Headway

Headway

Staff Data Scientist - Finance & Accounting

New York, NY · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$212k-$265kDetected 117 days ago
PythonSQLSparkData EngineeringData ScienceStakeholder ManagementFinancial AnalysisAccountingForecastingFP&ALeadershipCommunicationGAAPFinancial Reporting

About the role

  • Your mission is to provide a holistic understanding of our financial health and our revenue infrastructure.
  • Accurate and complete financial visibility is a core part of our operations and essential to Headway's growth.
  • You will define the right questions, uncover opportunities, and work cross-functionally to turn insights into measurable improvements in how we track and report financial performance.

Responsibilities

  • Drive insights and decisions through strategic analysis, reporting, and predictive modeling.
  • Design a metrics framework that connects our revenue infrastructure to financial outcomes, surfacing gaps in our data and reporting.
  • Define and drive the measurement strategy for collections loss.
  • Build the frameworks we use to understand where and why loss occurs, set targets for improvement, and identify the highest-ROI opportunities to reduce loss so they can be translated into cross-functional initiatives.
  • Build forecasts that inform staffing decisions and help us estimate how we're tracking against goals.
  • Partner cross-functionally to ensure our revenue systems provide the auditability and data traceability we need to be GAAP compliant and audit-ready.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in data science or analytics roles.
  • Working knowledge of core finance and accounting concepts such as how transaction-level data powers financial reporting (P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement).
  • Proven success partnering cross-functionally with Finance, Accounting, Product, Engineering, and Operations teams, and collaborating internally across Data Engineering and Data Science.
  • Proficiency in forecasting and predictive modeling techniques.

Nice to have

  • Experience with data modeling, ideally using dbt.

Skills

  • The admin work - credentialing, claims, payment reconciliation - is a nightmare.
  • Over 75,000 providers across all 50 states run their practice on our software, serving over 1 million patients.
  • Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better.
  • Experience adopting and championing AI-assisted tools to accelerate and automate data workflows.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Compensation

  • Compensation and Benefits:

Benefits

  • Equity compensation
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • Work-from-Home Stipend
  • Therapy Reimbursement
  • 16-week parental leave for eligible employees
  • Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
  • 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
  • In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for an equity grant, depending on the position and level.
  • We are committed to offering a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package, including robust health and wellness benefits, retirement savings, and meaningful ownership opportunities through equity.
  • Experience working with healthcare Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) is strongly preferred.

Company info

  • In doing so, you will provide a timely and trusted view into company performance that shapes our customer experience and supports Headway's path to public company readiness.
  • Help us uncover operational efficiencies that allow us to reinvest in building a better product and more effectively serve our customers.
  • Partner closely with senior and executive leadership and directly influence company strategy and growth.
  • What We're Looking For:
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