Strategic Finance Associate
The Role
Cedar is improving the healthcare financial experience. Our technology improves the overall experience of patient billing and engagement, enabling providers to thrive in a rapidly changing environment while helping patients understand the cost of their care.
As part of Cedar’s Strategic Finance team, you will play a meaningful role in driving a data-driven approach to our long-term business strategy and ensure execution on those goals. You will own Cedar’s annual corporate planning, financial model & forecasting, capital allocation and assist with evaluation growth opportunities and pricing strategy. You will also be a point of contact for our Board and management team on insights related to Cedar’s performance.
You are highly strategic, analytical and data focused in order to keep a pulse on our near-term performance and help Cedar execute on its long-term strategic vision. This is a critical cross-functional role, as such you will communicate and work with various teams within the organization, our investors and board.
Responsibilities
- Own and improve upon Cedar’s financial model that underpins FP&A’s core deliverables
- Design monthly and quarterly financial reports (variance analysis, forecast) and dashboards with impactful insights and critical metrics for Cedar’s leadership
- Partner with leaders across the entire organization to develop strategy, hiring plans and financial targets including budget vs. actual analyses and headcount reporting
- Understand and communicate financial results and trends to teams, and recommend appropriate course of action when results vary from forecast
- Collaborate on ad hoc analysis that drive business decisions across sales, product, capital allocation, expansions and pricing
- Improve predictability / forecasting capabilities of financials and business metrics
- Assist in preparing materials for the executive team, including board decks, investor materials and other executive updates
- Help drive equity and debt fundraising processes from end-to-end
- Implement systems and processes to scale planning & reporting across teams
Skills & Experience
- 2-4 years of experience, preferably in investment banking, high-growth corporate finance, private equity or venture capital.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to utilize data to determine decisions
- Outstanding financial modeling and forecasting skills
- Excellent proficiency in Excel and developing modelling skills and advanced querying
- Positive attitude with desire to work across multiple teams and comfortable wearing multiple hats
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field
- Excellent listening and communication skills (verbal, written, presentation)
- Passionate about Cedar’s mission of improving the healthcare finance experience
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience with SQL or other analytical tools (Looker etc.)
- Experience with ERP systems (NetSuite) and financial planning softwares (e.g. Adaptive Insights or Anaplan)
- Experience with a high-growth SaaS, payments or health tech company
- An understanding of the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) space
What do we offer to the ideal candidate?
- An opportunity to work on a platform that is scaling very rapidly, engaging with millions of patients per year and growing at a rate of 360% YoY as of January 2021
- A chance to join a high-growth company at an early stage!
- The ability to impact the growth of our company, we value all comments and suggestions!
- Transparency across teams and interaction with multiple departments
- Competitive pay, employer-paid healthcare, stock options
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Cedar will not hire any applicants for the Strategic Finance Associate roles who are present in the United States on an F-1 visa. Cedar is not an E-Verify employer and cannot employ individuals on a STEM OPT extension.