About Avalon Healthcare Solutions:

Avalon Healthcare Solutions is the world's first and only Lab Insights company, bringing together our proven Lab Benefit Management solutions, lab science expertise, digitized lab values, and proprietary analytics to help healthcare insurers proactively inform appropriate care, reduce costs, and improve clinical outcomes. Working with health plans nationwide, the company covers over 44+ million lives and delivers 10-20% proven outpatient lab benefit savings. Avalon is pioneering a new era of value-driven care with its Lab Insights Program that captures, digitizes, and analyzes lab results in real-time to provide actionable insights for earlier disease detection, ensuring appropriate treatment protocols and driving down overall costs. 

Avalon is a portfolio company of Francisco Partners, a global private equity firm that specializes in investments in technology and technology-enabled service companies. Avalon is a high growth company where every associate has an opportunity to make a difference. 

Avalon has years of expertise in managing lab benefits and now is leveraging digitized lab results to drive quality clinical outcomes and proven savings.  When you look at how we bring this to life, we offer Lab Insights solutions that work together to arm you with critical lab-driven insights to accelerate your value-driven care success.  This is the first-of-its-kind suite of solutions to help you achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per-member cost of healthcare.

You will be part of a team that shapes a new market and business. Most importantly, you will help Avalon to achieve its mission and improve clinical outcomes and health care affordability for the people we serve.

For more information about Avalon, please visit www.avalonhcs.com.

About the Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis position:

The Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) will serve as a key member of the financial leadership team and as a key interface between finance, senior operational management, and the corporate management team. This position reports directly to the Associate Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) to ensure the alignment of corporate goals and Avalon's financial plan. 

The Manager, FP&A drives value-added business analysis by transforming complex, multifaceted data into strategic financial insights. This role is responsible for defining and reporting meaningful financial and operational metrics that enable informed and accurate business decisions.  The Manager, FP&A will also lead the development of sophisticated financial models enabling the team to deliver more automated and insightful value-added analysis into key business drivers across the company, including consolidated and customer/product-level analyses. 

This position is eligible for remote work, but travel to Avalon's corporate office located in Tampa, Florida may be requested during the assignment. 

Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis  Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Financial Planning & Forecasting:

• Develop and manage the company's annual budget and quarterly forecast cycles, including coordination, consolidation and delivery of automated budget and forecast reporting using Hyperion Essbase Planning and Budgeted Cloud Systems (PBCS).   
• This role is responsible for setting timelines and acting as project manager for the company, ensuring all budgets are accurate, comprehensive, and completed on time. 
• Maintain and enhance the company's long-range strategic planning models, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and evolving market conditions.
• Support development of productivity standards to justify workforce capacity and staffing requirements.

Reporting & Analytics:

• Prepare advanced excel based monthly reporting packages that include full financial statements, comprehensive KPI and operational dashboard reporting.
• Quarterly analysis of key business trends, actual-versus-budget and forecast-versus-budget variances, and comprehensive executive level explanations that enable timely decisions to be made. 
• Additional quarterly reporting of the same caliber required for the Board of Directors and PE ownership.

Business Partnership & Strategic Support:

• Provide detailed advanced financial modeling, financial analysis, and valuation support for new product development, operational and strategic initiatives, prospective new sales opportunities, and other ad-hoc financial projects.
• Create strong working relationships and function as a trusted business partner with stakeholders across the organization.
• Must be able and willing to perform individual contributor work as well as successfully work with a team of analysts.

Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in finance or closely related field required.
• 5 years of relevant professional experience (including ownership of budgeting, forecasting and reporting process). Preferably with FP&A and private equity portfolio company experience.
• Advanced Excel skills and working experience with Pivot Tables, Pivot Reporting / Charting, Advanced Formulas, Data Tables, Conditional Formatting, What-If Analysis, etc. 
• Ability to integrate Excel with other business intelligence tools (Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI) and optimizing Excel reporting.
• Demonstrates ability to provide strategic-level thought to drive improvement and lead projects to enhance reporting automation and analytical infrastructure.
• Proven ability to drive business results by empowering people and collaborating. Must be a self-starter prepared to roll up his/her sleeves to take on any number of tasks required by a growing company.
• Demonstrates an executive presence, very strong interpersonal communication skills, and well-honed influencing skills. 
• Viewed as a key stakeholder and thought leader in driving, defining, and executing the company's financial planning strategy and can contribute to delivering value to client groups across the enterprise.
• Be innately curious and not satisfied with surface answers

Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis  Preferred Qualifications: 

• Prior experience with Hyperion Essbase budgeting and planning tools is strongly preferred.
• Health care, health plan, and/or laboratory experience is helpful.
• Private equity backed portfolio company experience is helpful.
• Master's degree in business, finance, or accounting is helpful.