Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confidential is a behavioral healthcare company seeking a strategic and operationally focused finance leader to drive financial planning, forecasting, operational analytics, budgeting, and executive decision support across the organization. The Director of FP&A and Strategic Finance will serve as a key business partner to ownership and leadership, creating financial visibility and actionable insights that support growth and profitability.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic financial advisor to ownership, executive leadership, and operational leaders
- Lead financial planning and analysis efforts across multiple sites, programs, and service lines
- Develop financial models and operational analyses to support new programs, acquisitions, expansions, and strategic initiatives
- Identify opportunities to improve profitability, labor efficiency, operational performance, and cash flow
- Provide executive-level insights and recommendations based on financial and operational trends
- Lead the annual budgeting process across all entities, locations, and service lines
- Develop rolling forecasts, scenario planning models, and variance analyses
- Create scalable forecasting processes and financial planning tools
- Monitor and report on key operational and financial performance indicators including census, labor utilization, reimbursement, staffing ratios, and profitability
- Drive accountability and consistency in forecasting and budget management across departments
- Establish standardized financial and operational reporting definitions across the organization
- Develop executive dashboards, KPI scorecards, and recurring reporting packages for leadership
- Improve data accuracy, reporting consistency, and financial visibility across the organization
- Partner cross-functionally with operations, billing, HR, and clinical leadership to ensure reliable reporting and actionable insights
- Analyze trends related to census, staffing, labor costs, reimbursement, and site performance
- Partner with revenue cycle and billing teams to improve collections, reduce denials, and optimize reimbursement performance
- Analyze payer reimbursement trends, contract performance, and service line profitability
- Support strategic financial analysis related to payer negotiations and reimbursement opportunities
- Provide strategic direction and financial leadership to accounting and finance team members
- Partner closely with the Controller to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, accounting operations, and internal controls
- Lead through influence while building accountability, operational discipline, and scalable financial processes
- Simplify complex financial data into actionable information for operational and executive leaders
- Lead finance-related process improvement and automation initiatives
- Improve financial systems, reporting tools, and data accessibility
- Develop scalable reporting structures and internal controls to support organizational growth
- Support ERP optimization and reporting enhancements
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related field
- 7+ years of progressive leadership experience in FP&A, operational finance, strategic finance, or healthcare finance
- Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, KPI reporting, and operational analytics
- Healthcare experience required; behavioral health or multi-site healthcare experience strongly preferred
- Advanced Excel and ERP/reporting systems experience required
- Strong executive presence and ability to communicate financial insights to non-financial leaders
- Behavioral health, residential treatment, PRTF, RTF, PHP, autism services, or multi-site healthcare experience
- Experience supporting acquisitions, integrations, or rapid organizational growth
- MBA, FP&A leadership, healthcare analytics, or strategic finance experience strongly preferred
- CPA not required
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