$95,400–$208,300 Per Year
Analysis Skills, Benchmarking, Best Practices, Business Administration, Business Operations, Business Strategy, Clinical Data, Clinical Support, Communication Skills, Decision Support, Diagnosis-Related Group (DRG), Electronic Medical Records, Epic Systems, Finance, Financial Operations, Financial Planning, Health Informatics, Healthcare, Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS), Hospital, ICD-10, Industry/Trade Analysis, Insurance, Interpersonal Skills, Leadership, Medicaid, Medicare Reimbursement, Medicine, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Patient Care, Performance Management, Primary Care, Problem Solving Skills, Quality of Care, SQL (Structured Query Language), Tableau, Team Player, Urgent Care, World Health Organization (WHO), Writing Skills
General Information
Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA (Onsite or Remote Flexible)
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Posted Date: 03/24/2026
Salary Range: $95,400 - $208,300 Annually
Employment Type: 2 - Staff
Career Duration: Indefinite
Job ID: 29493
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Take on a high-visibility role in a world-class health organization. Help ensure the consistent delivery of the highest quality of care within Californias #1 hospital. Take your professional expertise to the next level. You can do all this and more at UCLA Health.
As a financial advisor and subject matter expert, you will:
- Analyze complex problems using patient-level financial and clinical data to support strategic hospital decision-making.
- Define and execute a wide variety of analytical projects.
- Anticipate client needs, establish project scope, identify data sources, translate data into polished deliverables, formulate business strategies, and present recommendations to executives.
- Maintain a high degree of knowledge in healthcare finance and operations, including staying current on evolving industry trends.
- Interface with executive and physician leadership.
- Collaborate with professional and technical teams to pinpoint issues, achieve objectives, and improve performance.
- Audit multiple systems and data for reasonableness and investigate variances.
- Benchmark business operations relative to established best practices and internal business objectives.
- Apply innovative problem-solving in a dynamic and complex environment.
Salary Range: $95,400 to $208,300 annually.
Job Qualifications
We are seeking a self-motivated, creative, goal-driven professional with:
- Related bachelors degree (required).
- MBA or MPH (preferred).
- Five or more years of experience in hospital insurance or related healthcare finance (preferred).
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Tableau (highly desired).
- Knowledge of hospital decision support and EMR systems (EPSi, Strata, and Epic) (preferred).
- Understanding of healthcare coding systems (ICD-10-CM, PCS, UB-04, HCPCS, MS-DRG, CPT, etc.).
- Familiarity with Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid reimbursement.
- Ability to write SQL and other coding languages (a plus).
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Ability to translate clinical needs into financial terms and explain results to a non-financial audience.
- Ability to anticipate and respond to rapid changes and industry shifts.
- Strong commitment to high-quality deliverables, professional collaboration, and skill development.
UCLA Health is a world-renowned health system with four award-winning hospitals and dozens of primary care practices, specialty practices, urgent care centers, and other ancillary locations throughout metro Los Angeles, as well as the David Geffen School of Medicine. Through the efforts of our outstanding people, we have become Los Angeles trusted provider of exceptional, compassionate patient care. If youre looking to experience greater challenge and fulfillment in your career, you can at UCLA Health.
As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.