Senior Financial Analyst - Commercial RAC

Ochsner Health System is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst - Commercial RAC to lead and coordinate financial analysis, accounting, forecasting, and reporting for the assigned area. In this onsite role in New Orleans, LA, you will partner with operational management, guide departmental staff and special project work, and help drive quality improvement through professional standards and data-driven QA activities.

What you’ll do

• Supervise the team’s special project workloads assigned by management, supporting internal and external consulting through financial reporting.
• Review monthly financial statements for fluctuations in variable expenses, identify trends, and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Create, generate, maintain, and monitor customer service surveys, employee morale surveys, performance management statistical reports, and global business services key indicators, including graphs, reports, and individual project management logs.
• Communicate findings and updates to team members and leadership to support accurate analysis, and participate in quality assurance activities.
• Support quality improvement by implementing professional standards, collecting and analyzing QA data, participating in interdisciplinary QA teams, and developing quality control measures using sample audits.
• Support departmental goals and participate in professional development activities.
• Perform other related duties as required, as work scope may be updated over time.

What you bring

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Math, Business Administration, or Computer Science (or related area).
• Experience: 3 years of healthcare finance or a related field, including two years with project-related, multi-task responsibilities with professional staff.
• Experience prioritizing, organizing, and coordinating multiple assignments under strict deadlines in a high-pressure setting.
• Ability to work independently.
• Computer skills and dexterity for data entry and retrieval of patient information, with proficiency in Windows-style applications and the keyboard.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present information clearly and professionally to varying audiences involved in the patient care process.
• Strong leadership skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) or another advanced degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Certification as a Public Accountant, or actively testing for certification.

Work environment and physical demands

• Medium Work requirements, including exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally and 10 to 25 pounds frequently, with the ability to lift, carry, or move objects as needed.
• Ability to stoop, bend, reach, and grab with arms and hands; manual dexterity required.
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods of time.
• Normal routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluid, or tissue, and incumbents are not called upon to perform or assist in emergency care or first aid.
• No occupational risk for exposure to communicable diseases.

Technologies: Windows-style applications, keyboard