Senior Consultant Strategic Decision Support- Cost Accounting
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Country: United States
Category: Accounting & Finance
Workplace Location: Remote
Employment Type: Direct Hire/Perm
Posted Date: January 20, 2026
Job ID: 643008
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Consultant Strategic Decision Support- Cost Accounting
Location: Remote - must live in PA, MD, NJ, and DE
Schedule: Full-time, 40 hours/week
Pay Range: $100,000 - 115,000
Qualifications
- Must have experience in Healthcare cost accounting.
- Bachelor of Arts or Science in Business, Statistics or a related field (Required)
- And 3+ years experience working with large, complex datasets, conducting data analyses, and generating insights. Proven track record of leading and executing moderately complex projects with minimal oversight (Required)
- Background Check, COVID-19 Vaccine, Drug Screen, Educational Verification, Employment Verification, Hep B, I-9/E-Verify, Influenza Vaccine, National Sex Offender and Predator Register Search, OFAC Sanction, OIG, PA Medicheck, PATCH, References, Resume, SAM Sanction, TdaP Vaccine/Record, Varicella
Job Description
Consultation: Perceived as credible and integral to work by senior clients and leaders. Influences client thinking and motivates them to take action as appropriate. Tailors approach to client interactions based on understanding of organizational issues and individual client sensitivities. Provides insights to the team on opportunities to positively influence client buy-in.
Insight Generation Provides insight into the diagnosis of the clients overall problem by leading the development and testing of hypotheses. Demonstrates understanding of the problem-solving approach. Defines the client issues and generates potential solutions.
Problem Solving: Develops analytical approach for entire workstream. Creates flexible, user friendly analytic models. Is innovative in using analytic findings and data to advance the client's thinking and highlighting challenges and solutions.
Results: Owns end to end workstream recognizing iterative nature of work and client engagement goals. Anticipates and resolves issues, helping team meet deadlines and maintain project schedule.
Teamwork: Proactively helps create and support an energizing team environment. Actively seeks a diverse set of perspectives to enhance project outcomes. Enables colleagues from diverse backgrounds to effectively apply and enhance their competencies to benefit of teams and clients. Mentors junior members of the team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation within the team.
Communication: Creates clear, concise and client ready slides and documents with clear storylines that demonstrate understanding of key questions to answer and specific client situation. Builds credibility and trust by asking thoughtful questions, actively listening and demonstrating empathy. When questioned, can constructively discuss issues as well as provide facts.
Quality Assurance: Work product reflects a consistent focus on accuracy, reliability and completeness. Analysis is completed on time and is not missing important assumptions or elements.
Continuous Improvement: Consistently gives frequent feedback including upward feedback, in interactions with colleagues and clients. Actively seeks and applies feedback from others. Supports and advances self-knowledge via new tools, techniques and methodologies. Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and professional development. Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in finance. Look for opportunities to optimize the finance team’s processes and workflows.
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