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+ GENERAL SUMMARY

+ This role has primary responsibility for building and expanding CHKD’s financial planning and analysis (FP&A) initiatives, including supporting organizational change, empowering leaders to make data-driven decisions, and standardizing and streamlining analytics and modeling efforts. The role will manage and collaborate with a team of finance business partners, along with other associated stakeholders and leadership, to develop and achieve these initiatives. Reports to departmental leadership.

+ ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

+ Lead organizational long-range financial planning, scenario modeling, and capital allocation strategies to support sustainable growth.

+ Direct the annual budgeting process, engaging and educating stakeholders across service lines, departments, and locations to align budgeting with long-range forecasting and capital planning to ensure financial sustainability.

+ Cultivate business partnerships with leaders across service lines and departments.

+ Translate complex financial data into actionable insights, build trust, and identify return on investment (ROI) opportunities in collaboration with clinical, operational, and IT stakeholders.

+ Collaborate with the Strategy & Planning team to develop financial models and proformas that support service line expansion, market growth, and strategic initiatives.

+ Deliver timely and insightful monthly reporting—including dashboards, KPIs, labor productivity metrics, and financial metrics—to support decision-making.

+ Evaluate and prioritize capital investments in clinical technology, facilities, and digital health initiatives ensuring alignment with strategic goals and ROI.

+ Maintain healthcare industry expertise in Medicare, Medicaid and commercial reimbursement methodologies, along with experience in labor forecasting, including provider productivity modeling, FTE demand planning, and clinical staffing optimization.

+ Champion financial automation and digital transformation. Demonstrate hands-on expertise with EPM and BI tools (e.g., Strata, Power BI, Epic Cogito) to enhance FP&A capabilities, support cost transparency, track margin improvement initiatives, and enable data-driven decision-making. Build advanced financial models and apply predictive analytics to optimize performance.

+ Serve as a strategic advisor to the CFO, delivering clear, compelling financial narratives. Prepare executive-level presentations, support governance presentations, and oversee external financial surveys.

+ Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

+ Leads, manages, coaches, and trains a team or department, provides guidance, support, and mentors to ensure optimal performance and productivity.

+ Oversees the recruitment, hiring, team/department orientation, performance appraisals and disciplinary actions including up to termination processes for a team or department.

+ Perform all other duties as assigned.

+ LICENSES AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

+ Required Licenses and/or Certifications

+ N/A

+ Preferred Licenses and/or Certifications

+ N/A

+ MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

+ Required Education and Experience

+ Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, or another relevant field required

+ 8+ years of experience in a finance, planning, or analytics role required

+ Preferred Education and Experience

+ MBA, CFA, or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or another relevant field preferred

+ 12+ years of progressive experience in finance, including experience in an FP&A department preferred

+ Experience working in-house at a large hospital or health system preferred

+ 5+ years in a leadership role preferred

+ Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

+ Financial planning

+ Financial modeling

+ Data analytics & visualization (preferably with Power BI or adaptable skills)

+ Coaching & team development

+ Effective and adaptable communication skills (ability to “translate” complex financial topics between finance and non-finance stakeholders)

+ Budgeting and planning (specifically within a healthcare provider is preferred)

+ Stakeholder management (preferably with senior leaders)

+ Database management tools

+ Financial software and reporting applications

+ Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

+ Healthcare finance

+ Healthcare industry trends

+ Hospital reimbursement methodologies and financial principles

+ Accounting

+ Large-scale healthcare analytics

+ Coding - SQL, python, and/or other relevant coding languages

+ WORKING CONDITIONS

+ Normal office environment with little exposure to excessive noise, dust, temperature and the like.

+ PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

+ Click here to view physical requirements. (https://www.chkd.org/uploadedFiles/Documents/Employees/Category%20A%20Jobs.pdf)

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