2025 Kaufman Hall Analyst Program - Revenue & Operations Improvement

Analyst, Revenue & Operations Improvement
The Organization
We help society’s foundational institutions—healthcare and higher education—to achieve their full potential in service to others.
We are our clients’ trusted partners in ever-changing times. For nearly 40 years, Kaufman Hall has provided independent, objective insights grounded in sound data and analysis to help clients fulfill their missions, achieve their goals, and tackle their toughest problems.
Kaufman Hall provides world-class management consulting in Strategy & Business Transformation, Financial Planning & Data Analytics, Treasury & Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Revenue & Operations Improvement (previously Performance Improvement).
At Kaufman Hall, we believe that sustained success is never an accident. It is the result of sound decision making, based on data-driven analysis and disciplined thinking, and guided by the fundamental principles of corporate finance.
The Position
Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC, is seeking Analysts to join the Revenue and Operations Improvement team as part of the 2025 Kaufman Hall Analyst Program.
The Revenue and Operations Improvement practice is looking for professionals who are motivated by working in a collaborative team, producing high quality work, developing strong client relationships, and are committed to making a positive impact within the healthcare system.
We provide solutions for complex business problems faced by the world's most respected hospitals and health systems. Over the past five years, we have provided over $750M in value to our clients. Our work presents our professionals with exceptional experience and opportunities including but not limited to:

• Being part of a team advising healthcare executives
• Collaborating with highly experienced senior colleagues and leadership, every day
• Gaining deep and diverse financial, process/operational, and client relationship skills
• Engaging in projects involving large health systems, complex academic medical centers, and community-based hospitals
• Opportunities to work directly with clients to understand their unique needs and assist in implementing process and data-driven solutions that have significant impact on the financial health of our nation’s healthcare providers

The Revenue and Operations Improvement team helps hospitals and health systems identify, quantify, prioritize, and achieve their improvement goals in support of ongoing strategic initiatives. The team is equipped to help clients achieve sustainable improvements across a broad range of cost-related concerns, including:

• Managing labor cost and improving productivity
• Reducing non-labor cost including supply chain and contracted services
• Optimizing clinical service mix
• Rationalizing system-wide overhead cost
• Reducing inappropriate clinical practice variation
• Reducing losses/subsidies of owned and employed physician practices

Couple these experiences with the opportunity to build your own future with a dynamic firm, one highly focused on:

• Career Progression – Developing a career path that is based on your individual skills and aptitude
• Work/Life Balance – Focusing on you as the individual, rather than just an employee, to allow you to achieve your goals both personally and professionally

The Kaufman Hall Analyst Program Experience
As an Analyst for Kaufman Hall, you will work on complex financial analyses, model and tool development, and workflow processes, and hone your skills on executive dashboarding, leading meetings, and client relationship development.
We offer a hybrid work environment that allows a combination of onsite and in-office collaboration and teaming, and the flexibility to work remotely.
You will work both independently and as part of a team, support a wide variety of healthcare providers across the US and have the opportunity to solve complex problems and introduce creative solutions to our clients. You will have the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with our Managing Directors, Senior Staff, and Clinicians and be part of a team which promotes feedback and growth.
Analysts work on multiple teams across prestigious academic medical centers and large healthcare systems across the country. Teams are drawn from members of the firm with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Together, we look to partner with our clients to help them provide better care to their communities and achieve their mission.
Upon joining the Revenue and Operations Improvement practice, you will be part of an immersive onboarding experience, allowing you to gain technical skills, including Excel, SQL, and Tableau, and continue to refine and enhance your problem-solving, client relationship management, and project/program management skills.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will possess:

• An undergraduate degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Healthcare Management/Administration preferred. Engineering, Science, Public Policy, Operations or Information Systems with a minor in of the above, will also be considered
• A GPA of 3.2 or higher
• Strong financial, economic, analytical, and technical skills
• Proven track record of academic and extracurricular achievement
• Ability and interest to travel
• Applicants for employment must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Kaufman Hall (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status)

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required

Physical Requirements 

• Must be able to perform essential duties satisfactorily with reasonable accommodations
• Work is generally done sitting, talking, hearing and typing. Visual acuity to use a keyboard, prepare and analyze data and figures; transcribing, viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading

Work Environment 

• Travel Required: 50% or more
• The role is based in Chicago
• Work is regularly performed in a combination of office, home office, and client settings and routinely uses standard office equipment
• It may require the maintenance of a home office and proximity to an airport for work related travel

Kaufman Hall is committed to providing equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. We recruit, hire, train, promote, pay, and administer all employment actions without regard to actual and also perceived or assumed protected group status as defined by law of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives. Our policies and the law prohibit employment discrimination against any employee or applicant on the basis of any legally protected status.