Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst

Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

With one of the nation's largest, most innovative long-term care pharmacy services providers, there is no limit to the growth of your career.

Our unique business model combines the personal touch of locally operated pharmacies with the robust support of our Atlanta-based corporate team, ensuring best-in-class pharmacy care for our customers.

Guardian is building out its Financial Planning & Analysis function and is hiring its first FP&A Analyst to support enterprise-level finance work, regional financial reporting, and a growing analytics function. This role splits time across four areas: corporate FP&A priorities (budgeting, forecasting, executive and investor reporting); direct support of Guardian's Regional Presidents, helping them understand and communicate their region's quarterly financial performance; partnership with the Business Intelligence team on reporting and dashboard development; and ad hoc analytical support to other functional teams — including Purchasing and Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) — as data and analytics needs arise across the business.

This is a highly visible role for someone who wants broad exposure across a public, multi-region healthcare services company — partnering with corporate leadership as well as operating leaders in the field. It is well suited to someone early-to-mid career who wants to build both technical FP&A skills and business partnering experience.

What You'll Do

Corporate FP&A Support — Approximately 40%

• Support the consolidated forecasting process by analyzing quarterly results and evaluating how current trends may affect future performance.
• Review monthly revenue, resident, prescription volume, and related operating metrics to support current- and future-quarter forecasts.
• Maintain and enhance executive dashboards tracking key performance indicators, including resident gains and losses, production labor per prescription, and operating profit.
• Partner with the Director of FP&A on quarterly financial analysis and the communication of results to executive leadership and Investor Relations.
• Prepare timely, decision-focused analyses for the CFO, CEO, COO, Investor Relations, and other senior leaders.

Regional Financial Reporting and Analysis — Approximately 20%

• Prepare quarterly financial performance packages for an assigned group of Regional Senior Vice Presidents using standardized reporting templates.
• Translate operating drivers—including occupancy trends, resident gains and losses, prescription volume, and labor metrics—into a clear financial narrative.
• Analyze performance against budget and forecast, identifying emerging risks, trends, and opportunities within each region.
• Serve as a responsive FP&A resource for regional leaders and assist with financial questions and follow-up analysis between quarterly reviews.

Business Intelligence — Approximately 25%

• Partner with the Business Intelligence team to develop, test, and maintain reports and dashboards using Guardian's BI platforms, including Power BI.
• Understand business challenges and proactively recommend reporting, analytical, and technical solutions.
• Perform data validation and quality assurance for reports and dashboards before they are distributed to executive and regional leaders.
• Translate requests from finance and operating leaders into clear BI reporting requirements and specifications.
• Document report logic, data definitions, and refresh schedules as Guardian's BI capabilities continue to evolve.

Cross-Functional Analytics — Approximately 15%

• Serve as an FP&A partner to Purchasing, Pharmacy Benefit Management, and other departments, gathering and analyzing data used in company forecasts.
• Respond to ad hoc analytical requests from functional teams, coordinating priorities, scope, and timing with the Director of FP&A.
• Support additional financial and analytical initiatives as business needs evolve.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• One to four years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting, or another analytical role.
• Strong Excel and financial-modeling skills.
• Experience with business intelligence and dashboard tools such as Power BI or Tableau is strongly preferred.
• SQL or other data-querying experience is a plus.
• Ability to work with large—and sometimes imperfect—datasets and translate findings into a clear, meaningful business story.
• Comfort partnering with non-finance teams, including Purchasing and PBM, to understand their data and turn it into actionable analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to present information to both finance and non-finance leaders.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple workstreams with limited day-to-day oversight.
• Experience within healthcare, a multi-site organization, or a publicly traded company is helpful but not required.

What Will Help You Succeed

• Analytical curiosity: You look beyond the numbers to understand what is driving performance and what it means for the business.
• Business partnership: You build credibility with leaders and become a trusted resource for financial and operational insights.
• Initiative and ownership: You anticipate needs, follow through on commitments, and take pride in producing accurate, high-quality work.
• Planning and prioritization: You think ahead and effectively balance forecasting, reporting, BI, and ad hoc analytical requests.
• Problem-solving: You are comfortable investigating complex questions and developing practical solutions.
• Collaboration: You work effectively across Finance, Operations, BI, Purchasing, PBM, and other teams.
• Integrity: You demonstrate sound judgment and values consistent with Guardian's people-first culture.

What We Offer:

Guardian provides employees with a comprehensive Total Rewards package, supporting our core value of, "Treat others as you would like to be treated." Compensation & Financial

• Competitive pay
• 401(k) with company match

Family, Health & Insurance Benefits (Full-Time employees working 30+ hours/week only)

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts
• Company-paid Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment
• Company-paid Long-Term Disability and optional Short-Term Disability
• Voluntary Employee and Dependent Life, Accident and Critical Illness
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

Wellbeing

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Guardian Angels (Employee assistance fund)

Time Off

• Paid holidays and sick days
• Generous vacation benefits based on years of service

The Guardian Difference

Our clients require pharmacy services that aren't "cookie cutter." That's why every Guardian pharmacy is locally operated and empowered with the autonomy to tailor their business to meet their clients' needs.

Our corporate support offices, based in Atlanta, Ga., provide services such as human resources, business intelligence, legal, and marketing to promote the success of each Guardian location.

Regardless of your role at Guardian, your voice and talents matter. Because healthcare is an ever-changing industry, we encourage innovative thinking, intellectual curiosity, and diverse viewpoints to ensure we stay competitive in today's dynamic business environment.

At Guardian, we are dedicated to fostering and advancing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Join us to discover what your best work truly looks like.