Job Details

• 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

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