Senior Investor Relations Analyst

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Job Summary and Qualifications

The Senior Investor Relations Analyst plays a key analytical and execution role in supporting the company's capital markets strategy, investor engagement, earnings preparation, and executive decision-making. The role develops financial models, valuation analyses, market intelligence, investor targeting insights, disclosure analytics, and recurring IR tools that strengthen the company's investor narrative and improve the effectiveness of IR activities. This position partners closely with Investor Relations leadership, Finance, Legal, Communications, Treasury, Corporate Development, and senior executives, and under certain circumstances, engages directly with institutional investors and sell-side analysts as appropriate. The role also drives operating leverage through automation, data infrastructure, workflow redesign, and scalable analytical processes.

Major Responsibility:

Capital Markets Strategy & Executive Decision Support

• Support IR leadership and senior executives through valuation, capital allocation, shareholder return, investor perception, peer benchmarking, and market intelligence analysis.

• Translate financial, market, investor, policy, and peer intelligence into concise executive-ready analysis that informs IR strategy, earnings preparation, investor messaging, and capital markets decisions.

Financial Modeling, Valuation & Consensus Analytics

• Build and maintain financial models, DCF analyses, service-line benchmarking tools, guidance trackers, sell-side model diagnostics, and scenario analyses to support earnings readiness and investor messaging. Analyze sell-side estimates, valuation ranges, price targets, consensus movement, guidance assumptions, and investor modeling conventions to identify key trends, variances, risks, and opportunities.

• Conduct capital allocation, shareholder return, peer performance, and valuation analyses, including Bull/Base/Bear case assessments and other recurring or ad hoc financial analyses.

Earnings Preparation & Investor Communications

• Play a central role in quarterly earnings preparation, including initial drafting and analytical support for press releases, CEO/CFO prepared remarks, Q&A materials, investor decks, talking points, and executive briefing materials.

• Support development of investor-facing materials in partnership with IR leadership, Legal, Communications, Finance, and executive stakeholders, ensuring messaging is accurate, consistent with prior public disclosures, and appropriately sourced.

• Research previous company and peer disclosures, transcripts, policy commentary, and investor questions to inform earnings readiness and investor messaging.

Investor Targeting, Engagement & Market Intelligence

• Develop investor targeting and engagement strategies for priority shareholders, including analysis of investor type, suitability, ownership trends, engagement history, geography, and corporate access objectives.

• Facilitate and support IR leadership engagement with institutional investors and sell-side analysts across earnings, conferences, roadshows, bus tours, HQ visits, and inbound discussions, coordinating with internal stakeholders as needed.

• Synthesize sell-side research, investor feedback, policy analysis, third-party intelligence, and market activity into executive briefs that identify perception gaps, emerging risks, and shifts in consensus expectations.

Disclosure, Peer & Policy Analysis

• Improve disclosure analytics and non-GAAP consistency by analyzing investor modeling conventions, derived metrics, potential areas of investor confusion, and peer disclosure practices.

• Monitor peer transcripts, press releases, public studies, health policy developments, and sector intelligence; flag notable commentary and implications for IR leadership.

• Analyze investor conclusions on seasonality, magnitude, and direction of public disclosures and back-test assumptions from investor inbounds as needed.

IR Analytics, Infrastructure & Automation

• Lead development and use of IR analytics, dashboards, CRM insights, website analytics, recurring data packages, and data infrastructure to support investor targeting, engagement strategy, executive reporting, and capital markets analysis.

• Create operating leverage through automation and workflow redesign, including data pipelines, standardized templates, reusable exhibits, source-of-truth tools, and recurring outputs that improve quality, turnaround time, and control.

• Maintain or oversee documentation of data sources, refresh cadence, definitions, formulas, and quality-control checks to ensure recurring IR analytics are consistent, auditable, and reliable.

Cross-Functional Strategic Support

• Partner with Financial Reporting, Treasury, Legal, Communications, Corporate Development, and other teams on strategic analyses, earnings readiness, disclosure support, policy analysis, and select transaction or diligence-related projects.

• Support select cross-functional strategic projects, including early-stage M&A evaluation, through target valuation, sector research, diligence support, and executive-ready analysis.

IR Operations & Event Execution Support

• Support execution of quarterly earnings calls, investor conferences, roadshows, bus tours, HQ visits, virtual events, and post earnings outreach, including coordination, tracking, CRM documentation, and post-event analysis.

• Support select IR operations as needed, including investor and analyst scheduling, international mailbox monitoring, website content updates, vendor coordination, expense processing, and other administrative tasks required to execute IR activities.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related quantitative field required.

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience in Investor Relations, finance, equity research, corporate finance, investment banking, capital markets, healthcare services, or a related analytical field.

• 2+ years of Investor Relations or capital markets exposure preferred.

• Working knowledge of SEC guidelines, public company disclosure practices, Regulation FD, and investor communications processes preferred.

• Experience with financial modeling, valuation, market intelligence, data analysis, CRM systems, website analytics, and data visualization tools preferred.

• Healthcare services, managed care, provider sector, or public company finance experience preferred.

• Occasional Travel: The job may require travel from time to time, but not on a regular basis

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors:

• Strong financial modeling, valuation, benchmarking, and analytical problem-solving skills. Ability to synthesize complex financial, market, policy, investor, and peer intelligence into concise, executive-ready insights.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to support prepared investor-facing materials, executive talking points, earnings documents, and briefing materials.

• Sound judgment and attention to detail when working with public disclosures, investor materials, confidential information, and time-sensitive deliverables.

• Ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively with senior leaders, investors, analysts, Legal, Communications, Finance, Treasury, Corporate Development, and other cross-functional teams.

• Strong ownership mindset, intellectual curiosity, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

• Proficiency with Excel, financial modeling tools, PowerPoint, Word, CRM systems, website analytics, data visualization tools, and automation or workflow-improvement technologies.

• Working knowledge of Investor Relations practices, SEC guidelines, Regulation FD, capital markets, sell-side research, and public company earnings processes.

• Demonstrated ability to improve processes, create scalable tools, strengthen data quality, and drive operating leverage across recurring workflows.

Benefits

HCA Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services

• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services

• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence

• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling

• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

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