Senior Budget and Financial Planning Analyst

Senior Budget and Financial Planning Analyst

Job Category
:
Professional

Requisition Number
: SENIO
004519

• Posted :
  September 2, 2026
• Full-Time
• On-site

Showing 1 location

Reno, NV, USA

Bargaining Unit: Non Represented - Professional

Rate of Pay: $116,771 annually + DOE

The Senior Budget and FP&A Analyst serves as an advanced individual contributor supporting the health system’s budgeting, financial planning and analysis, forecasting, cost accounting, productivity reporting, and decision-support functions. This role leads complex analyses, develops advanced financial models, partners independently with operational and finance leaders, and translates financial, workforce, and operational data into actionable insights. The position provides analytical leadership and technical guidance but does not carry formal supervisory responsibility.

Budgeting / Financial Planning & Analysis

Lead significant portions of the annual operating, capital, and workforce budget processes, including development of departmental assumptions, financial schedules, and supporting analyses.

• Develop forecasts, long-range projections, scenario models, and advanced financial analyses to support organizational planning.
• Lead monthly financial variance analysis and identify key operational and financial performance drivers.
• Support monthly operating reviews by preparing financial insights, identifying trends, and recommending areas for follow-up.
• Evaluate financial risks, performance trends, and opportunities for corrective action.
• Support development and monitoring of financial and operational performance indicators.
• Analyze volume assumptions, inflationary pressures, reimbursement impacts, staffing costs, and other financial drivers.

Perform complex cost-accounting, allocation, service-line profitability, contribution-margin, and departmental profitability analyses.

• Develop advanced financial models for strategic initiatives, staffing proposals, capital requests, new services, program expansions, and operational changes.
• Lead business-case development, return-on-investment analysis, sensitivity analysis, break-even analysis, and financial feasibility reviews.
• Evaluate service line, physician practice, ambulatory, and departmental financial performance to support strategic decision-making.
• Interpret complex financial, statistical, and operational data and translate findings into actionable recommendations.

Analyze labor productivity, staffing models, workforce trends, overtime, contract labor, volume changes, and related financial impacts.

Support development and monitoring of productivity targets, staffing standards, workforce performance metrics, and labor benchmarks.

• Identify labor expense drivers and opportunities to improve labor utilization and workforce efficiency.
• Develop workforce planning models to support organizational growth, staffing proposals, productivity initiatives, and labor optimization.
• Partner with operational leaders to evaluate staffing plans and connect workforce decisions to financial outcomes.

Partner directly with department, service-line, Finance, and operational leaders to evaluate financial performance and develop corrective-action plans.

Serve as a financial resource for leaders during budget development, monthly operating reviews, and strategic planning discussions.

• Partner with Business Intelligence and Data Engineering to connect operational, clinical, workforce, and financial information.
• Reconcile complex financial, operational, productivity, and statistical data across source systems and resolve data-quality or reporting issues.
• Prepare recurring and ad hoc…