Finance Director

The Finance Director, Stanyan Hospital supports the Community Network Chief Financial Officer in achieving strategic revenue growth and governance, operational analytical support to monitor resource utilization, operational action plan lead, and drive technological enhancements. Partners with operations in creating and analyzing volume budget. Works in conjunction with business unit leadership and operational partners to track performance to budget and provide recommendations and insight into course correction. Provides business case guidance and ensures goals and priorities are clearly articulated/defined and in line with organizational goals. Heavily involved in the maintenance and creation of service line assignment logic and service line related reporting. Flexible and willing to perform other projects/ analyses as necessary.

The Finance Director, Stanyan Hospital will be responsible for providing financial analysis and reporting in support of the UCSF Community Network. Reporting to the CFO of Community Network, this position will lead the following:

FINANCIAL PLANNING - OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET

• Delivery of business line budget and strategic leadership & governance of direct cost centers primarily associated with the Community Network business line
• Collaboration with the shared service and entity finance leaders to develop, modify, and
  enhance reporting, ad-hoc queries, and dashboards useful for the budgeting, planning, and financial management of operations
• Coordinating, prioritizing, and reviewing business line capital projects

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL REPORTING

• Interpret and analyze business and service line reports to inform operations and strategy and deliver financial results and board materials to leadership
• Interpret and analyze Community Network services business and service line reports to inform operations and
  strategy
• Financial performance management of direct cost centers heavily associated with a specific business line
• Benchmark analysis and report review for service lines and business partners to guide in action
  planning and budget targets

FINANCIAL AND STRATEGIC INVESTMENT

• Strategic leadership and governance for major investments

COST ACCOUNTING

• Provide data and costing governance to meet business line reporting needs and to set annual project priorities
• Provide governance to meet business line reporting needs and set annual project priorities

The successful candidate will work closely with senior leadership, medical center and faculty practice finance teams, decision support professionals, department managers, and outside consultants. Further, the candidate must be able to thrive and succeed in a changing environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means the candidate is not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives but can be hands-on and achieve the final results. The candidate will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus other priorities. An ability to take sparse information and assist teams to successfully break down projects, initiatives and strategic priorities is expected to deliver them in a successful and timely manner. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent, and leadership are essential to success in this role.
The flexibility to orient and work at all UCSF Medical Center locations is required.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or other related field
• Minimum 7 years of experience in finance/budgeting or Public Accounting with a focus on hospital clients
• Understanding of finance in an academic medical center environment: financial statements, volume-based forecasting process, and hospital-faculty practice relationship
• Strong leadership, relationship building, influencing and negotiation skills, including the ability to work effectively across all levels of management and staff
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with high proficiency, both verbally and in writing, in both technical language and layman's terms    
• Must be a team player with proven ability to interact well with all levels of management and staff
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with little guidance using good analytical and political judgment in dealing with a wide variety of administrators, physicians and managers in an academic healthcare institution    
• Demonstrated ability to quickly synthesize information and develop recommendation for senior leaders    
• Demonstrated ability to influence thinking or gain acceptance of others in sensitive situations    
• Demonstrated ability to think conceptually and to formulate pragmatic and effective solutions    
• Demonstrated ability to achieve results in a virtual and matrixed team environment    
• Experience developing and mentoring staff    
• Self-motivated, results-oriented, demonstrating strong initiative    
• Ability to work under time constraints, meeting deadlines and schedules; setting priorities; and working with detailed information    
• Computer proficiency in an established financial reporting tool; experience with EPSi or another hospital decision support software application is desirable
• Excellent Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills
• Must be flexible 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's or other advanced degree