Region Chief Financial Officer - South

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an 881-bed quaternary care academic medical center that is a joint venture between Baylor College of Medicine and CHI St. Luke’s Health. Located in the Texas Medical Center, the hospital is the home of the Texas Heart® Institute, a cardiovascular research and education institution founded in 1962 by Denton A. Cooley, MD. The hospital was the first facility in Texas and the Southwest designated a Magnet® hospital for Nursing Excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, receiving the award five consecutive times. Baylor St. Luke’s also has three community emergency centers offering adult and pediatric care for the Greater Houston area.

Join CommonSpirit Health as our next Senior Regional Finance Executive, where you'll be instrumental in shaping the financial performance of our vital South Region. In this key role, you'll act as a senior regional finance executive, partnering closely with Operations and Strategy to drive critical decision-making and performance evaluation, while also responsible for tailored financial analysis to meet specific regional needs. You'll serve as the regional lead for preparing budgets and forecasts aligned with Enterprise goals, and collaborate with Enterprise finance teams to ensure our region effectively leverages centralized transactional finance resources like Accounts Payable and Fixed Asset accounting.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities

1. Act as strategic business partner to divisional leadership and foster close collaboration between divisional and Enterprise level finance teams
2. Oversee development of budgets according to National targets and monitor adherence
3. Analyze divisional financial performance and develop improvement plans as appropriate
4. Leverage Enterprise level resources fully for transactional activity (e.g., accounts payable, Fixed Asset and Foundation/Grant accounting, payroll etc.)
5. Ensure division complies with Enterprise established definitions and policies
6. Ensure data and analytic transparency on divisional performance, trends and insights to appropriate Enterprise teams 
7. Monitor adherence to budgets and division progress with respect to key Enterprise initiatives (e.g. COE Initiative, etc.)
8. Lead interactions with local Board and Board Committees on financial matter
9. Provide high level financial input on strategic initiatives
10. Lead division finance teams when developing new programs, launching initiatives, planning and managing deals, and/or improving services for divisional teams
11. Provide divisional oversight of the revenue cycle, managed care, supply chain Functions
12. Review & monitor divisional JV arrangements
13. Coordinate divisional treasury Functions/requirements with National office
14. Act as division representative on Enterprise Finance Operations Leadership Council (“FOLC”)
15. Manage direct reports including Divisional VP of Finance and Division Business Partners including hiring, evaluation, and coaching

Required Education and Experience

• Master’s degree, ideally in business/finance
• Fifteen (15) years’ experience preferably in healthcare

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training

1. Strategic mindset
2. Deep expertise in Financial management and Accounting
3. Experience with performance management
4. Understanding of CHI’s service lines
5. Superior leadership, management, and communication skills
6. Ability to drive initiatives and achieve goals in a matrix environment
7. Effective collaboration and negotiation skills

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