Senior Financial Analyst

Company Description HNL Lab Medicine is a leading multi-regional, full-service medical laboratory that has been operating for over 25 years, providing testing and diagnostic services to physician offices, hospitals, long-term care facilities, employers, and industrial clients. Guided by a vision to give every person clarity and insight to live healthier, the organization focuses on bringing clarity to care through trusted answers that shape better health outcomes. With more than 50 patient service centers across Pennsylvania and 33 acute care laboratories within partner hospital sites, HNL Lab Medicine has a broad and growing presence. The team includes over 2,200 employees and more than 109 pathologists and scientific directors dedicated to expert medical and technical diagnostic guidance. HNL Lab Medicine emphasizes the real-life impact of every test, treating patients as individuals and taking its responsibility to them seriously.

Role Description The Senior Financial Analyst is a strategic finance partner delivering timely financial analysis, actionable insights, and decision support to improve organizational performance. We are a growing company with multiple strategic priorities progressing simultaneously. The role must balance recurring financial planning and reporting responsibilities with concurrent growth initiatives, operational projects, and time-sensitive leadership requests. The analyst partners across the organization, translates complex financial and operational data into clear actions, and helps leaders understand the financial implications of business decisions.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. ( These duties are the core tasks and responsibilities of the position)

• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning for assigned areas, leveraging financial and operational data to support strategic decision-making.
• Prepare and present monthly financial performance reporting, variance analyses, and management insights, while identifying key revenue, expense, volume, productivity, and staffing trends.
• Develop and maintain financial models, scenario analyses, and forecasting tools that improve reporting accuracy, support resource allocation decisions, and strengthen partnerships with operational leaders.
• Partner with Accounting and operational leaders throughout the month-end close process to prepare, validate, and document accruals, financial estimates, and supporting analyses for assigned areas.
• Review financial and operational data, including invoices, contracts, purchasing activity, and staffing information, to ensure accurate expense recognition and identify account fluctuations, risks, and variances.
• Lead departmental close reviews and provide timely analytical support, communicating key findings, reclassifications, emerging risks, opportunities, and required follow-up actions to Finance, Accounting, and business partners.
• Lead financial evaluation and execution of strategic initiatives, expansion opportunities, capital investments, and operating model changes through business case development, financial modeling, and data-driven analysis.
• Partner with business leaders and cross-functional teams to define objectives, assess alternatives, identify financial risks and opportunities, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Manage multiple competing priorities while monitoring initiative performance, tracking results against approved assumptions, and communicating progress, variances, and business impact to leadership.
• Extract, validate, and transform financial, operational, and business intelligence data into reliable decision-support reporting, dashboards, models, and leadership presentations.
• Strengthen data quality and reporting consistency by documenting assumptions, definitions, data sources, and repeatable processes.
• Automate and streamline recurring analyses, close support, forecasting, and management reporting while using analytics to identify business drivers.
• Build trusted partnerships with leaders and subject-matter experts across the organization, serving as a responsive and strategic Finance business partner.
• Communicate complex financial information clearly to diverse audiences, provide constructive challenge to assumptions, and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Exercise sound judgment, maintain confidentiality and HIPAA compliance, and deliver timely analytical support while ensuring follow-through on commitments and business priorities.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Skills:

• Demonstrated analytical skills
• Advanced Excel skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Agile, innovative
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of accounting/financial/operational principles

Education/Experience:

Bachelor’s degree (B.S./B.A.) from a four-year college or university in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field. Minimum 5 years of progressive financial analysis experience, preferably in health care or laboratory diagnostics.