeks a Manager of Decision Support & Cost Accounting to join its Healthcare Financial Advisory services practice. This role involves leading cost accounting and service line margin engagements for hospitals and health systems, often utilizing the StrataJazz Decision Support platform.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of cost accounting and service line margin engagements for hospitals and health systems
• Leverage the StrataJazz Decision Support platform to configure and validate models, including step-down allocation methodologies and Time-Driven Costing (TDABC)
• Build service line P&Ls, DRG-level cost models, and contribution margin frameworks that healthcare CFOs can act upon
• Translate complex cost and margin analyses into clear, decision-ready insights for finance leaders
• Partner with project and relationship leaders in client interactions with CFO and VP Finance stakeholders
• Contribute to the development of reusable engagement playbooks and delivery templates

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in healthcare finance consulting or healthcare provider finance, with direct responsibility for decision support, cost accounting, or service line financial analytics
• 2-3 years of hands-on experience with StrataJazz Decision Support or a comparable healthcare EPM / cost accounting platform, including direct involvement in model configuration, validation, and analysis
• Demonstrated experience building and delivering service line margin analyses, service line P&Ls, or DRG-level cost models using step-down allocation methodologies; Time-Driven Costing (TDABC) experience strongly preferred
• Proven ability to lead consulting engagements or major workstreams, including scope management, timeline management, quality control, and day-to-day client communication
• Strong consulting toolkit, including client-ready deliverables, executive presentations, and financial models
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with comfort working in detail-intensive financial models and summarizing findings for senior stakeholders
• Proven ability to coach and develop junior team members, providing technical guidance, review, and feedback
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Healthcare Administration, or a related field; advanced degree or CPA/MBA a plus

Qualifications

• Highly self-directed, analytically rigorous, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment
• Variety of responsibilities including business and financial planning, projections and scenario analyses, decision support and cost accounting, interim management/strategy execution, business assessments & due diligence, restructuring & turnaround, executive/Board advisory, CFO support solutions, liquidity forecasting and management, working capital management, valuations, FP&A assistance for profit improvement

Pay

The estimated base salary range for this job is $165,000 - $215,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel.

Schedule

Candidates may reside anywhere in the contiguous United States near a major airport. Travel requirements vary by project; candidates must be willing to travel up to 80% on a weekly basis.