Overview
This role is responsible for implementing the Finance Roadmap (strategic transformation plan) by leading high-visibility finance transformation initiatives sponsored by the VP & CFO Care Delivery. The manager will work with leaders across Finance and adjacent areas to identify and execute strategic initiatives that improve processes, enhance systems, and realign Finance to realize opportunities.
Responsibilities
Transformation
- Participate in finance transformation projects, from assessment through implementation.
- Establish key metrics and facilitate working team meetings to ensure Finance Roadmap results are met.
- Identify, help mitigate, and manage risks and issues throughout transformation initiatives.
- Develop and deliver transformation content and support success of Finance and partners.
- Serve as the finance arm of the organization’s performance improvement program, supporting cross-functional performance improvement efforts grounded in sound financial analysis and reporting.
- Act as a financial/operational lead for strategic and transformation initiatives.
Integration
- Coordinate across Finance and the broader organization so decisions/results are properly recognized across the business for planning, forecasting, and other purposes.
- Build partnerships among finance teams (Decision Support and FP&A) and technology stakeholders (e.g., Strata, HealthQlix).
- Align the Financial Roadmap to operational requirements to ensure performance is insightful and accurate and that end-users can partner with Finance under new tools and processes.
- Create documentation around current data system capabilities, functions, and limitations to avoid reporting gaps.
Innovation
- Support positioning Finance as forward-thinking and able to adapt to internal/external changes.
- Recommend adjustments to the Roadmap using best practices and cost-benefit analysis for proposed changes (internal or external).
- Drive automation and efficient processes to increase productivity and add redundancy across Finance.
Requirements
Education
- Master’s degree in Business (Finance, Accounting, Economics), Public Health, Public Administration or Health Administration
Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience with Healthcare Finance, Finance Transformation, Organizational Transformation or Strategy Consulting
Knowledge, Skills, and Qualifications
- Strategic systems thinking with strong financial and technical skills; analytical ability; sound judgment; strong implementation focus.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to present to multiple levels of staff from Executive to staff (clinical and non-clinical).
- Strong capability with Excel and PowerPoint, including creating presentations to communicate and influence senior system leadership.
- Ability to create, own, and modify detailed Excel models to conduct what-if analyses and support analytical work.
- Demonstrated analytical, project management, and organizational skills.
- Proven ability to manage multiple initiatives, identify and prioritize issues, and meet aggressive deadlines.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and foster trust across a complex variety of departments and specialties, including with clinicians when indicated.
- Superior project management skills, including the ability to oversee colleagues managing projects.
- High degree of accountability; intellectual curiosity; willingness to accept new responsibilities.
- Ability to operate independently with good judgment and, at times, with minimal supervision.
- Proven ability to interface with senior leaders and assume a leadership role within projects, including working with varying levels and roles of management and professionals.
- Strong data integrity and analytic accuracy.
- Ability to coach and develop a diverse team.
- Understanding of financial and accounting metrics and reporting as they relate to managing a complex business and informing decision-making.
- Ability to use organizational values as the basis for decision-making.
- Must follow established hospital infection control and safety procedures as applicable to the job.
Preferred Qualifications
Compensation & Benefits
- Compensation range: $122,000.00–$177,000.00
- Total compensation includes benefits (medical, dental, vision, pharmacy), discretionary annual bonuses and merit increases, Flexible Spending Accounts, 403(b) savings matches, paid time off, career advancement opportunities, and resources to support employee and family well-being.
Location
- Boston-area data is used to inform the compensation range; the range is subject to modification based on geographic location.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans