Sr. Financial Analyst – Operations & Commercial
- Opportunity Overview:
- This is a hands-on, detail-oriented role embedded within our Clinical Operations and Commercial organizations. The right candidate brings sharp analytical instincts, a bias for action, and the ability to deliver reliable financial support at a pace that keeps up with a fast-moving commercial business.
- What you’ll do:
- Review and, where needed, build capacity models for Clinical Operations staff — ensuring headcount aligns with patient volume, operational targets, and cost objectives
- Update and maintain gross margin workbooks on a monthly basis, incorporating actuals with precision and producing variance commentary that drives decision-making
- Own headcount management reporting across Clinical Ops and Commercial teams, providing leadership with timely, accurate views of staffing costs vs. plan
- Analyze the cost impact of process and product improvements, translating operational changes into clear financial outcomes and recommendations
- Support budget and forecast preparation for both functions — partnering with Operations and Commercial leaders to build credible, data-backed plans
- Utilize Adaptive Insights (Workday Adaptive Planning) to manage planning cycles, scenario modeling, and financial reporting with efficiency and accuracy
- Apply AI-powered analytics tools to automate routine tasks, surface insights faster, and continuously elevate the quality of financial outputs
- This role rewards people who care deeply about the quality and timeliness of their work and who bring a collaborative, ownership-driven mindset to everything they do.
- Strong attention to detail — gross margin workbooks and capacity models are foundational to how we run the business, and getting them right matters
- Fast turnaround — leadership relies on timely analysis to make decisions; the expectation is responsive, not reactive
- Strong partnership instincts — you work closely with Operations and Commercial leaders and must earn their trust through consistent, high-quality support
- Availability and responsiveness during East Coast US hours (approximately 50% of your working week) to support leadership, month-end close, and planning cycles
- Continuous improvement orientation — if a process can be made smarter or faster, you find a way
- ISMS roles and responsibilities:
- Good knowledge of Information practices.
- Assist the manager in all the information security activities implementation and maintenance process.
- Ensuring the team and imparted with Competence related to Information security
- Responsible for implementation of security policies and procedures and report any issues to the Information Security Manager.
- Required Qualifications:
Must-haves
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA or CPA/ICAI a plus
- 3–6 years of FP&A, commercial finance, or operations finance experience; healthcare, life sciences, or services industry background preferred
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; hands-on experience with Adaptive Insights / Workday Adaptive Planning strongly preferred
- Comfortable working across both Google Suite (Sheets, Slides, Docs) and Microsoft Office products
- Exposure to AI-assisted analytics or business intelligence tools (Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent) a meaningful advantage
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain complex financial models (capacity models, gross margin workbooks, headcount trackers)
- Clear and confident communicator — able to present financial findings to non-finance stakeholders in a concise, actionable way
- Highly organized, self-directed, and comfortable managing multiple deliverables across functions and time zones simultaneously
- Ability to commute/relocate:
- Hyderabad, Telangana: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)
- Interview Process*:
Connect with Talent Acquisition
Meet with the Hiring Manager
Behavioral Interview(s)
Case Study
Interview with Senior Leadership *Subject to change
About Cohere Health:
Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs, optimizing the speed, cost, and quality of care. With an enterprise approach that streamlines payer-provider decision-making across the care continuum–including policy, prior authorization, payment accuracy, and more–the company improves collaboration and reduces burden, resulting in up to 8x ROI and 94% provider satisfaction.
With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we expanded our AI-native platform with a comprehensive Payment Integrity Suite that spans data mining, clinical and coding validation, authorization and claims reconciliation, and end-to-end payment integrity services across pre- and post-pay workflows. By connecting clinical and payment insights, our transparent, AI-powered solutions help health plans proactively improve payment accuracy, reduce waste and vendor dependency, strengthen provider relationships, and build smarter, more efficient payment integrity programs.
- Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry-wide recognition. We’ve been recognized on TIME’s World Top HealthTech Companies 2025 list, the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024.
- We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!
- Equal Opportunity Statement:
- Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. To us, it’s personal.