Director, Strategic Finance

Overview

This role serves as a senior finance partner to business and executive leaders, delivering insights that improve decision-making, optimize performance, and support growth and scalability. The position focuses on enterprise financial insights, long-range planning, evaluating growth initiatives, and translating complex financial and operational data into actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and maintenance of complex financial models for existing and prospective risk contracts, including assumptions related to:
  • attribution
  • Per Member Per Month (PMPM) revenue
  • medical expense trends
  • quality initiatives
  • reimbursement models
  • performance scenarios
• Serve as a strategic finance partner to executive, market, and functional leaders by translating financial and operational data into clear insights, recommendations, and decision-support materials.
• Lead scenario modeling, risk analysis, and ROI assessments to support enterprise decision-making, growth initiatives, partnership opportunities, new programs, and performance improvement efforts.
• Contribute to strategic planning cycles, including annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial outlooks—ensuring assumptions are well-supported, clearly communicated, and aligned with organizational priorities.
• Develop executive, Board, investor, and senior leadership materials, including strategic analyses, financial updates, performance narratives, key performance indicators, and recommendations for action.
• Partner closely with Actuarial, Analytics, Operations, Market Leadership, and Finance teams to interpret claims data, evaluate cost drivers, monitor medical expense and MLR trends, and assess financial performance against benchmarks.
• Lead cross-functional financial analysis for new programs, partnerships, market opportunities, reimbursement arrangements, and value-based care initiatives, ensuring financial implications are clearly understood before decisions are made.
• Design, enhance, and scale finance processes, reporting tools, and performance management practices that improve the flow of financial insights across internal stakeholders.
• Perform other related responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business, accounting, or related field is required. Master’s-level degree considered a plus.
• 5+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, consulting, corporate finance and/or corporate strategy experience in a high-performing, fast-paced organization.
• Demonstrated experience developing complex financial models for forecasting business performance, evaluating financial scenarios, and projecting project ROI or business impact.
• Experience developing presentation materials for executive and board of director audiences.
• Strong ability to translate complex financial, operational, and healthcare data into clear insights, recommendations, and business decisions.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with senior leaders in a matrixed environment.
• Able to travel to Nashville, TN and/or other locations on an occasional basis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with SQL, Tableau, or other healthcare analytics tools.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base pay range: $145,200.00 - $172,850.00.
• Compensation considers factors including experience, education, skills, licensure and certifications, and organizational needs.
• Base pay is one piece of a total rewards program, which may include short-term incentives and a comprehensive benefits package.

Location

• Nashville, TN and/or other locations (occasional travel required).