Position Summary

The Strategic Finance Associate is a high-leverage extension of the Vice President and Growth and Development leadership team. The role independently owns analytical and execution workstreams that would otherwise sit with senior leadership, from defining the question and building the analysis through recommendation, executive decision, and follow-through. The analyst supports acquisitions, affiliations, payer and value-based care opportunities, strategic partnerships, and market development across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

Independently own financial and strategic analyses from initial question through a clear recommendation, anticipating senior leadership's questions before review.
Build models for acquisitions, affiliations, payer and value-based care arrangements, provider compensation, strategic partnerships, and market-specific growth initiatives.
Create and maintain market deep dives and analyses that support strategic planning, growth initiatives, and decision-making across the organization.
Lead analytical diligence, coordinate data requests and cross-functional inputs, identify missing information, and maintain a clear view of risks, open decisions, and next steps.
Prepare concise executive, sponsor, and board materials that connect strategy, operating requirements, economics, risks, and the requested decision.
Support transaction and contract structuring by quantifying tradeoffs, testing alternatives, and translating legal or commercial terms into financial impact.
Project-manage priority growth initiatives across Finance, Legal, Managed Care, Clinical, Analytics, Operations, and Technology, driving work to resolution without waiting for detailed direction.
Maintain enterprise pipeline and forecast reporting, including stage, probability, timing, providers and lives, investment requirements, and expected financial contribution.
Track initiatives through closing, onboarding, integration, and activation. Compare results with the approved case, explain variances, and recommend corrective action.

Performance Measures

Underwriting accuracy, model reconciliation, traceable assumptions, and sound recommendations.
Speed, completeness, and independence of executive decision support.
Early identification of material economic, operating, timing, and data risks.
Reliable pipeline reporting and value-realization tracking.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related analytical field.
Two to four years of investment banking, private equity, corporate development, strategic finance, transaction advisory, consulting, or comparable experience.
Strong financial modeling skills, including operating cases, sensitivity analysis, return analysis, and assumption documentation.
Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills with the ability to produce accurate analysis and concise executive materials.
Exceptional judgment, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple live workstreams with limited oversight.
Healthcare services, physician practice, payer economics, or value-based care experience strongly preferred.

Strategic Finance Associate