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. The analyst works collaboratively with finance partners, operational stakeholders, and department leadership to maintain accurate financial information, support planning timelines, prepare analysis and reporting materials, and contribute to process improvements that strengthen the accuracy, efficiency, and transparency of HFH's planning and forecasting 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.
Assists with the development, distribution, and maintenance of budget guidance, planning assumptions, instructions, timelines, templates, and other materials used by finance partners and operational leaders.
Supports department leadership, system finance, operational leaders, strategy partners, and subject matter experts in developing annual financial targets, volume assumptions, key deliverables, and planning inputs.
Assists with 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.
Assists 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:
Bachelors 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.
I nterest 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.
Ability to work with large datasets and reconcile information from multiple sources.
Basic financial analysis, modeling, and scenario analysis skills.
Strong attention to detail and ability to identify data inconsistencies or reporting issues.
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
Additional Details
This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.
Overview
Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services - from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford's care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation's most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers .
Benefits
The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That's why we offer support in the various components of our team's well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is
committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to
race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height,
weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information,
or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.
