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A Brief Overview
Serves as the leader of the Financial Planning team to support leadership in strategic and tactical decision making and guide future business performance through financial reporting, analysis, insights, recommendations and guidance. May serve as the lead financial liaison for multiple business units. Builds strong working relationships and collaborates with a wide range of stakeholders. Oversees all the daily operations and functions of the Financial Planning team.

Essential Functions

Defines operational standards for providing financial support to operational leaders, organizes these activities to achieve optimum service delivery, setting high performance objectives for the team. Holds self and others accountable to meet stated objectives, outcomes, goals, timetables, and commitments, adhering to standards even in the face of unforeseen circumstances. Leads a team of finance business partners to deliver high quality solutions, identify opportunities to facilitate organizational improvement and success, and develops, recommends, and executes related strategies.

Financial Support, Reporting & Analytics

Responsible for accurate and timely internal financial reporting.
Analyzes actual results against budgets and forecasts, performs variance analysis to explain changes in performance, and makes recommendations for improvements.
Analyzes financial data to identify trends, anomalies, and deviations, and recommends strategies for improvement to increase efficiency, accuracy, and profitability.
Identify and communicate to senior leadership financial risks and strategies to mitigate such risks.
Researches, analyzes and synthesizes data from multiple sources into business information to support enterprise initiatives and objectives.
Supports executive leadership on ad hoc analyses, special projects and board meeting preparation.
Responsible for development and distribution of reports and dashboards for leadership to support decision-making and communicating financial insights.
Develops and delivers presentations to leadership.

Financial Stewardship Leads business-partnering role with leaders to deliver positive results

Responsible for the development and operationalizing the enterprise financial stewardship program, including flex targets, variance commentary, and reporting to drive optimal financial performance.
Responsible for financial management and productivity reporting programs, including communicating financial results, metrics and actual to target variances.
Leads process of gathering variance commentary and supporting operational leaders in developing and implementing improvement opportunities.
Research and pursue best practices for metrics, tools, processes, etc. to increase overall engagement and enable stakeholders to better manage the financial performance of their business.
Develops and delivers financial education to organizational leaders

Business and Strategic Planning

Supports leadership in evaluating strategic objectives.
Develops financial models and analysis to be used in the strategic planning process and development of business plans including but not limited to pro-formas, ROI, NPV, and IRR.
Performs and leads what-if analyses, as well as analyzes the financial impact of changes in business and new business opportunities/acquisitions.

Budget, Forecasting, and Projections

Leads annual and flex budget and planning cycles in partnership with the Budget Program Manager.
Develops, recommends, and provides input to budget and forecast assumptions, targets, and projections (volume, revenue, expense, UOS, and FTEs)
Develops and recommends budget assumptions, targets, and projections.
Leads discussions with operational leaders and stakeholders to develop budget targets for their business units.
Analyzes projections with respect to various operating strategies, targets and other metrics or objectives.
Analyzes actual results to understand variances, revising projections as appropriate.
Develops and maintains financial models and forecasts to predict future outcomes, considering economic and business trends and past performance.

FTE Requisitions and Labor Benchmarking

Recommends and supports implementation of improvement opportunities for the FTE requisition and labor benchmarking processes, in partnership with the Labor & Productivity Program Manager and Workforce Optimization Council
Leads review, analysis, education, and communication of labor benchmarking process, results, and targets to stakeholders and operational leaders.
Supports operational leaders in identification of labor efficiency opportunities and achieving labor targets

Financial Planning Systems

Coordinates operations of financial planning systems and reporting platforms
Manages the maintenance and utilization of financial planning systems in collaboration with the Mgr Financial Decision Support, Labor & Productivity Program Manager, and Budget Program Manager.
Stays current on latest technologies and tools to support effective financial planning processes and recommends new and improved functionality and tools.

Operational/Financial Management Responsible for the implementation and execution of business plans or activities for the team. May assist in the development of business plans.

Makes decisions guided by the business plan and resource availability that impacts service levels and the teams ability to meet objectives.
Analyzes processes and procedures and makes recommendations and/or decisions on guidelines for daily processes/activities within department. May recommend policy changes related to the department. Implements new or revised policies, processes, and procedures within the work area.
Applies business and management expertise to identify problems/opportunities, determine solutions, and measure results.
Ensures compliance with quality assurance, safety practices, policies, regulatory, and legal requirements.
Serves as liaison with other childrens hospitals, local hospitals, and professional organizations to gather and exchange information and keep abreast of changes in health care.
Maintains knowledge of current trends and developments in the field by reading appropriate books, journals and other literature and attending seminars to develop business intelligence which can be used to support strategic operations.

Personnel Management

Selects/hires employees and trains and/or oversees the training on job related tasks.
Conducts employee performance management duties including completion and delivery of performance evaluations, setting goals, dissemination of information, coaching, addressing performance issues/routine correction actions, and recommending termination of employment.
Makes salary recommendations.
Submits notifications for personnel actions (e.g., status changes, terminations).
Makes recommendations for human resource needs. Operational/Financial Management
Responsible for the implementation and execution of business plans or activities for the department. May assist in the development of business plans.
Makes decisions guided by the business plan and resource availability that impacts service levels and the teams ability to meet objectives.
Analyzes processes and procedures and makes recommendations and/or decisions on guidelines for daily processes/activities within department. May recommend policy changes related to the department. Implements new or revised policies, processes, and procedures within the work area.
Develops the annual budget, monitors and prepares budget variance reports for the department.
Applies business and management expertise to identify problems/opportunities, determine solutions, and measure results.
Ensures compliance with quality assurance, safety practices, policies, regulatory, and legal requirements.

Education Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree Bachelors degree in business or healthcare administration, management information systems, finance or related field Required
Master's Degree MBA or related field Preferred

Experience Qualifications

Minimum of 8 years of business experience in finance, financial analysis, planning, and reporting, including knowledge of healthcare reimbursement, financial planning and benchmarking methodologies, forecasting and modeling, physician revenue modeling, and financial planning technologies. Required and
5 years experience working in a healthcare setting Required
Experience with Stratajazz, CHA Prospect, Oracle, and EPIC Preferred

Skills and Abilities

Ability to work independently (High proficiency)
Consensus building (High proficiency)
Interpersonal skills (High proficiency)
Leadership skills (High proficiency)
Presentation skills (High proficiency)
Strategic planning (High proficiency)
Critical thinking skills (High proficiency)
Ability to work with tight deadlines and identify priorities in a fast-paced, highly visible environment while maintaining attention to detail. (High proficiency)
Fosters creativity, innovation and divergent thinking in self and others. (High proficiency)
Ability to effectively implement change. (High proficiency)
Demonstrated experience teaching, mentoring and developing skills sets, where appropriate. (High proficiency)
Ability to take complex analytical data and synthesize it in reportable and understandable context. (High proficiency)
Strategic and forward-thinking (High proficiency)
Flexible and creative (High proficiency)
Project Management (High proficiency)

Licenses and Certifications

Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Upon Hire Preferred

Childrens is an equal opportunity employer, embracing and valuing the unique strengths and differences of people. We cultivate an inclusive environment of respect and trust where we all belong. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.