Senior Consultant, Advisory Services: Financial Transformation

Senior Consultant, Advisory Services: Financial Transformation

What you will be doing:

The Senior Consultant works collaboratively within a team of highly qualified Advisory consultants to deliver performance improvement to healthcare syste

​Required Qualifications

Work Experience:

Years of Applicable Experience - 4 or more years

Education:

Bachelors (Required)

*General travel requirements between 25-75% largely dependent on client engagement

About the Practice

Premier's Financial Transformation Advisory Practice reimagines the entire patient financial journey, from intake to invoice, helping health systems achieve sustainable margin improvement through an integrated, enterprise-wide approach. Rather than pursuing isolated fixes, our team works end-to-end across three interconnected pillars that drive lasting financial performance:

• Revenue Cycle: Reducing revenue leakage, accelerating cash flow, and elevating the patient financial experience through transparent, consumer-friendly billing and tech-enabled visibility into performance.
• Managed Care: Strengthening payer accountability, contracting, and reimbursement integrity, and evaluating payer relationships through benchmarking and strategic insight so clients can negotiate from a position of strength.
• Clinical Integrity: Improving clinical documentation accuracy to strengthen both care quality and reimbursement integrity, bridging the gap between clinical excellence and financial performance.

Because every part of the care journey, from clinical documentation to billing and payer strategy, is interconnected, our consultants combine trusted advisory relationships with advanced analytics, automation, and AI to help clients reduce friction, uncover hidden opportunities, and strengthen accountability across the enterprise. National benchmarks and strategic collaboratives give our teams, and our clients, insight no single organization could access alone. This approach has driven measurable results for health systems nationwide, including hundreds of millions of dollars in combined financial and clinical transformation savings and tens of millions in revenue gains from optimized payer strategy and denial management. Our practice was recognized with Modern Healthcare's Best in Business award in the Consultants: Healthcare Management category in both 2024 and 2025.

What You'll Be Doing

The Senior Consultant works collaboratively within a team of highly qualified Advisory consultants to deliver financial performance improvement to healthcare systems, with a focus on revenue cycle, managed care, and clinical integrity engagements. This position is primarily responsible for performing billable work for clients and actively leading and participating in engagement workstreams.

The Senior Consultant participates in all aspects of an engagement, including identifying issues, forming hypotheses, planning and conducting interviews, planning and overseeing analytics, developing recommendations and solutions, synthesizing information into cohesive presentations, and helping implement change. They work in a team environment, providing input and support to team deliverables and presentations throughout each phase of a project, and support day to day workstream management, including project management activities and economics.

The Senior Consultant also participates in internal Premier activities, including practice development and required/approved educational opportunities, and stays current on the technologies Premier offers clients across revenue cycle, managed care, and clinical integrity solution areas.

Core Expectations

• Maintain utilization targets for client billable projects
• Create value through meaningful client interactions, data analytics and insights, and team participation on client projects
• Create value for the Advisory practice through meaningful participation in activities that grow and enrich the practice, or the Revenue Cycle, Managed Care, and Clinical Integrity service lines specifically

Analytics Focused Roles

Senior Consultants on the Analytics team bring expertise in Premier and PINC AI databases and in connecting existing and new datasets to create enriched content used for revenue cycle, managed care, and clinical integrity analytics. This role interacts with clients, Premier internal product teams, and Advisory counterparts across all service lines, and is expected to build strong working relationships within the Premier/client team. They lead production and quality assurance of client analytics deliverables and provide data-driven insights and solutions. Additional responsibilities include:

• Build and maintain dynamic and interactive data models based on Premier and client needs, including revenue cycle performance, payer reimbursement, and clinical documentation/coding datasets
• Lead process standardization efforts
• Lead efforts to standardize and automate client deliverables and internal tools
• Troubleshoot Tableau workbooks, SQL scripts, Excel analyses, and other analytics tools
• Apply AI-based tools and techniques to accelerate data analysis, automate recurring deliverables, and surface insights across revenue cycle, managed care, and clinical integrity datasets

Key Responsibilities

Client Delivery & Analysis (60%)

• Obtain data, execute, direct, and oversee analyses, initiate interpretations and conclusions, and prepare verbal and graphic presentations using methods that are professionally sound, efficient, and conform to standards. Perform quality assurance on assigned workstream deliverables
• Participate in client interviews and apply analytical tools/methods to help determine client needs; summarize findings coherently and draw insight from observations, interviews, and data analyses
• Develop accurate conclusions from findings; draft recommendations and potential solutions related to revenue cycle, managed care, or clinical integrity outcomes for team leadership review
• Execute project plans in accordance with engagement statements of work and to client satisfaction
• Develop presentations and deliverables that communicate strategy and outcomes to client audiences
• Generate billable revenue by conducting assigned analyses, writing and preparing reports, and assisting clients in implementing recommended changes
• Participate in project management activities as assigned regarding their workstream
• Manage the budget and expenses for their assigned workstream
• Participate in risk and issue identification and mitigation with the project leadership team

Practice Development (20%)

