Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

A leading medical institution is seeking a Financial Analyst to support high-volume accounts payable operations, financial analysis, reporting, and process improvement initiatives. This role requires a strong accounting or finance professional who can work independently in a complex environment, analyze financial data, resolve operational issues, and collaborate across finance, procurement, and business teams. The ideal candidate combines deep accounts payable knowledge with broader analytical, reporting, reconciliation, and process improvement experience.

Financial Analyst Responsibilities:

• Analyze accounts payable operations, invoice workflows, payment processing activities, and financial data to identify trends, resolve issues, improve efficiency, and ensure timely and accurate disbursements.
• Manage high-volume invoice processing activities, including invoice coding, credit memos, approval routing, payment requests, budget and compliance reviews, and procure-to-pay policy adherence.
• Research, investigate, and resolve complex invoice, payment, vendor, electronic invoicing, tax, and outstanding payment issues while providing guidance to internal departments and external vendors.
• Perform reconciliations, operational reporting, financial analysis, ad hoc reporting, and process improvement initiatives to support departmental performance, compliance, and decision-making.
• Create, maintain, and analyze reports using ERP systems and Excel; monitor work queues, service level agreements, and key operational metrics to ensure efficient financial operations.
• Support financial controls, sales and use tax compliance, 1099 reporting requirements, documentation management, and adherence to organizational policies and procedures.
• Partner cross-functionally with Finance, Procurement, Accounts Payable, and operational stakeholders to improve processes, support system enhancements, and drive operational excellence.
• Assist with Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation activities, user support, issue resolution, and process optimization efforts as needed.

Financial Analyst Qualifications:

• 5+ years of accounting, finance, accounts payable analysis, or financial operations experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• Experience in a hospital, healthcare, university, or similarly complex organizational environment is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of the full accounts payable lifecycle, including invoice processing, payment processing, vendor management, reconciliations, compliance, and reporting.
• Demonstrated experience performing financial analysis, account reconciliations, reporting, operational analysis, and process improvement initiatives beyond transactional AP processing.
• Experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud (Oracle Financials Cloud) is strongly preferred.
• Experience with GHX is preferred.
• Experience with large ERP systems and the ability to quickly learn new financial platforms.
• Advanced Excel skills with experience analyzing large datasets, creating reports, and identifying trends.

Shift:

• Hybrid: Regularly 3 days onsite with work from home on other days. On-site work depends on need, such as more on-site work for training and Oracle system implementation go-live.