WMG Finance Business Partner
Wellstar Health System
Summary
The Finance Business Partner serves as a strategic financial advisor to operational, clinical, and executive leadership. This role partners with service line leaders, practice managers, physician leaders, and department directors to provide financial analysis, budgeting support, operational insight, and performance improvement recommendations. The Finance Business Partner helps ensure financial sustainability while supporting organizational goals related to quality, growth, access, and patient care.
Job description
Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning processes.
- Develop financial models to support strategic initiatives and operational decisions.
- Prepare monthly financial reports and performance dashboards.
- Analyze variances between actual, budget, and forecasted results.
- Identify risks and opportunities impacting financial performance.
Business Partnership
- Serve as the primary finance liaison for assigned departments, clinics, service lines, or business units.
- Collaborate with operational and clinical leaders to evaluate financial performance and resource utilization.
- Translate complex financial data into actionable recommendations.
- Support leadership in achieving operational, productivity, and financial objectives.
Operational Performance Improvement
- Analyze staffing, labor productivity, volumes, reimbursement, and expense trends.
- Partner with leaders to identify cost reduction and revenue enhancement opportunities.
- Support development of corrective action plans to address unfavorable variances.
- Monitor performance against key performance indicators (KPIs).
Strategic & Decision Support
- Prepare business cases for new programs, services, providers, capital investments, and facility expansions.
- Conduct ROI, breakeven, and profitability analyses.
- Evaluate physician recruitment and compensation financial impacts.
- Support mergers, acquisitions, and strategic growth initiatives as needed.
Reporting & Analytics
- Develop and maintain financial dashboards and management reports.
- Conduct trend analysis, bridge analysis, and scenario modeling.
- Ensure integrity and accuracy of financial data.
- Present findings and recommendations to senior leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
- Minimum 5 years progressive finance FP&A, healthcare finance, or business analysis experience
- Excel and spreadsheet analysis skills
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills
- Knowledge of healthcare reimbursement and provider productivity metrics
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong understanding of budgets, forecasting, and management reporting
Company overview
Wellstar Health System is one of Georgia's largest and most comprehensive integrated healthcare systems, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. As a non-profit health system, Wellstar operates with a mission to enhance the health and well-being of every person it serves through its PeopleCare approach. The system employs approximately 29,469 to 33,000 team members across multiple hospitals, health parks, medical offices, outpatient centers, pediatric centers, nursing facilities, and hospice and home care services. Wellstar is nationally recognized for operating Georgia's largest integrated trauma network and features the second-largest Emergency Department in the United States. The organization provides more than $1 billion annually in charity care and community programs, demonstrating its commitment to community health. Wellstar has earned numerous accolades including recognition on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, Best Workplaces in Health Care, and PEOPLE Companies that Care lists. The system embraces innovation through its venture firm Catalyst by Wellstar, which nurtures early-stage healthcare companies, and maintains academic partnerships with institutions like the Medical College of Georgia for caregiver training. With specialties spanning cardiovascular care, oncology, women's health, pediatrics, musculoskeletal services, and numerous other medical disciplines, Wellstar delivers comprehensive healthcare across all stages of life.