• Participate in practice development activities for the Advisory Services Practice overall, or specifically for the Revenue Cycle, Managed Care, or Clinical Integrity service lines

Technology & Solutions (10%)

• Learn and stay current on Premier-based technologies and services relevant to revenue cycle, managed care, and clinical integrity engagements

Business Development (5%)

• Actively listen for market opportunities on current engagements and through collaborative networks; communicate potential leads to managers
• Contribute to sales presentation deliverables using prescribed formats and technology; proactively seek opportunities to participate
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability

Training (5%)

• Complete all required training on an annual basis

Required Qualifications

Work Experience: 4 or more years of applicable experience

Education: Bachelor's degree (required)

Preferred Qualifications

Skills:

• Coordinate and deliver effective verbal and written presentations to client audiences communicating project outcomes, recommendations, and strategy
• Conduct analyses and support/mentor others in the delivery and production of client deliverables
• Apply data-driven and analytics-based methods to identify revenue leakage, payer performance gaps, or documentation/coding accuracy issues
• Relate to clients and team members in an effective, collaborative manner
• Lead work groups to successful outcomes

Analytics Focused Roles:

• Lean Process Improvement; Six Sigma Green/Black Belt

Experience:

• Experience in one or more of the following: revenue cycle performance improvement (net revenue optimization, denials management, cash acceleration); managed care/payer strategy (contract modeling, reimbursement analytics, payer negotiations); or clinical integrity (clinical documentation improvement, coding accuracy, utilization review)
• Experience in health systems finance, operations, or strategic/decision support consulting

Analytics Focused Roles:

• Experience analyzing complex healthcare data sets, including revenue cycle, payer, or clinical documentation data, and developing visualizations and presentations to support data-driven recommendations
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative data validation and analysis
• Experience in new methodology development and strategic problem-solving
• Experience using AI-based tools (e.g., generative AI, machine learning models, or automation platforms) to support data analysis, deliverable development, or process automation

Education: Bachelor's degree; Master's degree preferred

Additional Job Requirements

• Remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time
• Adapt and change priorities quickly; meet deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Operate computer programs and software
• Communicate effectively with audiences in person and in electronic formats
• Day-to-day contact with others (co-workers and/or the public)
• Make independent decisions
• Work collaboratively in close quarters with peers, with varying interruptions

Additional Job Requirements:

• Remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time 

• Be adaptive and change priorities quickly; meet deadlines 

• Attention to detail 

• Operate computer programs and software 

• Ability to communicate effectively with audiences in person and in electronic formats.   

• Day-to-day contact with others (co-workers and/or the public) 

• Making independent decisions 

• Ability to work in a collaborative business environment in close quarters with peers and varying interruptions 

Working Conditions: Remote

Travel Requirements: Travel 61-80% within the US

Physical Demands: Sedentary: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves remaining stationary most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if movement is required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Premier’s compensation philosophy is to ensure that compensation is reasonable, equitable, and competitive in order to attract and retain talented and highly skilled employees. Premier’s internal salary range for this role is $90,000 - $150,000. Final salary is dependent upon several market factors including, but not limited to, departmental budgets, internal equity, education, unique skills/experience, and geographic location. Premier utilizes a wide-range salary structure to allow base salary flexibility within our ranges.

Qualified full-time and part-time employees also receive access to the following benefits:

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance

• 401k retirement program

• Paid time off

• Participation in Premier’s employee incentive plans

• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities

Premier at a glance:

• Granted World's Most Ethical Companies, Ethisphere, 2008-2026

• Named U.S. News & World Report, Best Companies to Work For (2023, 2024, 2025)

• Accredited by Forbes: America’s Best Management Consulting Firms 2024-2025

• Given Modern Healthcare Best in Business Awards: Consultants- Healthcare Management

• Awarded Cigna Workforce Designation Gold Level Recipient (2016,2017,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2025)

For a listing of all of our awards, please visit the Awards and Recognition section on our company website.

Employees receive:

• Perks and discounts

• Access to on-site and online exercise classes

Premier is looking for smart, agile individuals like you to help us transform the healthcare industry. Here you will find critical thinkers who have the freedom to make an impact. Colleagues who share your thirst to learn more and do things better. Teammates committed to improving the health of a nation. See why incredible challenges require incredible people.
 

Premier is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful discrimination because of their age, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, pregnancy status, genetic information, status as a victim of domestic violence, covered military or protected veteran status (e.g., status as a Vietnam Era veteran, disabled veteran, special disabled veteran, Armed Forces Serviced Medal veteran, recently separated veteran, or other protected veteran) disability, or any other applicable federal, state or local protected class, trait or status or that of persons with whom an applicant associates. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. In addition, as a federal contractor, Premier complies with government regulations, including affirmative action responsibilities, where they apply.  EEO / AA / Disabled / Protected Veteran Employer.

Premier also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with a disability or those who have a sincerely held religious belief. If you need assistance in the application process, please reply to [email protected] or contact Premier Recruiting at 704.357.0022.

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