Consulting Associate, Healthcare Financial Planning & Analysis

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

When healthcare organizations are managing escalating financial stress, Huron recognizes that the response must be urgent and direct. Huron’s industry-leading Healthcare Financial Advisory Services team works with healthcare leaders to strengthen financial management and prioritize business decisions that improve the financial trajectory of their organizations.

Huron assists clients through improved planning and operations and during periods of financial and operational change. Solutions are tailored to a variety of situations, including:
• Business and financial planning, projections, and scenario analyses
• Budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning
• Decision support, cost accounting, and service-line analytics
• FP&A support and profit improvement
• Interim management and strategy execution
• Business assessments and due diligence
• Restructuring and turnaround
• Executive and Board advisory
• CFO support solutions
• Liquidity forecasting and management
• Working capital management
• Valuations

We are seeking a Consulting Associate, Financial Planning & Analysis to join Huron’s Healthcare Financial Advisory Services practice. In this role, you will help hospitals and health systems strengthen the financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance reporting, and analytical capabilities that support informed decision-making. You will often work directly with CFO organizations, finance leadership teams, and operational stakeholders.

You will work across the financial planning and performance-management cycle, helping clients establish financial expectations, monitor results, understand performance drivers, and determine where management action may be needed. Depending on the engagement, you may support annual operating budgets, rolling forecasts, long-range financial plans, labor and compensation models, capital budgets, monthly performance reporting, KPI development, scenario modeling, and other strategic or operational analyses.

Your work will involve translating operational assumptions, including patient volumes, staffing levels, compensation, reimbursement, revenue, and departmental expenses, into integrated financial plans and forecasts. You will also combine financial and operational information to evaluate actual performance, identify the underlying drivers of revenue, labor, operating expense, and margin results, and assess the potential implications for future performance.

Working alongside Huron project and relationship leaders and client finance and operational leaders, you will collect and validate assumptions, develop financial models, perform budget-to-actual and forecast-to-actual analyses, and translate complex findings into clear, decision-ready insights. Engagements may also include implementing or improving enterprise planning processes, management reporting tools, and performance-management platforms.

You will also contribute to reusable financial models, planning methodologies, reporting tools, and engagement approaches that strengthen Huron’s broader healthcare financial planning and analysis capabilities.

Candidates do not need equal depth across every area. We encourage applicants with strong experience in budgeting and forecasting, performance analysis and reporting, or a combination of these capabilities to apply.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant experience in healthcare finance consulting, hospital or health system finance, healthcare provider FP&A, budgeting and forecasting, decision support, accounting, transaction or advisory services, or a related analytical role
• Experience supporting hospitals, health systems, or other healthcare provider organizations, either internally or through consulting engagements
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Operating budgets, rolling forecasts, or long-range financial planning
  • Financial and operational performance analysis, management reporting, or KPI development
  • Labor, staffing, compensation, revenue, volume, expense, or capital planning
  • Scenario modeling, financial forecasting, or decision support
• Experience with healthcare-specific financial and operational measures, such as net patient revenue, patient volumes, payer mix, labor productivity, service-line performance, contribution margin, or capital planning, strongly preferred
• Demonstrated ability to perform budget-to-actual, forecast-to-actual, or other financial and operational variance analyses; identify performance drivers; and translate findings into actionable business insights
• Working knowledge of healthcare finance, including financial statements and the relationships among patient volumes, reimbursement, revenue, labor, operating expenses, and overall financial performance
• Experience working with finance and operational stakeholders to collect and validate assumptions, develop financial projections, communicate findings, and support decision-making
• Strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities, including advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint and experience creating management reports, presentations, and other client-ready deliverables
• Experience with StrataJazz, Workday Adaptive Planning, Oracle EPM/Hyperion, Anaplan, Power BI, or a comparable financial planning, performance-management, or reporting platform, strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Healthcare Administration, or a related field; CPA, MBA, or another relevant advanced degree or professional credential preferred
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple responsibilities and connect detailed financial analysis to broader business implications in a fast-paced consulting environment

Travel and Home Location

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

The estimated base salary range for this job is $120,000 - $165,000. 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. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $138,000 - $189,750. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

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Position Level

Associate

Country

United States of America