Director Finance

HonorHealth is seeking a Director of Finance to lead financial operations for its network from a on-site site in Mesa, AZ. This role centers on planning, budgeting, and performance analysis to safeguard fiscal health and drive strategic initiatives across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Oversees financial operations and strategies within the assigned area of focus.
• Contributes to the network's financial health by providing financial guidance and managing day-to-day activities, including financial strategy and planning.
• Develops and implements financial strategies to support the network's goals and objectives.
• Creates financial models to inform decisions on new services, market expansion, and service growth.
• Partners with senior leaders to develop long-term financial plans.
• Provides continuous improvement guidance across all finance functions including accounting, financial systems, internal controls, financial analysis, budgeting, labor productivity, supply chain, and reporting.
• Manages and mentors finance professionals.
• Supports and models a service-oriented culture focused on employee engagement, clinical quality, patient safety, service excellence, fiscal discipline, and patient experience.
• Builds and sustains effective collegial relationships with physicians, leaders, and peers across the network to enable proper financial governance.
• Maintains collaborative spirit and fosters strong partnering relationships.
• Gathers, interprets, and evaluates financial and key metrics impacting financial performance.
• Prepares and presents key financial metrics and indicators.
• Provides insights on financial performance and trends.
• Conducts financial modeling and forecasting to support long-term initiatives.
• Leads budgeting process within the assigned area, by working closely with department leaders to develop annual budgets.
• Monitors budgets and variances, providing analysis and recommendations for improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance - Required
• 4 years of healthcare-based experience - Required
• 8 years of Accounting/Analytics and/or Payor-based reimbursement experience - Required

Essential Functions

• Supervises, motivates, and manages direct reports that assist leadership in achieving financial and operational performance objectives and expectations including revenue growth, operating margin targets, effective expense management and overall efficiency measures.
• Utilizes analytical processes to ensure initiatives are achieved and opportunities for performance improvement in operational performance, clinical excellence, patient satisfaction, and employee engagement are realized.
• Oversees financial and analytical expertise and assistance to leadership and Department Managers by effectively preparing and communicating financial information as requested.
• Facilitates monthly operating reviews of financial performance, works with Managers on action plans as needed to get financial metrics back on track.
• Debriefs financial and operations leadership routinely on the monitoring of Financial Reporting, highlighting key trends and issues.
• Validates to leadership the financial impact of strategy, planning and business development initiatives as compiled by the corporate planning function for the operations area and/or service lines.
• Provides plan tracking to monitor if expected results are being realized.
• Partners with Integration, Quality and Continuous Improvement resources to balance prioritization of financial initiatives with those for clinical quality or patient experience.
• Helps interpret the financial impact of these initiatives and track impact to the financials.
• Leads the development, implementation and monitoring of operational and capital budgets at the facility.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.

Licenses and Certifications

• Non Clinical CPA - Certified Public Accountant Certified Public Accountant (CPA) - Preferred