Manager, Advisory Services: Financial Transformation - Revenue Cycle

Manager, Advisory Services: Financial Transformation - Revenue Cycle

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 Manager works collaboratively within a team of highly qualified Advisory consultants to deliver revenue cycle performance improvement to healthcare systems. This role is dedicated to the Revenue Cycle service line, combining deep operational expertise across the patient financial journey (patient access, coding, billing, collections, denials management, and cash operations) with hands-on experience optimizing and implementing the EMR and technology platforms that power revenue cycle performance. This position is primarily responsible for performing billable work for clients and actively leading and managing a significant workstream or project.

The Manager oversees all aspects of the workstream or project assigned, including day-to-day management of activities and staff. They provide input, guidance, and quality assurance on team deliverables and presentations throughout each phase of a project, mentor staff working with them, and are responsible for building strong, referenceable client relationships.

The Manager also participates in internal Premier activities, including practice development and required/approved educational opportunities, and stays current on revenue cycle technologies and EMR platforms Premier offers to its clients.

Core Expectations

• Maintain utilization targets for client billable projects
• Create value through meaningful client relationship management, solution development, and implementation delivery
• Create a positive team environment by enriching staff skills and knowledge and fostering a productive, collaborative environment
• Create value for the Advisory practice through meaningful participation in activities that grow and enrich the practice, or the Revenue Cycle service line specifically

Role-Specific Expectations

Managers on the Revenue Cycle team bring operational expertise across the end-to-end revenue cycle, including patient access and registration, insurance verification and prior authorization, charge capture and coding, billing and claims submission, denials management and appeals, and cash posting and collections. Familiarity with EMR and revenue cycle technology is a valuable capability for this role. Additional expectations include:

• Lead the development and execution of revenue capture strategies to reduce leakage and accelerate cash flow across patient access, coding, billing, and denials
• Lead the identification and implementation of cost reduction strategies across revenue cycle operations, including staffing efficiency, process redesign, and vendor/technology spend
• Contribute to EMR and revenue cycle technology optimization efforts where relevant to the engagement
• Lead day-to-day project management for revenue cycle workstreams, including scope, timeline, budget, and risk management
• Serve as a trusted, client-facing leader, building strong relationships with client revenue cycle and finance leadership and communicating progress, findings, and recommendations with confidence and clarity
• Apply analytics capabilities, including data visualization, trend analysis, and performance benchmarking, to identify revenue cycle improvement opportunities and track engagement outcomes

Key Responsibilities

Client Delivery & Analysis (60%)

• Execute, direct, and oversee revenue cycle data analyses, including A/R, denials, coding/charge capture, and EMR workflow performance, 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 project deliverables
• Lead client interviews and apply analytical tools/methods to determine client needs across revenue cycle operations and technology; summarize findings coherently and draw insight from observations, interviews, and data
• Develop accurate conclusions and draft recommendations for team leadership review; develop final recommendations and solutions for client review, tied to revenue cycle operational and EMR/technology optimization outcomes
• Execute project plans in accordance with engagement statements of work and to client satisfaction
• Develop presentations and deliverables that communicate strategy, financial impact, and outcomes to client audiences
• Generate billable revenue by conducting assigned analyses, writing and preparing reports, and assisting clients in implementing recommended changes
• Guide and lead project management activities for assigned projects, including EMR/technology optimization and implementation workstreams
• Manage project budget, expenses, and profitability
• Manage and mentor staff assigned to their projects
• Participate in risk and issue identification and mitigation with the project leadership team

Practice Development (15%)

• Participate in practice development activities for the Advisory Services Practice overall, or specifically for the Revenue Cycle service line

Technology & Solutions (10%)

• Learn and stay current on Premier-based technologies and services, as well as leading EMR and revenue cycle platforms, relevant to revenue cycle engagements

Business Development (10%)

• 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 client and practice profitability

Training (5%)

• Complete all required training on an annual basis

Required Qualifications

Work Experience: 5 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 oversee/mentor others in the delivery and production of client deliverables
• Apply data-driven and analytics-based methods to identify revenue leakage, denials trends, and coding/documentation accuracy issues
• Translate revenue cycle operational needs into EMR and technology workflow design and configuration requirements
• Apply analytics capabilities, such as data visualization and trend analysis, to support revenue cycle recommendations and client deliverables
• Relate to clients and team members in an effective, collaborative manner
• Lead work groups to successful outcomes

Experience

• 5+ years of revenue cycle operational experience, spanning one or more of: patient access, coding, billing, denials management, cash operations, or revenue integrity
• Familiarity with EMR and revenue cycle technology optimization and implementation (e.g., Epic, Cerner, Meditech) is a plus, but not required
• Experience in health systems finance, operations, or strategic/decision support consulting
• Experience leading cross-functional teams
• Certification in a major EMR platform (e.g., Epic) is a plus

Education: Master's degree; RN license or other clinical professional license; PMP/Lean certification

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

Required Qualifications

Work Experience:

Years of Applicable Experience - 5 or more years

Education:

Bachelors (Required)

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 $113,000 - $188,000. 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 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 / Dis