Financial Planning

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

We are looking for an Associate to join our Finance Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Center of Excellence team to supporting FPA-wide processes and projects, working closely with Business and Finance partners from revenue to expense to cash.

You: Let’s talk about you. You are a financial analyst with a growth mindset. You’re a fast learner who curates data, maintains financial models, fosters relationships, and delivers insightful & accurate reporting on time. You value relationships, seek to understand stakeholders and what they care about most and why. You are tenacious and strive for excellence in delivering what our FP&A team and our stakeholders need to manage the business.

The Team: Our FP&A team drives decisions at all levels, from Board of Directors and Executive Leadership Team strategy to manager-level tactical operations, by analyzing and reporting financial results and developing forecasts.

The FP&A Center of Excellence Transformation is a team of highly agile and visible team of trusted partners. We continuously create, improve, and partner to advance athena’s forecasting, analysis, and reporting capabilities.

Job Responsibilities
- Deliver forecasts, reports, and analysis on time with accuracy (monthly close, cost center/account variance, vendor planning, data updates & reconciliation, pixel perfect PowerPoint slides, etc)
- Own monthly revenue and/or expense analysis for accruals and reclasses; partner with the Accounting team to ensure the accuracy and completeness of financial data
- Identify and execute opportunities to optimize current reporting and develop better ways to assess business performance
- Maintain proper budget control, highlighting forecasted gaps
- Improve existing datasets, models, and reports to uncover new insights, simplify work, and/or improve user experience
- Support projects, including centralizing and standardizing work across the FPA team

**Qualifications**:

- 5+ years of progressive experience in Financial Planning & Analysis across the P&L
- Prior experience of working directly in a FP&A functional team is preferred
- Demonstrates the highest integrity with a track record of maintaining strict confidentiality
- Has an excellence mindset that delivers high quality results on time; has an obsession with getting the details right
- Develops trusting relationships across seniority levels and teams
- Communicates clearly with team and stakeholders
- Takes initiative; acts like an owner to identify and fix problems and build new capabilities
- Owns a track record of strong analytical problem-solving skills: manipulate data, build models, develop analysis, and communicate findings with a solid command of technology (Excel, Anaplan, PowerPoint, PowerBI, or similar tools)
- Able to work 2:30p-11:30pm IST
About athenahealth
Here’s our vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
What’s unique about our locations?
From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.
Our company culture might be our best feature.
We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.

Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work.

Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability.
Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.

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