Senior Analyst, Budgeting and Financial Planning

Senior Analyst, Budgeting and Financial Planning

• Facility
  * National Jewish Health
  - Main Campus
• Schedule
  - Shift
  - Hours Full Time
  - Day
  
  Shift: Monday
  - Friday

National Jewish Health is seeking a strategic and analytically minded Senior Analyst, Budgeting and Planning to support financial planning and decision-making across the organization. This role partners with leaders throughout the institution to develop budgets, evaluate performance and provide data-driven insights that help advance organizational goals and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops and analyzes departmental and organizational budgets
• Monitors financial performance and prepares variance analyses
• Creates financial and operational reports for leadership
• Partners with executives and managers on planning and business initiatives
• Presents data-driven recommendations to support decision-making

National Jewish Health is the nation’s leading respiratory hospital, recognized for excellence in patient care, research and education. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with senior leaders and key stakeholders, influencing strategic decisions that support the organization's mission, drive operational excellence and enable continued investment in groundbreaking research and patient care.

The Senior Financial Analyst position helps to ensure optimal financial and operating efficiency throughout the institution. This position develops budgets, analyzes operational data, and works with organizational leaders to achieve financial and operational goals.

• Reviews, analyzes, and edits budget submissions.
• Oversees departmental and programmatic spending to ensure expenditures remain within board-approved budgets.
• Assists with data collection, validation and annual reporting for the institution.
• Analyzes financial and operational data to provide recurring and ad-hoc reporting to organizational leadership.
• Presents financial and special project reports to internal and external audiences.
• Collaborates with faculty, executives, and managers to enhance existing operations and support new business ventures.
• Monitors budgets throughout the year and prepares variances analyses.
• Accountability: Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health.
• Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures.
• Attention to Detail: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time. Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
• Building Strategic Relationships: Identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals.
• Business Acumen: Using economic, financial, market, and industry data to understand and improve business results; using one’s understanding of major business functions, industry trends, and own organization’s position to contribute to effective business strategies and tactics.
• Problem Solving: Uses issue identification, data relation and comparison, pattern recognition and information gathering to create analyses and make recommendations.

None

Minimal travel (< 5%)

• Be available to work as scheduled and report to work on time.
• Be willing to accept supervision and work well with others.
• Be well groomed, appropriately for your role and wear  visibly.
• Be in compliance with all departmental and institutional policies, the Employee Handbook, Code of Conduct and…