Vice President, Finance

Vice President, Finance at Christus Health summary:

The Vice President of Finance oversees daily financial operations at a CHRISTUS Health hospital, providing leadership and strategic financial management to support hospital growth and operational efficiency. This role collaborates with multiple financial departments and senior leadership to implement budgets, financial policies, and performance analyses. The position requires extensive hospital finance experience and strong skills in budgeting, forecasting, and operational financial oversight within an acute care setting.

Summary:

Responsible for the daily financial operations of a CHRISTUS Health hospital. This position provides financial leadership at the facility level. This position is responsible for implementing and carrying out plans and programs established by CHRISTUS Health and the CHRISTUS Health hospital. Demonstrates full support of the CHRISTUS Hospital’s mission through demonstrated measurable results and conduct consistent with the mission statement and strategic plan. Provides financial management, information and guidance to the facility senior leadership team and facility leadership. Works closely with the centralized financial functions including Revenue Cycle, Accounting, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Budgeting and Analysis and Decision Support, Information Management and Materials Management.

Responsibilities:

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
• Provides proactive financial analysis capabilities, information processes, and tools for operations to enhance skills in detecting current and future performance issues.
• Analyzes strategic growth opportunities and provides business plans for discussion with recommendations.
• Reviews financial operations to ascertain whether operational efficiency and effectiveness are being attained, provides leadership and stewardship to ensure processes are effective, and takes action based on analysis to optimize financial operations.
• Works with the Budgeting and Analysis Department to prepare the facility’s Annual Operating and Capital Budget.
• Serves as a resource person or consultant to Administrator, section/department leadership on specific finance-related issues.
• Serves as hospital liaison to centralized and corporate functions, including Business Office, Accounting, Managed Care, Accounts Payable, Payroll, and Purchasing.
• Directs the ongoing implementation and monitoring of CHRISTUS Health’s and the hospital’s financial policies.
• Provides leadership and demonstrates active involvement in the community through membership on boards, community task forces, civic organizations, and other community service efforts.
• Continually manages change through taking ownership for improving processes, implementing financial processes to demonstrate stewardship and loyalty to mission.
• Demonstrates competence to perform assigned responsibilities in a manner that meets the population-specific and developmental needs of the department's members.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:

Education/Skill
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field is required.
• Master’s degree is preferred.

Experience
• Minimum of five (5) years of hospital Financial Officer and/or controller experience and/or ten (10) or more years of progressive financial operations experience in a similarly sized acute care facility.
• Demonstrated success in managing and understanding the financial functions (financial and statistical reporting, operations analysis (es), planning, forecasting, integrity and contracting) required to support the growth of an acute care hospital.
• Proven ability to develop and implement systems that address costs, quality, regulatory requirements, and resource utilization management, as well as a knowledge of operational issues.

Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications
• CPA is preferred

Keywords:

hospital finance, financial operations, budgeting and forecasting, acute care hospital, financial leadership, financial management, healthcare finance, financial analysis, hospital budgeting, financial policies