Financial Analyst - Healthcare

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The Financial Analyst will support financial planning, analysis, and reporting for 3PL (Third Party Logistics), a business segment within CoverMyMeds. You’ll partner closely with Accounting, FP&A, operations leaders, and cost center owners to turn financial results into actionable insights, with particular focus on revenue, gross profit, operating expenses, forecasting, and the monthly close.

What You'll Do

• Analyze financial performance and deliver timely, actionable insights that support business decisions.
• Develop and maintain Excel-based financial models, forecasts, budgets, long-range plans, and ad hoc analyses.
• Analyze revenue, gross profit, and operating expense performance against budget, forecast, prior periods, and strategic plans.
• Own monthly operating expense reporting for assigned categories and consolidate results across cost centers to explain total segment performance.
• Identify key financial drivers, risks, and opportunities and translate results into concise commentary for business leaders.
• Partner with cost center owners to understand spending trends, vendor commitments, contracts, and headcount-related costs and incorporate those drivers into forecasts.
• Support month-end close by reviewing financial results and helping identify accruals, reclassifications, corrections, and other accounting needs before close.
• Prepare variance explanations and supporting materials for post-close reviews with business leaders and cost center owners.
• Maintain financial controls and supporting documentation to help ensure accurate, timely, and reliable reporting.
• Collaborate with Accounting, operations, FSS, and Corporate and business-unit FP&A teams on financial analysis and planning.
• Lead ad hoc financial and planning projects by clarifying objectives, evaluating assumptions, and developing recommendations with limited supervision.
• Identify opportunities to make financial reporting, forecasting, reconciliation, and close processes faster and more reliable.
• Build repeatable reporting using Excel, Power BI, and enterprise planning and reporting systems.
• Apply AI and automation tools, including Copilot and Power Automate, to streamline recurring data pulls, reconciliations, analysis, and first-draft financial commentary.
• Cross-train across FP&A responsibilities and provide backup support to the broader team.

Skills You’ll Need

• Bring 3+ years of experience in accounting, finance, financial analytics, FP&A, or a comparable discipline.
• Hold a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Apply working knowledge of month-end close, journal entries, accruals, financial statements, and variance analysis.
• Build and maintain financial models and analyze large data sets with strong attention to accuracy and detail.
• Identify root causes behind financial results and translate complex data into clear recommendations.
• Explain financial performance effectively to both finance and non-finance audiences, including senior leaders.
• Manage multiple priorities and projects while meeting competing deadlines in a fast-paced monthly close environment.
• Demonstrate sound judgment and maintain appropriate confidentiality and controls when handling sensitive financial information.
• Build productive relationships across Finance, Accounting, operations, and other business functions.
• Take ownership of work, proactively investigate issues, and operate effectively with limited supervision.

Preferred Skills

• Bring experience in corporate FP&A, management reporting, or a shared-services finance environment.
• Demonstrate experience in healthcare, healthcare IT, pharmacy, pharmaceutical, logistics, or distribution environments.
• Use large ERP and enterprise planning systems, such as SAP, alongside advanced Excel and Power BI capabilities.
• Apply automation and AI tools, such as Copilot or Power Automate, to improve recurring finance processes.
• Demonstrate experience with driver-based forecasting, annual budgeting, and long-range planning.
• Hold an MBA, CPA, or other relevant advanced finance or accounting credential.
• Demonstrate strong ethical judgment, relationship building, communication, teamwork, organization, planning, and problem-solving skills.
• Thrive in a collaborative, hands-on environment that values initiative, continuous improvement, and accountability.

Location: Columbus, Ohio, Dallas/Ft. Worth. Texas

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Our Base Pay Range for this position

$78,800 - $131,300

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