Financial Reporting Analyst

Ardent Health Services (AHS) is a national health care services company headquartered in Nashville, TN. Through its subsidiaries, Ardent owns and operates nearly 200 sites of care. Our subsidiaries own and operate hospitals and multispecialty physician practices in six states. Ardent includes 30 hospitals, 4,423 patient beds, 23,000 employees, and 1,700 employed physicians. Within the industry, we are noted for recognizing that every hospital is as unique as the community it serves. This in-depth understanding of how health care works at the local level is one of our great strengths.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Financial Reporting Analyst is a role designed to collaborate across accounting, decision support, and finance teams. This position will support all hospital-based service lines across the enterprise, ensuring financial performance monitoring, reporting accuracy, and data-driven decision-making.

• Assist in the preparation of budgets for hospital-based service lines in coordination with market finance and accounting teams.
• Monitor financial performance of facility contracts for internal Monthly Operating Review (MOR) reporting.
• Evaluate financial performance of current vendor partners against budget and prior-period trends, analyzing variances.
• Develop and maintain dashboards for on-call and medical directorship expenditures.
• Collaborate with internal decision support teams to create analytical data packages supporting RFP data needs across service lines.
• Build and maintain KPI dashboards for hospital-based service lines.
• Work with decision support and clinical IS teams to generate ad hoc reports aiding in operational staffing and site-of-service decision-making.
• Support internal executives on confidential due diligence to assess financial considerations related to new hospital-based service line ventures.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, or a related field. MBA preferred.
• 2+ years of experience in hospital accounting, decision support, or finance.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Familiarity with hospital-based physician service lines.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, including pivot tables, formulas, and analytical functions, preferred.
• Familiarity with EPIC Cogito, Power BI, or similar Business Intelligence (BI) platforms, preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work collaboratively across teams, preferred.