Senior Director, Finance

Overview

This remote leadership role supports enterprise finance transformation across the University of Virginia and UVA Health. The Senior Director, Finance leads complex, enterprise-wide initiatives that strengthen financial operations, modernize systems, and advance the One UVA vision.

Reporting to senior UVA Health finance leadership, this position operates at the intersection of finance, accounting, treasury, technology, data, and organizational transformation.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise finance transformation connected to One UVA, Workday, and broader financial modernization efforts.
• Guide cross-functional teams to simplify, standardize, automate, and strengthen financial processes across the enterprise.
• Provide finance leadership for the implementation, stabilization, optimization, and enhancement of Workday financial functionality.
• Translate complex financial and operational requirements into practical system and process solutions, accounting for upstream and downstream impacts.
• Identify and resolve system limitations, integration challenges, data issues, process gaps, and control considerations.
• Establish scalable governance structures, operating processes, controls, and measures of success.
• Lead initiatives related to general ledger reconciliation, financial data integrity, and data flow across systems and organizational entities.
• Partner with Finance, Accounting, Treasury, Information Technology, Tax, and operational leaders to improve the quality, timeliness, and usability of financial information.
• Support stronger treasury projections, cash and liquidity reporting, forecasting methodologies, and integration between financial systems and treasury processes.
• Lead the design of a comprehensive pan-enterprise intercompany framework that strengthens accounting, reporting, reconciliation, and controls while reducing unnecessary complexity.
• Facilitate decisions where accounting requirements, operational needs, technology capabilities, data structures, and organizational responsibilities intersect.
• Anticipate broader financial, operational, technological, and organizational effects of proposed changes.
• Develop executive-level communications that translate complex financial and technical matters into clear business decisions.
• Own initiatives from problem definition and solution design through implementation, stabilization, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience, including 6+ years of formal management experience.
• Licensure: None, unless otherwise specified in job posting.

Preferred Qualifications

• A related master’s degree.
• CPA licensure.

Physical Demands

• Primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers.
• Occasional travel some distance to attend meetings and programs.

Compensation & Benefits

Pay Range

• $138,424.00 - $276,849.00 annually
• Individual compensation will be determined by the selected candidate’s qualifications, previous work experience, and/or education.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package: medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous paid time off
• Retirement savings
• Long-term and short-term disability
• Health savings plans and flexible spending accounts
• Certification and education support

Location

Remote